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Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet

posted by janrinok on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the wild-dreams? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I tried searching and came to the conclusion this does not exist. I would like a tablet with the following features:

  • Easy to install (or pre-installed) LineageOS, or some other open source OS that doesnt require any fighting with bloatware or control over updates (please give your opinion on what is best)
  • Easy to open up and repair (and mod) the device hardware myself without any special tools (ie, standard electronics screwdrivers, etc)
  • Matte screen with dynamic range that allows the screen to be bright enough to use in the sun but dark enough to use while falling asleep.

I don't plan on using it for anything besides basic web browsing and pdf reading, so it should be cheap. However, price is no object if it has those features. There was one other soft criteria but it sounded like an ad so I removed it... See if you can guess.

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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:18PM (1 child)

    by ledow (5567) on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:18PM (#677961) Homepage

    ChromeOS tablets exist. They may not be called Chromebooks, but they are sold all over the education market.

    And given that they run all the Android apps now too, that means they're actually "Android tablets" + "ChromeOS" in the same tablet-form device.

    Case in point: Acer Chromebook Tab 10

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:36PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:36PM (#677985) Journal

    The reason Chromebooks are popular in education:
    * They are centrally controllable (just join each device to your fleet when you first receive it)
    * School district has a choice of manufacturers to negotiate volume wholesale price discounts with (the advantage of not buying Apple or Microsoft)
    * Thus, they are cheap. (I hear rumor of $66 / unit)
    * Easily replaced if lost, stolen or eaten
    * If stolen, they can be remote-wiped (maybe even bricked)
    * Once replaced, all lessons and materials in the cloud are instantly available once again. (But if you locally store Android data, it undermines this advantage)
    * At end of school year, mass-remote-wipe the devices

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