Chinese Surface Book equivalent things...

[CubanPete]

Can anyone offer any user experiences on these?

My Mrs has a decent quality but flagging android tablet, and a very flagging laptop and I rather like the idea of one of the dual boot tablets. I have a decent spec desktop, so it doesn't need to be uber power, it will be for surfing emails and the occasional document. Bar a bit of solitaire neither of us are gamers.

The surface pro is lovely, but out of even my best man maths efforts. But these look pretty reasonable... I think the Chuwi pad is slightly better screenwise, but the Icube keyboard is better...

Can anyone advise either on brand, or if this is a sensible toy or going to be a door wedge in six months?

Chuwi

With

text



or

Icube

with

Icube Keyboard

Thanks

CP

[Foliage]

linx 8 or 10 from Sainsburys or argos, buying from a bricks and mortar shop means you can easily take it back and change it if you need too, its all well and good saving a little money buying online but when it comes to customer service the multiples are a better bet.

had my first gen linx 8 for a good year excellent for what it is.

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/B...

also the acer 8" might be worth a punt, its what id get if my linx died tomorrow.

[Mammasaid]

Try a Lenovo instead;

Lenovo 10.1 Inch MIIX

[zedx19]

Lenovo Miix is a decent device, I used one for a while but it wasn't powerful for my needs. It also feels cheap, trackpad mouse clicker is poor and the battery is woeful. I man mathed an I5 Surface Pro 4 to replace and its an amazing device, albeit an expensive one.

[Mammasaid]

zedx19 said:

Lenovo Miix is a decent device, I used one for a while but it wasn't powerful for my needs. It also feels cheap, trackpad mouse clicker is poor and the battery is woeful. I man mathed an I5 Surface Pro 4 to replace and its an amazing device, albeit an expensive one.

I agree (writing this on a i7 512Gb Surface Pro 3 hooked up to 2 24in Full HD monitors.....)

[Oakey]

Get a used one from Cex. My son got a surface Pro 3 from there and is well pleased with it.

[Drifting]

Got a teclast x98 pro for myself and a teclast plus ii for my other half both with win 10 and android. Very good screens and can play 4k films direct to your tv, had no problems so far and I've had the pro since they came out. For the money don't think you can go wrong, got them from Gearbest, made certain that they were insured delivery and had to pay the vat but far cheaper than anything else with those specs.

[bloomen]

Wipe both of your existing machines and away you go.

[CubanPete]

bloomen said:

Wipe both of your existing machines and away you go.

Thanks, but that isn't what I want to do. Hence question on dual boot machines.

[OldGermanHeaps]

I have the chuwi hi12 dual boot with stylus and i cant fault it, it is utterly fantastic, the screen is a joy to look at and the battery life is great. Touch response wasn't great at first but registry tweaks sorted that and a software tweak solved the quiet speakers, proper belts out the tunes now, its a great piece of kit, it is now my main daily use business pc.

[extraT]

Can you guys post links as to where one might be able to buy these devices, please? Thank!

[brman]

I've got an icube with keyboard.

Good points:
great value for money (I paid £140)
duel boot android/win10
faster than my old netbook that cost twice as much
Decent screen. Much better than the average budget laptop but not as good as my nexus 7 tablet.
keyboard and trackpad work well.

bad points:
windows 10 sometimes shows chinese characters in things like device names. Not a problem but does show its origin
Not sure I'd be able to do a clean install without hitting issues with drivers etc.
keyboard magnets are not quite strong enough, picking it up crooked and give it a shake and the keyboard falls off.
chrome sometimes stops working with the touch screen. Only noticed it in chrome so it might be chrome rather than the machine itself?
keyboard is US layout and there is no alt-gr key. So to get a £ symbol I need to change they layout to uk, remember £ is shift 3, then change the layout back to US.

The only real pain is the last one but luckily I don't use £ symbols much. Other than that I think it is a great machine and well worth what I paid for it.

[clonmult]

I've been using a Toshiba Click Mini for a while - 8.9" 1920x1200 screen. Primarily used for reading comics, for which it is excellent.

But sometimes a slightly larger screen would be handy, these cheap devices would fit the bill well if the Toshiba were to die.

[Drifting]

extraT said:

Can you guys post links as to where one might be able to buy these devices, please? Thank!

I use Gearbest.com as they do PayPal and have had no problems with them and use them regularly. Free postage as well but on something like the tablet it's worth paying the insurance cost and better shipping.