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Full Win8.1 tablet for £89 - what's the catch?


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The HP Stream 7 was £49.99 on the Microsoft Store earlier in the week... Full Win8.1 on that too. Not sure if it's still available as the Hot UK Deals community got whiff of it.

 

It was the 'signature' edition too so comes without any HP bloatware

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It looks pretty much the same specification as Argos' own-brand tablet, a review of which is here:

 

Bush MyTablet 8 - the £100 Windows tablet | PC Pro

 

If you just want something for Office and web browsing, it should do very nicly - actually, if you want a year's subscription to Office 365 it's cheaper to buy one of these tablets with a year's subscription included.

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well the lynx 10 is a pile of insert expletive set up 18 of them and it took forever just to install office and sophos and the wireless is pants some need rebooting fairly regularly or they just get limited connection/deny all knowledge of the wifi
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That may be the case in a school but I have a lynx 10 and it hasn't let me down yet - connectivity is fast, and I haven't lost the wireless once in 3 months
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They're pretty decent for home use. The Missus has the Linx 7. Nice screen, nice feel. Runs 8.1 no problem, everything runs quickly, videos work just fine, office 365 subscription is a nice touch.

 

Overall, very good value.

 

Not sure about putting them into production on a networked environment though.

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Thanks everyone, that's really useful input. There may be more questions like this from me in the coming months, as we're about to launch BYOD so parents are emailing asking for advice on various tablets.
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I'd say 2GB RAM should be a minimum. I tested a Lynx 7 and 10 recently and the was a noticeable difference between the two in terms of how fluid the OS was on the 10.
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Yep, there was a £25 discount code that brought it down to £49.99 up until yesterday. Keeping fingers crossed somebody finds another code as would quite like one to run network diagnostic software and other bits & pieces on
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would quite like one to run network diagnostic software and other bits & pieces on

I was thinking something similar, actually...

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