Black Friday deals... post them here.

[DSLiverpool]

Bought this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00IVZZ9HK/ref=twister_...

[Du1point8]

DSLiverpool said:

Bought this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00IVZZ9HK/ref=twister_...

This the old one of the new one?

Looks a good deal and might replace the ageing system we already have.

[RobinBanks]

Mr Happy said:

I've got one of these, well - I say got, I've 'ordered' one of these to be delivered to tesco on Monday

http://www.tesco.com/direct/connect-7-tablet-with-...

£59 for a 7" Windows 8.1 tablet with MS Office. I'm buying it purely to tinker with Windows 8.1, but it seems like a decent little slab for the cash.

Good God. If I didn't have a Dell Venue 8 Pro already, I would have ordered that. I might point it out to a few people.

[clonmult]

RobinBanks said:

Mr Happy said:

I've got one of these, well - I say got, I've 'ordered' one of these to be delivered to tesco on Monday

http://www.tesco.com/direct/connect-7-tablet-with-...

£59 for a 7" Windows 8.1 tablet with MS Office. I'm buying it purely to tinker with Windows 8.1, but it seems like a decent little slab for the cash.

Good God. If I didn't have a Dell Venue 8 Pro already, I would have ordered that. I might point it out to a few people.

The Dell Venue (and my Acer W4) have 2gb ram, and probably faster storage - so you do have the better device. But for the price that is insanely good. I noticed a few similar deals yesterday in store at Sainsburys - there was a 10" W8 tablet (similar spec) for just over £100.

[RobinBanks]

clonmult said:

RobinBanks said:

Mr Happy said:

I've got one of these, well - I say got, I've 'ordered' one of these to be delivered to tesco on Monday

http://www.tesco.com/direct/connect-7-tablet-with-...

£59 for a 7" Windows 8.1 tablet with MS Office. I'm buying it purely to tinker with Windows 8.1, but it seems like a decent little slab for the cash.

Good God. If I didn't have a Dell Venue 8 Pro already, I would have ordered that. I might point it out to a few people.

The Dell Venue (and my Acer W4) have 2gb ram, and probably faster storage - so you do have the better device. But for the price that is insanely good. I noticed a few similar deals yesterday in store at Sainsburys - there was a 10" W8 tablet (similar spec) for just over £100.

That is true, but the Dell was 4x the price. I'd rather spend £59 on that than £250 on the Dell. I don't use it that much anyway.

[RobinBanks]

Has anyone spotted any particularly good deals on GOOD earphones (NOT headphones)?

I don't know enough about them to spot good from bad....

[Mr Happy]

Mr Happy said:

I've got one of these, well - I say got, I've 'ordered' one of these to be delivered to tesco on Monday

http://www.tesco.com/direct/connect-7-tablet-with-...

£59 for a 7" Windows 8.1 tablet with MS Office. I'm buying it purely to tinker with Windows 8.1, but it seems like a decent little slab for the cash.

I picked this up today and for the money it's a decent bit of kit.

Comes with a wall charger and a micro-USB to USB-A adaptor. I've managed to get it running my car diagnostic kit pretty happily, which saves having to trudge the laptop out with me every time I need to do a data log or fault code read.

The only negative I will give (and this may just be a fault with my tablet, as I haven't tried any others) is that there is a LOT of backlight bleed at the top-right of the screen. So much so that when watching a film, colours are pretty badly washed out. Also, the more fat fingered amongst us might find Windows difficult to navigate around without the aid of a stylus (there isn't one provided).

My intended use is just for tinkering though so really it doesn't bother me too much - if it does, I might try popping it apart to see if there is any way to internally mask it, but it may be something that other purchasers would like to know.

The fact it runs 32 bit Windows 8.1 is quite amazing really, it is a fully fledged PC OS - not a screenjacked smartphone with no cellular calling functionality. Anything you can do on a Windows PC, you can pretty much do on this - specs dependent, obviously!

I'd say it is a solid 6/10 - possibly even a 7/10 on a good day!

[va1o]

I've been tempted by them but have been let down in the past by windows 8 tablets. I had a surface rt originally which couldn't run anything I wanted, then earlier is year I bought an 8" acer iconia which I found unusable.

Having said that £59 isnt expensive and I like the idea of using it to run VCDS instead of the old Thinkpad I currently have.

[Oakey]

Owning a Venue Pro I'd say that 64Gb should be the absolute minimum for these tablets as the OS and recovery partition takes up most of the available space

[Mr Happy]

I've got a couple applications on here (Firefox, diag software, XBMC etc) and it reports 24gb total of which 16.1gb is free. More than enough headroom there imo.