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I've found a fantastic travel tablet / netbook - Linx 1010
I came across this as I was looking for a travel computer solution and after reading all the reviews, for the insane cheap price , I bought it.

The Linx 1010 with Keyboard.

So check this out.

Linx 1010 32GB with Keyboard and Antivirus - Ebuyer

It's a 10" touchscreen tablet with FULL windows 10 so you can run Garmin products etc

It has a removable keyboard which is actually really nice to type on.
It has 2 x Full size USB ports with one USB 3.0
It has a Solid state 32GB hard drive and will take a MicroSD card upto 128GB
Battery lasts for ages and screen is good enough for watching films, youtube etc.

The speaker is a bit rubbish as is the camera but who cares. It has an earphone socket.

It's small and lighter than a netbook. And the price !! £130.. So so cheap.

Hard to go wrong... I've had mine two weeks and it's been great.

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Thanks for the tip! I think I´ll need to find out, if they offer a version with larger disk space though, as I´ll want to back up photos, and 32 Gb´s is kinda small-ish for that.. otherwise it looks quite tempting, esp. the price!
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Thanks for the tip! I think I´ll need to find out, if they offer a version with larger disk space though, as I´ll want to back up photos, and 32 Gb´s is kinda small-ish for that.. otherwise it looks quite tempting, esp. the price!
It's got a micro SD card slot. You can buy 64GB cards for £15. Just swap them out when full. The cards are tiny.

With Windows 10, you can easily make it save all pics, vids to the SD by default.
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It's got a micro SD card slot. You can buy 64GB cards for £15. Just swap them out when full. The cards are tiny.

With Windows 10, you can easily make it save all pics, vids to the SD by default.
Yes to save pics without the risc of breaking a mechanikel harddrive they are fine but to install and run programs from the cheap ons are way to slow...
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Yes to save pics without the risc of breaking a mechanikel harddrive they are fine but to install and run programs from the cheap ons are way to slow...
I guess it depends on what you're doing. If you want to do a lot of video editing and other such things then you might need to look elsewhere.

For everything else though, I think it's more than enough.
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If it takes the these >100gb sd cards (fast ons will double the price of the tablet) its actually quite nice idea even the Ram Memory is to small for video cutting. Amazing how fast the prices of computers are dropping. Have fun with it as i do have with my samsung series 5 128SSD 8GB one jear ago for 300€ on ebay :-)
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Amazing how fast the prices of computers are dropping. .................................................. .......................... my samsung series 5 128SSD 8GB one jear ago for 300€ on ebay :-)
It's called deflation and it is worldwide at present.
Next year, the product will be cheaper.
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My wifey has one of them Windoze tablet things "surface" (first version) and she can't even install Chrome on it. Apparently you need to shell out if you want to install extra programs on it.
I kinda like the look and price of that Linx thingy but would we run into the same trap here ?
I've got a trusty 8 or so years old lappy on Winders 7 running with which I hardly ever have any problems, but I can't see me that carrying around on a trip where everything extra is extra weight and bother so what would be smart for us to get ?
Any advise from the collective please ?
We don't need to edit videos, we just want a reliable piece of equipment to surf the web and write a few articles/emails and such and change the maps for the Garmins.

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It's called deflation and it is worldwide at present.
Next year, the product will be cheaper.
No its calles evolution of the technik. Deflation would also make petrol and laber cheaper but this is not what happens...
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So no USB connection?

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So no USB connection?
Its not an Apple ;-) It has two full size USB 2.0 Ports see comments:

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So no USB connection?

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Two full sized ports. One of them is usb 3.0
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No its calles evolution of the technik.
Swiss and German economists would argue along those lines but economists from other nations might take a different view.

I do agree, to an extent, about the premise of developing technology, economy of scale and similar; however not all nations reap the benefits and certainly not all in equal measure - that is but one reason why the Euro cannot work for all those involved.

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Deflation would also make petrol and laber cheaper but this is not what happens...
It is happening now and has been for a while.
But this time around there is a major shift in the paradigm of oil pricing. e.g. OPEC is not the force it once was.

However, I am now way from the OP.
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I'm looking to pickup an Asus Transformer T100HA, its light, not extremely expensive and can be converted to a tablet. You can charge it with a regular USB cable, which i think is a huge plus because you wont need a separate bulky adapter. The downside is a rather small hard disk of 32GB, though you can use an SD card or external disk as alternative storage.
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No.. It's a full version win10 tablet. It's like having a good old fashioned pc in a format you can travel with. No cons, no traps .. Just enjoy.
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