Right. So you're using a very heavy "modern" web browser (http://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-1702537477) that's designed for desktop use, and are trying to use it as a benchmark for a device that's a tablet.

Let's take this slowly:

*This is a tablet.
*It has the ability to drop into desktop mode and run normal desktop apps. This doesn't mean it's a good idea.
*Chrome is designed for the desktop, and has RAM usage to suit this environment.
*Chrome does not have a release that is suitable for the tablet mode in Windows 10 (it's not even on the store). Google have not released one. This is exactly the same as Chrome on Android being a different build to Chrome on the desktop. Would you also complain about the desktop version of Chrome not working on a 1GB Android device?
*There are other browsers that are designed to work in a lower RAM environment. Microsoft Edge is one, but there are others.

You can keep waiting for screenshots. It's not like you can't Google for reviews of these 1GB tablets, almost any variant will do....they will all tell you how suitable they are for browsing, Skype, Youtube and the like, but not a lot more.

Seriously, there is so much you could complain about with a Windows 10 tablet: The need for anti-virus due to it being a true PC, a really lacking apps store, or that occasionally a Windows update will get in the way of you using it....but you insist on picking a non-issue that multiple people in this thread are telling you works fine.
All on a £30 device. Madness.

You use Chrome as a benchmark? soon as I read that your comment is null and void. Then you go on about memory with pages open, and word and excel and music streaming... if you got all that open then its not the tablet that's the issue, its the user using a device for something its not designed for. And you comment about grass on other side... I bet your turf costs more than £29. Suggest you jog on before your comments look even more silly.

Regards
Flea

Love all these people who quote 1GB and it must be garbage. Keep telling yourself that while the rest of the world gets on just fine with Windows 10 and 1GB. :smile:

Regards
Flea

564 in stock!! That's a lot of returns, does that say something about the product?

Remember to back your files up as SSD's are prone to going belly up without warning and losing your data. This is especially true if you don't shut down your PC correctly:
http://www.tlc-business.co.uk/uploads/assets/Clients/BVM/Solid%20State%20Disks%20in%20Embedded%20Systems%20-%20BVM.pdf

Got mine, and I am please. The office license says it is expired - is that different from being used? Any idea whether the 10 pounds of blinkbox credit still apply?

Otherwise it is a decent tablet. Upgrade to Windows 10 worked fine, and it looks like new. It is not quite the same as the Linx 7 - the case is certainly a bit different.

And there are 5 contacts for a docking cradle or a maintenance adapter - any idea what they could be good for? It might be a USB port, or something more complicated.

I have sold office 365 for £25 earlier. So then it makes the linx 7 (brand new) only £15.
I just installed office 2007. That's what my PC runs and had no issues.

I've just received the Linx and was intending, like others to sell Office 365, but there was no activation code in the box. Is it on the tablet itself somewhere, or what? Many thanks for any help!

Mine is certainly used, and the office licence has been too, but I'm still going to keep it as I can see it being useful.

Got mine, top part of the touchscreen doesn't appear to work at all :disappointed: back it goes!

Got mine absolutely love it with win 10 on what a steal. Sold my fire 7

I received mine today, filthy condition and screen scratched up. Repacked it and raised a return.

Mine hasn't arrived yet, but I've read of a few people with various windows tablets losing drivers during the windows 10 upgrade and others with exactly the same tablets going through fine. Seems rather hit and miss.

When I switched on the tablet, after initial setup, took around 10 mins. It asked me to update to Windows 10. I said yes and it took around 30-40 mins. On Windows 10 it was very laggy and camera did not work. So I downgraded back to Windows 8 and it worked superb.

Then I done Windows update and updated around 30 security updates (400mb) and then I upgraded to Windows 10 and this time it worked perfectly. Smooth and camera working too. Thought I'd share my experience.

Received mines today. There was a sticker covering the Office 365 on the box but when I went register Office 365 on the tablet it went through for 12 month subscription.

Got my 2 today, excellent bit of kit, the other half loves it, looks like I might be getting some favours :sunglasses:, cheers OP.

Could I appeal to any gurus out there. I upgraded this tablet from 8.1 to 10 a while ago and freezing is a real problem, usually with 10 mins of youtube or netflix. Did anyone else come across this and fix it?

A complete freeze, unresponsive screen needing a hard reboot. Before it does this performance is fine and video playback is also fine.

