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It’s official. You can now get a small Windows tablet with long battery life and support for desktop and mobile apps for less than the price of a new Google Nexus 7.
While most 8 inch Windows tablets have starting prices around the $300 mark, we’ve regularly seen them go on sale for much lower prices — and at the moment you can pick up a Lenovo Miix 2 8″ tablet from Best Buy for just $200.
The jury’s still out on whether Windows tablets are truly competitive with iPads or Android tablets. There aren’t as many tablet-friendly apps for Windows as there are for Android or iOS, but the Windows Store has a growing number of decent apps. But Windows tablets have their perks — try running the full versions of Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, QuickBooks, or other desktop apps on an iPad or Nexus tablet.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
- Lenovo Miix 2 8″ Windows 8 tablet w/32GB for $200 – Best Buy
- Acer Iconia W4 8 inch Windows 8 tablet for $250 and up
– Amazon
- HP Omni 10 Windows tablet w/Bay Trail for $375
– Amazon
- Asus Transformer Pad TF701T tablet w/Tegra 4 + WQHD display for $390 – Adorama
- Google Nexus 10 w/32GB for $330 – The Digital Guy (via eBay)
- Acer Aspire V5 11.6″ notebook w/Celeron 1017U for $299 – Buy.com (via eBay)
- Buy a Surface tablet, get a Touch or Type cover $40 off – Best Buy
- Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch (1st gen) for $200 after rebate – TigerDirect
- ADATA 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive for $25 after rebate – TigerDirect
- Centon 64GB USB 2.0 flash drive for $20 – TigerDirect (coupon:Â 10XJY118657List )
You can find more bargains in our daily deals section.
I think there is a Fedora build that may just work on this tablet https://www.happyassassin.net/fedlet-a-fedora-remix-for-bay-trail-tablets/ This might just be a decent enough price
Try running full versions of Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, QuickBooks, or other desktop apps on a windows 8 tablet. Putting a keyboard/mouse on it makes it no longer a tablet.
I call Windows software, “programs”, and not “apps”, to indicate
the “full strength” or “commercial grade” of the Windows software.
I will allow “applications” to describe Windows software (never to be shortened or abbreviated to “apps”). I think the small Windows
software was called “applets” by someone before. Somewhere
in all this is “widgets”.