Which Dual-boot to buy?

[Andrew]

Hi Guys

 

I am new in the subject of Chinese tablets but they do look very promising and tempting to me.

I look for an advise from more experienced users than me.

 

My requirements:

I have android tablet and first generation windows tablet (which is to slow to do anything more than excel and word at this point).

I would like to merge two devices together into one and get best from both words.

From Android side I would like to play in demanding games (X-com or Modern Combat) – I understand that this is not a problem for windows tablets nowadays.

From Windows I would like to play older games let’s say pre 2013 (Bioshock 1 and 2 skyrim, Battlefield 3 or even 4 etc.).

On top of this there will be the “boring stuff” work, emails, excel etc.. but if tablet will handle games the rest should not be a problem.

 

Reading various reviews I understand that Core M tablets will be probably above my budget. So I concentrated on 8300/8500/8700 tablets instead.

 

So now bunch of questions which hopefully will help me to understand the options for me:

1. Is it worth is? Can dual boot tablet be as good as two separate devices? What is the user experience for these android distributions available on Chinese tablets?
2. How external memory cards are being handled? Is it shared between systems? If it is then how does it work? can one system see what other is storing? (ie. If I save a photo, music, movie on memory card on Android , can I access it from Windows and vice versa?).
3. On 64GB tablets what is the usual storage split? How much space is left with Windows and how much Android gets? Can this be changed is it flexible at all or set in stone?
4. On Android can I install whole apps on SD card? I had Samsung tablet (Android 4.4 and 5.0.1) I was not able to move apps to the card – it has such an option in the menu but all it does is to move app databases (which wasn’t much of space saving) on the other hand I use Huawei mobile now which is just brilliant in storage management and on 32GB mobile I have around 40GB of apps with still plenty of space in the mobile memory itself.
5. Is the 8300 strong enough to handle any pre 2013 games?
6. Are there any 8500/8700 which don’t have thermal throttling?
7. Is there an easy choice from the tablets on the market which would fit my needs?

 

Ufff…. I apologise for long post but I have bit of mess in my head at this point and I would really appreciate your input.

 

I was looking at Teclast x16 pro/power and Teclast x98 plus/pro but is seems that each of them has its problems.

 

Thank you Guys for all your help.

[Chris G]

Hi,

Well dual boots are good because you get the best of both OS’s. However, it comes at the sacrifice of storage as it’s split of course between the two operating systems. Normally more for Windows and less for Android. So on a 64GB eMMC It’s around 28 GB for Windows and Around 12GB for Android, it varies alot on the different brands. 64bit OS or not etc. But in general try to stay away from 32GB dual boot’s it’s never enough.

• You didn’t mention if you needed a keyboard or what size you prefer? 9.7″ or 8″
• The Z8300 can handle LoL, and some other light titles. Older games like HL2, but on low res like 800 x 600.
• Most of the Z8500’s and Z8700 throttle. Even the Surface 3 X7 Z8700 I had got to 85 degrees.
• Normally you can’t install the apps to microsd cards without messing about with moving to sd apps etc
• If you format the microsd card to Fat32 both OS’s can read it. Or partition it, first partition NTFS for Windows and second fat32 for Android. Only Windows can read the first partition, so the Android side will not be detected in Windows. And normally Android doesn’t read NTFS by default.

My Chuwi Vi8 Plus doesn’t throttle. Neither did my X98 Plus (But it’s GPU is weaker, however good battery life one of the best)

Hope that helps.

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[Andrew]

Thank you Chris for comprehensive reply. I don’t need keyboard to be bundled and screen size I look for is 10″.

So far my mind was set for Teclast X98 pro or X16 pro /power. Reading both forums I got worried reading about the problems on both tablets. Both software and hardware related. Are there really so meny issues with them or people just tend to write when they have a problem but not when everything is working fine?

Price wise I would choose x98 pro but reading about pro+ got me thinking. It there a sense to wait for the improved version? Are there any sings that this is really happening outside south Korea? I noticed that gearbest don’t have x98 in stock now and accepting preorders for a release in late February. Would this suggest new batch? Maybe improved batch?

What do you think?

Thank you for your help.

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