​Yes! That was maybe the major issue. The second biggest was when you wanted to scroll through a list, it registered the swipe as a click.

There is a Google app in the Windows store which will play YouTube inside it as a modern ui app. To be honest you're better off with your normal desktop browser like Firefox or Chrome as they will support all the extensions you're used to using.

what would be better for youtube , reading PDFs and general web browsing.

this or the amazon fire 7 that was recently £35!

Spot on 1gb is fine, its the old 512mb tablets that are pants.
Its a good tablet but unfortunately there is always a reason for these dramatic price flurries.

The Linx7 tablet new is now £39.

Which I'm assuming isn't an atom based system with 1gb of ram and a 32gb eMMC?

My drives write speed will drop to about 60% if it goes a few weeks without a TRIM operation. I don't tend to notice it because those speeds are still high and with the amount of ram I have and the way Windows intelligently uses it I'm only going to notice if I run a benchmark or start doing large amounts of file transfers. Day to day running isn't affected.

But a system like this short on ram, with an eMMC which is already slower than a desktop SSD you're going to feel the effect in it's responsiveness. It's write operations which are slowed, which is something that will impact even opening apps as Windows makes space in memory by writing it to the swapfile.

I'm glad your system runs tip top and all, but I'm doubting your system is comparable. And there is plenty of anecdotal reports over the web of performance suffering as users allow their system NAND to become full be it Windows or Android and there is measurable evidence of it's affects.

looks like the soon to be defunct hudl2 to me

1GB Windows is equivalent to 2GB Android.

Not sure if this is it. "Fixes side flyout appearing when using touch"

http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-2-isengard-release-candidate/

I've used Kodi on an iPod before but I have no way of really streaming it to my TV, touch seemed fine on it but it did take a while to load streams

What would be better to just run Kodi, this, Linx 7 or a Fire TV stick?

Hfggggggg

Glad I ordered one in the morning. Price gone up now. Would not buy it for £36.50 for a refurbished unit without Office. Now its better to buy Linx 7 New with 365. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191398987339?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

seems like the price has gone up by and is now £34 + 2.50 P&P

Expired, now £34.

How Much Cost ??
Put the Price, next time you sharing a deal Here !

Yeah what he said

Yes. Change your system drive to SSD and it will boot up as quickly as your tablet or faster. Best upgrade you can do to your PC, especially now that SSDs have become so cheap.

Now showing as £34 although the description states £29

will this run executables?

will the £1 hudl 7" soft case fit this? or are there any other cheap ones people could reccomend?

With 2.50 postage. Making it 2.50 less than the linx deal WITH 365.. Sold COLD

Gone up to 35 now.

Yes, something IS wrong, too little ram to run a windows operating system AND a Web browser simultaneously!

I was relating it to my £55, branded (Acer) tablet which is now £75 again. It's a waste of £30 as far as I'm concerned; I know all too well why I paid 5 times more than this tablet under scrutiny costs for my Galaxy Tab but from experience of a Windows tablet with similar specs I'd not recommend it due to the frustration it'll cause the owner :neutral_face:

it's very bad specced. better keep my 29 and with a bit more buy a decent one. cold

Heat good find

Grow up and get out a bit more.

Thanks. Bought this one over the Linx, identical spec and I don't need office plus selling keys on Ebay is not allowed only physical products. Seems to work ok with Win 10 upgrade and decent spare tablet.

decided to go for linx 7 and sell off the office goodness, seems like a better deal with some effort

I think it's because people reply to my comments trying to correct me with their nonsense.
I feel compelled to reply.

thanks

Admittedly I'm a severe android fan, but windows is simply unbearable on a 7" tablet, imho of course.

If I'm completely honest I haven't touched it for three weeks, I mainly use an Android tablet. Not because of the lack of performance etc, but because of the app availability and apps that are designed relative to screen size.

I haven't bothered updating to Windows 10 yet.

But one thing I can say is the startup time on this tablet is amazingly good. It boots up in under 12 seconds for me. It amazes me how such a small thing with a low end processor and limited RAM can boot up significantly faster than my Lenovo laptop with a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM. I do suppose this has a lot to do with the fact the Connect tablet has flash storage whereas my Lenovo has a slower mechanical hard drive

Did you upgrade it to Windows 10? How is it running since if you did? As that's what I'm interested in testing with this

anyone have a link for the linx 7

my problem is the lack of reviews even amazon doesnt stock them and it doesnt specify resolution in ebay page i like things in writing

says does not come with one year of office

you will always get some idiot who hates a perfect deal and that stops people posting good deals like this some people forget these screens were the benchmark untill 2 years ago

What quality would the 2mp camera be like for photos?

