[Randolph]

I’d like to see a laptop, competitor to the Asus T-100 but with less bezel like the X98+ and more RAM.  I use the X98+ mostly as a laptop, which works fine on tables, even airplane tables, but not so much on an actual lap.  Here is a thought, use the regular X98+ but make a great keyboard for it, and add a battery in the keyboard connectable to the x98+ that gives 24 hours of normal use.  It would be a very compelling offering and you could charge a premium price for the keyboard.

[Randolph]

Does Windows recognize larger SD cards (>32GB) after the flash?  That is my biggest concern.

[Randolph]

I’m using the Gearbest case.  I like the keyboard but it doesn’t work as a laptop very well — the keyboard has weak magnets and slides off too easily, causing the tablet to fall.  I tried gluing down a magnetic strip

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NGE9C0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

which improves the stickiness of the keyboard, though I would say not enough.  I would still like it stickier.  It is fine on the tray table of an airplane, but on a lap, not so hot.

I really like the size of the X98+ and the performance (Win 10 only) seems good.  Ideally a keyboard case would work like a Surface, thin keyboard and a prop to hold the tablet.  I would buy an alternate keyboard case if it was lapable.  (I like the 10 inch form factor for travel or I’d just use a Surface.)

[Randolph]

It looks like there are drivers — inf_all.exe, vga_all.exe, etc — stored as executables.  Do you know if they are different that the earlier ones posted?

[Randolph]

Thanks, Gal.  I found that elsewhere on the forum, it is touchscreen.gt and when placed in INF, the problem vanishes.  I am traveling with the X98+ and Teclast keyboard now, indeed typing on it.  I’m very happy with it.  This seems to be the minimal size at which I can type without substantial errors, and the battery life and screen are fine.  I travel frequently and keep a laptop ready to go — all I have to do is sync email and one drive prior to my trip — and this is a fine device for that purpose.  I would like them to solve the driver issue on the sd card reader though the 32GB one works fine and I haven’t filled it.

The only thing I think of as a bug is that the magnet that positions the keyboard is too weak.  This is not a problem on a desk or other hard surface, but on a lap, it tends to slide out a bit and then suddenly pop off.  I’m thinking of a hackey solution to this problem or adapting a different case to this keyboard as I like the keyboard and the size is perfect.  I’ll try beefing up the magnet and report back.

BTW, two points on that.  I use the Microsoft Mobile Mouse 3600, along with the Teclast keyboard.  Both have the excellent property that they connect immediately and reliably to the X98+.  The bluetooth connections work much better than other tablets I have used.  I’ve had cases where I had to recreate the connection to join the keyboard, but no problems here.  Second, the battery life on the keyboard is unusually short.  Not so short as to be a problem, e.g. a computer intensive, week-long trip doesn’t use up a full charge — but I now charge the keyboard after every trip, where I used to charge the keyboard (an HP model for an 8 inch tablet) every second month or so.

So I’d say: if your primary use is Office, including big excel spreadsheets, email, browsing and the like and you put a great priority on portability, the X98+ is a very good candidate.  It is as small as touch typing can get with a nice feeling keyboard, whole package under $250 with mouse and SD card.

[Randolph]

Thanks!  Great tip.

[Randolph]

I couldn’t get a PNY 128GB card to work, but no problem with a 32GB PNY and Sandisk.

[Randolph]

Thanks for posting.  I did a clean install of Windows Pro.  My goal with this tablet was a replacement for an 8inch Winbook tablet which I used for travel and in that form factor, the keyboard was just a bit too small for touch typing.

I haven’t yet figured out how to get the touchscreen to recover from sleep.

I wish the magnet on the keyboard was stronger; it slips too much.  I like to use these devices on my lap and the whole thing slips down too frequently.  On an airplane tray, it is fine.  Other than that, I like the keyboard very much — I can type quite quickly on it.

Screen is great and it is snappier than I expected given the reviews.  Overall this is a great cheap travel tablet with keyboard.

[Randolph]

That problem is a driver failure, usually caused by having an extra storage device (SD card or usb) plugged into the machine during an update.  The workaround was to remove all other storage plugins during the update process.  Glad you found an alternative workaround.

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I converted to Win only.  To do this, I flashed an academic copy of Windows from my university as a clean install.  Have the drivers handy because nothing is supported other than USB drives, even the SD card reader was not functional.  The machine is currently mostly functional.  The main irritant is that the touchscreen does not recover from sleep.  There is something wrong with HID — it detects 16 HID-Compliant consumer control devices and four HID-compliant system controllers and a bunch of other things, including two touchscreens.  This doesn’t seem right even though no device reports an error and the touchscreen works if I reboot.

 

I plan to go on the win insider and update beyond 10240 that I’m currently running.

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Has anyone gotten a card larger than 32GB to work?  Teclast advertises 128GB but I tried the cards at hand and all the ones 32GB and less worked.  I suspect the 128GB promise is wrong and it is a 32 GB max but it could be the driver that is the problem, too.

[Randolph]

I can’t get a PNY 128GB to work, but a PNY 32GB works fine.  Moreover the failure with the larger card is a general slowdown of the machine and PC no longer appearing in File Explorer — not obvious that the card is the problem until I remove it and the machine starts working again.

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