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Hi guys,

so my Dad is looking for a tablet and I, thinking it would be easy, promised to help him.

He needs:

- a screen of at least 13 inches.

- around 128GB of storage

- (good) pencil capability

 

Budget would be around 1000€, the cheaper, the better 🙂
Thanks a lot!

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the market of windows tablets is very thin, and so is the market for 13 inch tablets.

 

your best bet is one of those 360°-style laptops (the ones where the keyboard flips around) and specificly look for one that comes with a touch pen.

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3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

the market of windows tablets is very thin, and so is the market for 13 inch tablets.

 

your best bet is one of those 360°-style laptops (the ones where the keyboard flips around) and specificly look for one that comes with a touch pen.

yeah, that's what I found as well. 360° would be something like one of these lenovo yoga books, right?

 

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1 minute ago, jollyjumper said:

yeah, that's what I found as well. 360° would be something like one of these lenovo yoga books, right?

 

i'm personally not fond of lenovo, but yes.

 

i have an asus vivobook i'm very happy with.

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your options for a windows tablet these days are thin but...

 

Lenovo, Asus and of course the Surface.

This link i s the Microsoft store and has the all the available options available.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/

 

Is cost is a factor for your dad, Android tablets are a good investment as well, look into Samsung they make good tablets with a nice pen.

https://www.samsung.com/us/tablets/

 

*edit I should say I have both a Surface Pro 6 with a pen and a Samsung Tab S6E and I use both for different situations but I recommend if apple is not an option for you.

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4 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

your options for a windows tablet these days are thin but...

 

Lenovo, Asus and of course the Surface.

This link i s the Microsoft store and has the all the available options available.

 

Is cost is a factor for your dad, Android tablets are a good investment as well, look into Samsung they make good tablets with a nice pen.

 

*edit I should say I have both a Surface Pro 6 with a pen and a Samsung Tab S6E and I use both for different situations but I recommend if apple is not an option for you.

oh right, forgot to mention that. It has to be windows due to software he uses.

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Just now, jollyjumper said:

oh right, forgot to mention that. It has to be windows due to software he uses.

I recommend the Surface then, but as I mentioned Lenovo and Asus has options as well.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/

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Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

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Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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