8.1 Tablets with the new core M processors

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a3venom

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Hi,
I am looking to buy a tablet for my daily use since i broke my laptop.

I bought a t100 asus, and it performs slower than a 4 year old android phone for web browsing / youtube - i don't know how it got such good reviews.
[ it can't play 720 youtube videos without stuttering every 2 secs on chrome so I dont see why people bought this product or maybe I got a really shitty unit? ]


I am looking for something fanless, i will never buy anything with a fan in it.

Looking for inputs for the cheapest tablets on the market right now with a fanless Core processor in it, eg - Dell Venue pro 7000
1080p screen is a big plus.


Any suggestions please?
 
I just picked up a Surface Pro from Cowboom for $299.99 plus tax. (Includes keyboard and ac adapter.) I think it is worth it but, you will need to go through at least 15 pages to find one worth getting. It is quick and painless to do that though.
 
I would rather have a dual core Core M processor in a tablet than a quad core Atom, but they're in different price ranges. An older model Surface Pro for $300 is a good alternative if options are open beyond Atom and Core M.

a3venom said:
I bought a t100 asus, and it performs slower than a 4 year old android phone for web browsing / youtube - i don't know how it got such good reviews.
[ it can't play 720 youtube videos without stuttering every 2 secs on chrome so I dont see why people bought this product or maybe I got a really shitty unit? ]
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Use one of several ways to force H.264 instead of unaccelerated WebM/VP8/VP9 video. For example: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify

The original T100 reviews were probably made before Google starting pushing much more content via unaccelerated codecs, otherwise it would have been widely noted.
 
pxc said:
I would rather have a dual core Core M processor in a tablet than a quad core Atom, but they're in different price ranges. An older model Surface Pro for $300 is a good alternative if options are open beyond Atom and Core M.

Use one of several ways to force H.264 instead of unaccelerated WebM/VP8/VP9 video. For example: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify

The original T100 reviews were probably made before Google starting pushing much more content via unaccelerated codecs, otherwise it would have been widely noted.
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Didn't know that, gonna return it , buy the 2gb one and see if it is usable.

gotta love product replacement
 
ManofGod said:
Nah, the Surface Pro has a Intel Core i5-3317U 1.7 Ghz Processor.
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Considering that,
i can get a dell venue pro 11 with i5 4300y if im not wrong @ 369, Refurbished with 90 day warranty from dell.

Does that seem like a good deal?

only thing that scares me is that it is a tablet with a FAN inside.
 
a3venom said:
Considering that,
i can get a dell venue pro 11 with i5 4300y if im not wrong @ 369, Refurbished with 90 day warranty from dell.

Does that seem like a good deal?

only thing that scares me is that it is a tablet with a FAN inside.
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Go for it, that's a quite good price. Paid a bit over $800 or so for the 11 Pro 7140 model (Core M chip) so that's an amazing deal for a quite good tablet. Do factor in the cost of a keyboard though. There's two: One has a battery and one doesn't, they both have a keyboard and little mousepad. The stylus just plain sucks though, requires AAAA batteries and has bad battery life.

do note one thing about the Venue 11 line: they're upgradable, something you can't say about the Surface tablets. I think wireless can be swapped and I know storage can be swapped. (the back snaps off, there's one tiny screw under the microsd/sim card bay cover) They use standard M.2 cards in them, I swapped out the 64Gig one that came with mine for a 256Gig one.
 
At this point, I refuse to buy a tablet with a fan. I really would like to see what core M tablets are around the corner.
 
I have 2 Dell Venu 8 Pro tablets and 1 Venu 11 tablets. All of them are atom based and can play 720p and 1080p just fine (11 Pro). Baytrail Atoms are not what I would call slow... albeit they are not the fastest things around either...

used 8 pro (5000 series - the one you want) tablets go for $100 (32GB) and $145 (64GB) all day long
 
ThrottleStop has recently added support for the Core M and Bay Trail CPUs. On some low power devices with throttling issues, it has made a world of difference.

From throttling down to the equivalent of 64 MHz,

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-throttlestop-guide.531329/page-305#post-10007192

to running flat out, fully loaded with Aida stress test as well as Furmark at 1583 MHz.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-throttlestop-guide.531329/page-306#post-10007257

Your results might not be this significant but ThrottleStop could mean the difference between a usable device and an unusable one.

ThrottleStop 8.00 beta 2
https://www.sendspace.com/file/b4oure
 
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