Best non ipad for IT person/department
 

Powers at be have given me the ok to find a tablet to use for work. Wanted a win 7 as i know i can install anything and everything i want on one that i will need. Then i started looking at them to find there are maybe 3 that would work out and all 3 suck in 1 way or an other so droid might be the next best thing.

Both my boss and I have tablets. He opted for the Galaxy Tab, while I went the el-cheap-o route and got a flytouch 3.

The galaxy tab is nice. Good build quality and responsiveness. The big downside is that it has NO external ports unless you want to spend extra $$ to buy adapters for USB and whatnot that interface with its proprietary uniport.

The flytouch, on the other hand, has HDMI out, 2 USB ports (supports usb sticks/mice/keyboards/etc), a microSD slot, and the biggie, an ethernet jack. I rooted in and installed a terminal emulator. Fucking boss status. Its so nice to be able to plug into any network jack and have network/internet access on our boats if I need to remote in via citrix to get at my notes (wi-fi doesn't penetrate the steel hull very well....). Very useful for light mobile troubleshooting. I also picked up a case with a keyboard for when I don't feel like using the touchscreen. Downside is that it is resistive and doesn't support multitouch, but it isn't that big of a deal to me.

iPad3

asus transformer prime and the keyboard dock
you need quad core in your tablet

The Asus stuff looks really good. I think when I go tab, I'll go that route.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-asus.html

In for market rape.

Only 1 gb ram....

A guy I work with showed up with one of those the other day. As a tablet it's very cool- good UI, responsive screen, etc. I just don't see the point of having the keyboard attachment. If I'm doing something sufficiently intensive that it involves a keyboard, I'll be using my Dell E4200, which is about the same size, but is a real computer.

To Jeff C's point, the work I do absolutely requires both a physical Ethernet port and an RS-232 port. (I am, in fact, using both of them in the background as I type this to load new firmware into a batch of SBCs.) So it's nice to see some support there. That machine is definitely going onto the list for when TunerStudioDroid comes out.

No USB ports on the tablet itself; only on the keyboard dock. Badass but of no use in a datacenter without the dock.

Sidenote: FTDI has android drivers.

I agree...and yet I still want one.

There is a ridiculously expensive serial adapter for iphone/ipad. Plugs into the dock port and the other end terminates with RJ45. If I had any sort of apple product to use it with I'd have to convince my boss to buy one.

I can't find a ASUS Eee Pad Transformer prime anywhere. Is it the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF101-(A1/16gb B1/32gb)?


nope, figured it out. TEGRA 3 is not out yet.

next month

Ya was looking for a preorder site but nothing. emailed info to higher up. we are getting at lest 2 with docks.

best part about the transformer
http://www.tegrazone.com/