What’s your primary piece of tech?

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I think I’ve finally found mine… For years I’ve wanted a tablet that could read books and comics, browse the web, watch movies, stream audio, play games, AND produce and edit MS Office documents…

I thought I found it when ASUS produced the T100—a Windows 8.1 tablet/netbook hybrid. The T100 is a great little netbook. It runs MS Office fine, surfs the web, and runs Nexflix flawlessly. BUT, I haven’t undocked the screen from the keyboard in months because it’s not a very good tablet…

It’s not a good tablet, not because of hardware limitations, but because it doesn’t have any good tablet apps. Comixology is comically bad, the kindle app is meh, and most other common Android apps simply aren’t there.

BUT NOW, I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S… It runs the MS Office Preview (beta apps) great, plus it does all the fun stuff that Android Tabs do—reads comics and books, plays games and videos, etc. And, it’s powerful enough that I can do all that stuff at the same time. Right now, I’m running MS Word, Chrome, and I’m streaming NPR on TuneIn at the same time on split screens!

I’ve only had it for a week or so, but it’s the only thing I use anymore. There’s no need to switch over to my netbook to work and no need to switch back to a tablet when I need a comic book break. I’ve finally found the one piece of tech to feed all my needs!

I wish I had one. I split time between a Dell XPS 1810 mega-tablet, Toshiba NB201 Atom Netbook, Samsung Series 7 Chronos (really just for graphics oomph) and Smartphones: Moto G, Nokia E7-00. My work is rarely simple enough to remain on one device.

Panasonic Toughbook/LetsNote CF-T8 Rev2

Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Old HP Mini 210 Netbook running Arch Linux.

My Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

Impressions? I might cop one of these on employee discount...

Just bumped my Toshiba nb201 to Fedora 21. Ram bottlenecks just won't die but it remains my favorite. Multi core Atoms are schveet. Still wondering if I can touchscreen mod one like these & keep *nix of some sort at least...

I've been thinking of picking up an ASUS T100TA. Can you install Android or Linux on it, or are you stuck with Windoze? If I find a way around the storage limitations, I may dual or even triple-boot on it.

Iffy... as a Linux technomancer I have no intention of touching UEFI bootloaders...

Asus actually does make a version of the T100 running Kitkat now. The new windows models also come with a 500GB HD in the dock. I'm not sure about the android models.

The asus tablet is not bad, and pretty cheap too. I almost bought it instead of my Gal Tab S... But if I'm honest, I'm glad I didn't.

Amazon is selling the kitkat model with keyboard for about $250 right now.

I want it to be x86 though, so I have the option of running Windoze if I need to, or at least a different Linux distro. Android is not my favorite OS, but it's much better suited to tablet usage than the others, so I'd like to use it alongside a more traditional "desktop" OS.

You can always root Android devices & run Linux inside Android in a VNC bounce Kernel Loop device. I'll probably be buying an Intel Atom Nokia N1 once it releases stateside for just these purposes. Careful not to leave such exploits running though, or you can fry the network interfaces.

I understand completely, and I feel the same way...

As far as I know, both flavors use exactly the same hardware--intel's new baytrail processor.
I think the best way to go would be to get the windows model and setup a dual boot for kitkat.

People over at XDA have been working on this for a while now. I'm not sure how far they have gotten, but it would definitely be worth checking out if you want something to play around with.

Or, I could dodge the "Windows tax", grab the Android model, and dual-boot with Linux. Do you think that would work? I'd want it to run natively with full hardware access, not just in a chroot or VNC.

I'm pretty sure you'd want to dig around for a touchscreen chromebook in that case. I know modules exist to keep android on a separate MoBo within one device but they go for quite a premium.