Saturday, 25 January 2014

Its been so long and...

*I GOT SO FAR, IN THE END IT* seems to been quite enjoyable. It really has been an age since I have made a post. I have now moved again to Belfast and went through Semester 1 of my Second Year in University. The modules were not great but I have enjoyed the time spent in university all the same. I really do wonder if anyone is doing the whole "drink, drugs, slacking and uni" thing because I have yet to find 3 within my year (I say 3 because I have found 2 but unsure if they would be doing anything else in any other circumstances).

That semester had a massive portion of it dedicated to travel. When I took the bus it was, for the whole day, 5 hours and 50 min which does not include waiting times between buses. With the train we add on one more hour but I did decide on this on some days because I was able to work on the laptop rather than just notepads. As you can imagine working on a computer is quite a bit better for me as I am programming. I have now been trying to decide on a tablet because I think that this will allow me to work on the but and not have to sacrifice that extra hour a day on just pure travel. Started to see what would be available to me on the contract that I already have as I have an upgrade coming up but it seemed that of the ones available I would be paying more that £45 a month for a decent one. So now my decision is to go pay as you go on the phone (and pick up a new phone another time) and get tablet through a different contract directly for the product that I want. This also seems to be the cheaper of the options as well as I can pick up the same length of contract for about 1/3 of the price. The current struggle is 1) between android and windows 2)Stylus or No Stylus 3)Keyboard hard or soft? So because of this below are the current ideas that I am mulling with.

Asus Vivo Tablet PC TF810C, Intel Atom Z2760, 2GB RAM, 64GB Flash, 11.6" HD Touch, 2 Cameras, Bluetooth, Windows 8 

Asus Vivo Tablet PC - £449.99 - Link
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Asus TF701T Transformer Tablet PC, NVIDIA Tegra 4 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, 10.1" Touch, Wifi, 2 Cameras, Bluetooth, Android JellyBean 4.2
Asus TF701T Transformer Tablet PC - £429.00 - Link
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Acer Iconia W700p Tablet PC, Intel Core i5-3317U 1.7GHz, 4GB RAM, 128GB Flash, 11.6" Touch, Camera, Wifi, Bluetooth, Windows 8 Pro - Includes Keyboard Case
Acer Iconia W700p Tablet PC - £680.99 - Link
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Samsung Galaxy Note - £356.00 - Link
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Samsung Galaxy Note, Big Core 1.9GHz Quad + Little core 1.3GHz, 16GB Flash, 3GB RAM, 10.1" Touch, Wifi, Bluetooth, 2 Cameras, Android - 2014 Ed
Samsung Galaxy Note 2014 - £422.50 - Link
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Tablet PC, Dual Core CPU 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB HDD, 10.1" Touch, 2 Camera, Wifi, Bluetooth, Android 4.2
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 - £303.10 - Link 
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 Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Dual Core CPU 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB Flash, 10.1" Touch, Wifi, Bluetooth, 2 Cameras, Android 4.2
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 - £280.49 - Link
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