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RE: If your budget for a NEW laptop is $500, it shouldn't - or rather can't - be Apple.

Hey, that ASUS Transformer Book that you recommend a while back has worked out very well for my need for a portable machine to read media and deal with email on the road. Nice screen, too. And well under $500. Thanks! With the keyboard attached and a good pair of strong reading glasses it is fully up to my notebook needs. (Not using it for audio.)

At the real low end I got a $79 tablet recently that runs Android Kit Kat 4.4. I got this so I could debug my website interface and music downloads on this platform after some customers were having problems. This is a real cheap POS with a horrible screen. However, even so it works well browsing NetFlix and then commanding ChromeCast to run on my TV. Also the power consumption is lower than with the nicer ASUS, probably due to the ARM processor and poor screen.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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