Originally Posted by motsy:
“Circumstances led me to downloading OpenOffice onto my laptop and former tablet and the beauty of it was, I could transfer everything I'd done in MS word into OpenOffice and that's where having an SD card comes in- I can go back and forth between laptop and tablet.
I'm not getting a new tablet for the sheer sake of it or because I want a new one.”
I actually bought a
Linx 10 because someone recommended it.
It's a ten inch tablet that costs £149. But it runs Windows 8, and will get a free upgrade to Windows 10 at the end of the month, if you want it. That's full Windows 8.1. It is a PC. You could install Final Draft if you wanted, or any Windows PC programme including OpenOffice.
I hated Windows 8 on my PC because they tried to force a touch UI onto everyone, even if you had a desktop PC. But on a tablet the W8 Metro UI is great. All the tablet/touch gestures work great. But want to do some serious work and it has the full, traditional, Windows desktop which you can use with a USB or bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
It has a micro SD slot, HDMI out to connect a monitor or your HDTV and a micro USB (they supply a regular USB converter.)
It's a great tablet, that can do loads of things the iPad can't. And it is also a full PC. For £150. They do the case/keyboard for £24, which I haven't got so can't comment.
Downsides? The speakers are weak. They're small and on the back. It hasn't got the Surface's kick stand. And it goes without saying that this isn't the most powerful processor. You're probably best not try much 1080p video editing.
But it's still very capable. You can have two video players open playing two different HD videos side by side perfectly and the processor is easily capable of that with no problems.