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Would like a tablet for home use - bit of browsing when the phone is annoying, but not worth getting the laptop out, playing music, recipes in the kitchen, the odd YouTube video when I'm fixing something in the garage... That sort of thing.
Never owned a tablet before so no idea what to look for.
Don't know what a sensible budget is, certainly wouldn't want to spend more than a couple of hundred quid, but 100 or less much more appealing, if it doesn't overly compromise things. Second hand/refurbed fine if I know what to look for.
Phones have always been Android, mostly Samsung, so there's that.
Any pointers?
Ta.
I've just bought a second hand lenovo duet chromebook. Its got a removable keyboard, but becomes a normal android tablet when the keyboard is removed. Its very good at the tasks you listed. They go for around £120 second hand.
There’s an iPad mini in the classifieds that should be ideal. Not Android but dead simple to use and it seems a fair price. Nothing to do with me I hasten to add.
Cheers.
I nearly bought one of those mini laptop/tablet things a while back when a friend who knows about these things posted a really good deal on one. Think it was Lenovo. Can't remember what put me off in the end.
Saw that iPad mini, and wondered. I'm not totally anti-Apple (owned a MacBook in the distant past) but would rather keep everything android.
Yeah, I'm not techy at all, but I'm enjoying using this thing. I leave the keyboard attached pretty much all the time, so use it for all the typing rather than the screen keyboard.
The chromebook OS seems really well thoughtout too, although I'm not really a serious user.
It replaced a ten year old chinese tablet. so my expectations may be slightly lower than some.
At your budget the speakers wont be the best on most tablets, just to be aware. Not terrible, but not amazing.
My go to for second hand stuff is CEX these days, good selection, sometimes great prices (not always, seems inconsistent between A and B grades), 2 year warranty...
I'd be looking at the Lenovo P11 Plus - I think a new version just came out so prices will vary, but I got the gen 1 128gb version for my daughter and its sensational for the money (I paid). It was sub £200 before Christmas from Amazon.
Should have been clearer about the music - it'd be plugged into/Bluetoothed to an amp, so speakers not an issue.
Cheers, will have a look at that Lenovo. Yeah, have bought a couple of phones from CEX. There's a couple of branches in town, and if you don't want to spend ages researching exactly what you want and what a good price for it is, it's not a bad option.