Best tablet for the buck?

[Big Papa Smurf]

Excluding the SP3... Which may or may not be out of my range, what is the best bang-for-your-buck tablet? Any range up to the $500 mark($499+tax etc).
Please, give me your opinions. No preference on anything except price.

 

[someone2639]

The HP stream is only $99. So is the Dell venue 8 pro and Toshiba encore mini 2. But know what's your usage is best for recommendations.

 

[WillysJeepMan]

The HP stream is only $99. So is the Dell venue 8 pro and Toshiba encore mini 2. But know what's your usage is best for recommendations.

Where is the Dell Venue 8 Pro selling for $99?

 

[someone2639]

Where is the Dell Venue 8 Pro selling for $99?

I didn't write that (did I?)

 

[cj-m]

Ebay and Amazon (occasionally) have Surface Pro 1 up for grabs. I have been eyeing those out for the past few weeks. you can get them for approx $ 400.

 

[WillysJeepMan]

I didn't write that.

You wrote:

"The HP stream is only $99. So is the Dell venue 8 pro and Toshiba encore mini 2. But know what's your usage is best for recommendations."

I read that as the HP Stream is $99 and so is the DV8P and Toshiba Encore mini 2. If that's not what you meant, then I apologize for the confusion.

 

[Kebero]

Excluding the SP3... Which may or may not be out of my range, what is the best bang-for-your-buck tablet? Any range up to the $500 mark($499+tax etc).
Please, give me your opinions. No preference on anything except price.

Best bang for your buck really depends on what you are looking for.

 

[etad putta]

Winbook TW700 $59.99 at microcenter, open box for $47.96.

 

[Big Papa Smurf]

I don't really use a ton of office things. Mostly something for around the house. Social media games Skype etc.looking for something with some life expectancy of over 2 years. I had purchased an Asus t100 for $150(weird since I only see them for $300+) and one day, half the touch screen stopped working.
Prefer something with a detachable physical keyboard, HDMI and 64GB... If possible... With so many options I could spend hours searching, but I'd like to see what the community suggests to narrow my search a bit. I hear good things about the Dell Venue Pro 8.

 

[someone2639]

I don't really use a ton of office things. Mostly something for around the house. Social media games Skype etc.looking for something with some life expectancy of over 2 years. I had purchased an Asus t100 for $150(weird since I only see them for $300+) and one day, half the touch screen stopped working.
Prefer something with a detachable physical keyboard, HDMI and 64GB... If possible... With so many options I could spend hours searching, but I'd like to see what the community suggests to narrow my search a bit. I hear good things about the Dell Venue Pro 8.

If you don't care about desktop apps, then the Nokia Lumia 2520 will do. If you don't, I don't think there's a cheap pro tablet with a detachable keyboard...

 

[HeyCori]

Could try the $300 Pavilion x2. It has 1-micro HDMI, 10 inch 720p screen, 32GB with SD slot, detachable keyboard (not sure if sold together or separately).

HP Pavilion x2 - 10-k010nr | HP? Official Store

It's a little heavy though and there's some bloat that needs to be uninstalled.


Acer has a 10 inch for $300, mostly the same specs except it has 64GBs.

Acer Aspire Switch 10 SW5-012 64GB Signature Edition 2 in 1 PC

 

[xandros9]

Many 8" tablets are similar (I'm talking the 2 GB ones that were around in the beginning) and the Venue 8 Pro has always been available for cheap and whatnot compared to the others.

That was my choice, I recommend getting it if you want a compact 8 incher. Although Micro Center's Winbook's look quite nice too.

For larger ones, ASUS has some nice Transformers that are worth looking at, same with Dell with its Venue 11 Pro.

 

[emiel1976]

I searched the web and YouTube for 2 weeks. I new what I wanted for a screen, ram and CPU and looked around what fitted best with my wishes. On YouTube I looked to reviews and this way I made my decision.
First find out what you do with it and want to have on the tablet, than looked for the tablets that have that and compare them.

 

[GaryCole]

I know at the goodguyselectronics many tablets with a good price, especially Polariod 8" Internet Tablet pta8000, I've bought it for my nephew

 

[anon(9057135)]

HP stream 7. It's my first Windows Tablet so of course I'll recommend it. ��

 

[horseybob]

Tablet-wise, have 2 HP Touchpad dual booted and overclocked, an ElitePad 900 (Enterprise tablet) and an HP Stream 7. For $75, the Stream gets the bang for the buck vote, with the caveat that it's WIMBoot enabled, so not easily upgraded to Win10TP. The ElitePad rocks on Win10...

 

[scottfish]

I had bought a Stream 7 on a whim when they were first $79, but the front camera didn't work so I returned it. Decided I didn't need it.

Now... The WinBook TW700 is $59??? I snagged one today at Micro Center. Definitely best bang for buck. The full sized USB is awesome. I plugged in my Blue Yeti, installed Audacity and voila... instant podcast rig.

 

[someone2639]

Well I don't think anything other than a phone can impress your deer... ignore this post

 

[TuPizzle]

The Asus t200 is pretty good if you don't mind spending a few bucks.

 

[baseballbert]

Really dumb question. Can you run iTunes on these?

I'm also guessing you've got full Office as well? I need Excel and Power Point in particular.

Thanks!