Tablet recommendations?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/22/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Johnson wrote:
>
> I just bought the same with doc for my grandmother-in-law who is laid
> up in the hospital with a broken leg and so won't be using her desktop
> for a while after returning home either.  Beautiful machine.  All you
> could want in a tablet and most everything you could want from a
> netbook.  I would have gotten the prime, but BestBuy was back ordered
> forever.  Since both have Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) (Android 4.0.3),
> the only significant difference to her (and most users I expect) would
> be the weight.  The prime is noticeably lighter and sleeker, so it
> would have be worth it for Gammy, but the timing trumped it all.
>
> I've been watching the Transformer line since release and nothing has
> come close in bang for your buck since.  I have not yet bought one for
> my house because I'm holding out for something with multi-user
> abilities so my family can share it like we do our Ubuntu laptop with
> out any fuss in switching users.  I'm expecting some nice units to
> come out on the heels of Ubuntu 12.04 next month since it is a
> long-term-support release and the first LTS with the new, more tablet
> friendly GUI.  Also, there is a lot of talk about mutli-user support
> coming in Android.  There was some talk of it coming with ICS but I
> have not seen it yet.  Anyone?
I've heard some good things about the transformer line. The market place
will tend to make a big difference.

WRT: multi-user
I don't think that tablets, per se, would be good multi-user systems. Of
course, I know you would want to put OpenVMS on it :-)

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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