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Also if you're looking for a tablet you can do some work on but aren't sure about spending 500-1k$ there are plenty of cheap (100-200$ range) Atom based 8-10''

Also if you're looking for a tablet you can do some work on but aren't sure about spending 500-1k$ there are plenty of cheap (100-200$ range) Atom based 8-10'' Chinese tablets running windows 10 with like 4GB ram which should be enough to do basics (example http://www.onda-tablet.com/onda-obook-10-tablet.html http://www.onda-tablet.com/onda-obook-10-tablet.html). Not even close in specs to things like MS surface but then again I wouldn't really care if I broke/lost it and I doubt I would use a tablet as my primary work machine anyway.

Yhippa 10y ago
Have you used one of those devices before? This is exactly what I was looking for about two years ago but gave up because I could only find devices with one or two GB of RAM. This is very tempting and the Ones looks nice.
- rubber_duck 10y ago
  I've used an older model, stuff like touch precision make it noticeable that it's a cheap device (usable but noticeably worse). As you said the 2 GB is too low for serious use (basically any multi tasking and off we go to swap, also 32 GB of storage is really low and SD card is slow). Will probably get some 4gb version before my next vacation, but you should definitely google reviews before getting one I have no idea if they have serious problems they were just the first one I remembered for cheap win 10 tablets when I looked in to them two years back.
gf263 10y ago
Do you think I could install Ubuntu on that?
- rubber_duck 10y ago
  Not sure about that particular model but I know people did it with other Atom models, still the usual Linux on obscure hardware problems are there - unsupported WiFi/sound/etc.
shams93 10y ago
Yeah these work well for things like nodejs development windows 10 getting full ubuntu bash will make these little 4 gig devices more useful for command line development. Big ides such as visual studio and android studio will struggle to run on these devices though.
- rubber_duck 10y ago
  Actually VS is not that much of a memory hog unless you're talking huge projects but storage space could be an issue with VS install (that model has 64GB). I would probably just use VS code and probably wouldn't try to do big C++ project compilation/dev :D

Yhippa 10y ago

Have you used one of those devices before? This is exactly what I was looking for about two years ago but gave up because I could only find devices with one or two GB of RAM. This is very tempting and the Ones looks nice.

rubber_duck 10y ago
I've used an older model, stuff like touch precision make it noticeable that it's a cheap device (usable but noticeably worse). As you said the 2 GB is too low for serious use (basically any multi tasking and off we go to swap, also 32 GB of storage is really low and SD card is slow). Will probably get some 4gb version before my next vacation, but you should definitely google reviews before getting one I have no idea if they have serious problems they were just the first one I remembered for cheap win 10 tablets when I looked in to them two years back.

gf263 10y ago

Do you think I could install Ubuntu on that?

rubber_duck 10y ago
Not sure about that particular model but I know people did it with other Atom models, still the usual Linux on obscure hardware problems are there - unsupported WiFi/sound/etc.

shams93 10y ago

Yeah these work well for things like nodejs development windows 10 getting full ubuntu bash will make these little 4 gig devices more useful for command line development. Big ides such as visual studio and android studio will struggle to run on these devices though.

rubber_duck 10y ago
Actually VS is not that much of a memory hog unless you're talking huge projects but storage space could be an issue with VS install (that model has 64GB). I would probably just use VS code and probably wouldn't try to do big C++ project compilation/dev :D