Looking for 10-12" win tablet ~ $600

[Andy T]

I impulse bought Lenovo MIIX 700 for 600 from Costco. While it's OK, I am wondering if there are other windows based tablets under $600 to consider?
Main uses would be reading PDFs, watching movies. Possibly some light Visual Studio work.
I like the detachable keyboard/cover and would strongly prefer the tablet to have the Lenovo version vs the thick/hard plastic of Transformer windows based series.

Thank you!

 

[MarkizSchnitzel]

You got that for 600$?! That's like.. 2 times cheaper than here in EU.

I seriously doubt there is anything remotely as good in that price range.

 

[clamum]

For basic stuff (reading PDFs, watching movies, etc) I'd think an ASUS Transformer would work great. My brother and I got my mom the 11.6" T200TA version for this past Christmas and it's a pretty sweet system for $200. I'm not sure how Visual Studio would do on it, though.

 

[quikah]

Is there something lacking in the Lenovo? I think you will be hardpressed to find a similar setup for that price, it was a pretty good sale.

 

[Andy T]

1. It crashes with Chrome, although, knock on wood, after a bunch of updates it seems to be stable.
2. I was a bit annoyed, as the tablet came without functioning blue tooth. I had to manually install updated drivers to get it to work.
3. Seeing if there is anything better out there.
I actually got Surface 3 (plain) on order to compare to MIIX.

 

[quikah]

1. It crashes with Chrome, although, knock on wood, after a bunch of updates it seems to be stable.
2. I was a bit annoyed, as the tablet came without functioning blue tooth. I had to manually install updated drivers to get it to work.
3. Seeing if there is anything better out there.
I actually got Surface 3 (plain) on order to compare to MIIX.

Surface 3 will be slower, it uses Atom, the Lenovo uses Core M. The biggest issue with the Surface 3 is the eMMC storage, very slow. Still, it is pretty nice, I like the size, the 12" tablets are too big for me.