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kelvinhall05
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OK, so I have around $60 left in my "Christmas budget", but I don't know what to get. A lot of people recommend SSDs, but my HDD is plenty fast for me (don't judge). I kinda want a cheap Android tablet to mess around with custom ROMs and shit (I was thinking an 8GB Amazon Fire 7). Thoughts? Anything else you'd suggest? Keep in mind this is Candian dollars, not American. Thanks!

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It depends. I would go for the SSD as I am not interested in tablets. But if you are happy with a HDD then I see no harm in a tablet, you could get both seconds hand but there is a chance that they would both be terrible. 

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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If you don't already have one, I'd get the SSD. Trust me, you'll see a lot of benefits. Also, those Kindle's aren't really powerful at all and the verison of "Android" is super stripped down and Amazon-ish. 

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4 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

It depends. I would go for the SSD as I am not interested in tablets. But if you are happy with a HDD then I see no harm in a tablet, you could get both seconds hand but there is a chance that they would both be terrible. 

If I did get a tablet, what would you recommend?

 

3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

If you don't already have one, I'd get the SSD. Trust me, you'll see a lot of benefits. 

I have one in my laptop. It's nice, but not something I would pay a lot for. I'll stick with an HDD until prices come down.

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Just now, Nicnac said:

I'd get the ssd, too but only because I wouldn't have any use for a cheapo tablet...

Well, I have an iPhone 6, but I can't really put custom ROMs on that :P 

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Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

Well, I have an iPhone 6, but I can't really put custom ROMs on that :P 

If you want to have something to mess around with sure Y not. I have an old athlon pc that I use for stuff like that and an ultra-low powered board with a celeron if I need a system to play around with. 

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1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

If I did get a tablet, what would you recommend?

It depends if you want to go second hand or not. But some general advice is just get the most powerful one you can. 

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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If you want to have something to mess around with sure Y not. I have an old athlon pc that I use for stuff like that and an ultra-low powered board with a celeron if I need a system to play around with. 

Maybe. If you'd be willing to ship it to me I'd appreciate that haha

 

 

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Maybe. If you'd be willing to ship it to me I'd appreciate that haha

 

 

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You can have the celeron board haha. Cost me like 70 bucks (needs ram though and a psu and an hdd). But its surprisingly capable. Dunno how much shipping over the rainbow is though :/ 

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1 minute ago, fixitnow said:

It depends if you want to go second hand or not. But some general advice is just get the most powerful one you can. 

Probably not second hand since the Candian used market sucks (or at least in my area).

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38 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

You can have the celeron board haha. Cost me like 70 bucks (needs ram though and a psu and an hdd). But its surprisingly capable. Dunno how much shipping over the rainbow is though :/ 

Well, it would actually be to London, Ontario. I'd half to talk it over with my parents if you really were OK with doing it, though.

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4 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Well, it would actually be to London, Ontario. I'd half to talk it over with my parents if you really were OK with doing it, though.

ugh if it were europe definitely but i can't afford shipping to US sorry :/ that is hella expensive and you would probably have to pay crazy import tax or something...

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Just now, Nicnac said:

ugh if it were europe definitely but i can't afford shipping to US sorry :/ that is hella expensive and you would probably have to pay crazy import tax or something...

Haha, no worries ;)

 

Someone on here told me there are no import fees on electronics. Not trying to change your mind since I'd do the same thing, but just saying :) 

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