Need recommendations please!

[Joachim]

Cube i7 or the Mix plus would be good choices, i think.

[koricky]

 

I agree, but to buy tablet and its accessories completely, i think my money not enough. What do you think about iwork11?or there are other recommendations?

[Reid McG]

I bought a cube i7 stylus and it’s worked fantastically for the year I’ve had it.

http://www.geekbuying.com/search?keyword=cube+i7+stylus

https://www.aliexpress.com/premium/cube-i7-stylus.html?ltype=wholesale&d=y&origin=y&isViewCP=y&catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20170310070454&SearchText=cube+i7+stylus&blanktest=0&tc=ppc

 

I can’t think of any negatives, in fact.  I was able to play Fallout: New Vegas at a decent resolution (low settings) at ~30 FPS, to give you an idea of the kind of power it has.  And as you can see, nowadays its around $350 USD or so, which is a pretty good deal.  Only complaint I have is that the screen is not fully laminated, which means you have plenty of reflections in a high brightness situation.  That said, you do have a micro HDMI-out for using it with a TV or monitor.

[Sean]

I think Joachim and Reid both have made excellent recommendations, I think Cube makes some nice tech, especially for the price.  I think recommending older models speaks well of how well these tend to hold up, but if I had about $400 to spend, I’d definitely get the newest, especially because the price has come down a lot, even in just the last week or so.  The Cube Mix Plus has been $362-395+ for months, it’s now $299: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/gearbest-flashsale-cube-mix-plus-for-280e/

I would get the keyboard for about 53, a glass screen protector for 9, and a case for 10. That’s about $372 total for the latest and fastest version of what you are looking for, accessories included.

I don’t think you could go wrong with either the i7 book/stylus, but you won’t spend a lot more for the Mix that has the latest processor and a 128gb SSD.

If you find a really good deal on either of the other two, then here is a good thread comparison:

https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/cube-i7-stylus-vs-cube-i7-book/

If it’s a Cube or something else, tell what you end up with and what you think of it.

[Sean]

koricky wrote:

I agree, but to buy tablet and its accessories completely, i think my money not enough. What do you think about iwork11?or there are other recommendations?

Nothing really wrong with an iwork11 especially if you find a nice deal, but you will get what you pay for, no matter how much you “save:”

Biggest disadvantages:

1. eMMc storage. All of the cheapest tablets have this instead of an upgradable SSD.  It’s fine for what it is, but just realize that read and write speeds are a lot slower for everything the tablet does.  Since you have the extra money to spend, I wouldn’t recommend getting a model using eMMc storage.  If you stick with any of the other recommendations in this thread you will do OK, they all have SSD drives and make just about everything you do with the tablet noticably faster.
2. At last check, this tablet used a 32 bit version of windows…you will have to make sure you either get the 64 bit version or can easily upgrade to it. 32 bit windows can only “see” 3 of the 4gb of ram, so you don’t want to end up with the 32 bit version of windows that this tablet’s review said it came with.

Overall the non upgradable eMMc drive makes this one of the slowest pen based tablets.  I haven’t used this one myself, but have enough experience using both eMMc/SSD tabs to know for most things I’d use  a tablet for, that my time is just too valuable to waste on models that use eMMc storage.  SSD drives have read/write speeds that can easily average out being two to six+ times faster…it does sort of suck because “SSD over eMMc” does kind of spoil you for the using the best, my guess is that once you’ve gotten used to even one tab that has one, you may find awfully hard to wrap your mind around buying anything at eMMc speeds again.

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