Bit worried now, how can they have over 500 refurbished units in stock. I hope they don't start cancelling and refunding orders this morning. Wonder if they have over sold. I don't care if the tablet is slow, just want it for emails and you tube, well worth it for £29.

£30.00 + £2.50 :disappointed:

New one and sell the key it is then :stuck_out_tongue:

+ inreased price to 30

They've added £2.50 to delivery by the looks of it making it £31.50 all in

I am intrigued. obviously you are not interested in this tablet, how come you keep posting on this thread?

Can you please brief me how can I use my linx 365 Sub on my other PC.
Thank you in advance

I bought the Linx 7 instead, sold the 1 year subscription to Office 365 for £25 and it comes out way cheaper than this deal.

Also, for people saying 1GB isn't enough, what are you planning to do on a tablet? I can play Hearthstone on low settings at native resolution and it's smooth as butter. I love having a small Windows machine on a tablet, browsing and gaming is fine for me.

You'd be better off buying the linx 7 for £39 and selling the 365 sub for £25 on ebay

Not bothered about Office 365, will be using Office 2007 which I have ready on a USB stick, just copy over and install. Also, I just received my dispatch note with tracking number (royal mail 48).

"PLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM DOES NOT COME WITH 1 -YEAR SUBSCRIPTION OF OFFICE 365 AS SPECIFIED ON THE BOX "

Very good price but personally don't get on with windows tablets at all. Have an HP one with 8.1 on it and it's appalling.

There's a chance that the office 365 sub hasn't been used. I was foolish enough to return one without using it.

This or the Linx 7 for £40?

If nowt else it'll make a good plex remote!

Bought 2 cheers!

Ordered out of curiosity, never used a windows tablet before.

Only £27 with the £1 hudl case and 10%, £3 discount too.

I have used the same SSD for several years, has been full several times, and I haven't noticed any degradation of performance...
That's based on real life experience, as opposed to some academic explanation.

£29 is a bargain. Buy 2 and you get 10% off making it only £26.10 for each tablet + free delivery = madness!

Please don't speak for others... not all of us are sheep... still using Windows 7 myself despite Microsoft trying to force me to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. The rest of the world is definitely not using Windows 10... only some people are.

thanks OP ordered two for 26 each first window tablet so will update on speed issue, about multi tasking, how many things u can do on 7inch at the same time? u can either use youtube or IE or play a game its a tab not a mac

Right! But you still haven't explained why the device would slow down when the main storage gets full... I would love to have an explanation...

As explained in special relativity mass only increases the closer velocity gets to the speed of light. Slowing down would therefore reduce mass in line with E=MC²

... and get heavier too?

Once upon a time there was Window it ran on mb's of ram (shock)! Then there was vista which ran on gb's of ram, people were angry at Windows, they knew they had been bad but the damage was done :disappointed:

Then Windows made 10 to show that they knew how to manage hardware beers and made the OS to run on low spec machines to make the OS have more user uptake. People don't believe it and still moan about Win10 needing more RAM!

It works on 1gb you won't be editing movies or playing awesome games but it works.

P.S there was a company called Google that has followed the same path as Microsoft but no-one has moaned about the hardware requirements.... Yet

Please can someone confirm whether kodi can be installed into this?

Great price! I got the Connect 7 for my sister a few weeks ago when it was £34.99. Put a tempered glass protector on and bought a glittery stylus for her http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221726900577 (2 for 99p). The Windows 10 upgrade took a week or so to appear.

Bought one thanks. £27 cant be bad.
Get a £1 case for hudl and you'll get £3 off

is it really 32gb SSD?

nomnomnomnom , we LOVE YOU! :smile: *applause*

decided to cancel, already got the fire which arrived today im being impulsive. would have been nice to have a windows tab though!

Could someone tell if you could run kodi smoothly on this ..to be able to do that alone will be enough for me ..cheers

1GB of ram is not really enough! My Acer W8 tab, now upgraded to W10, grinds to a halt when you ask it to even play video in a browser AND the All4 Winblows app doesn't even provide audio :disappointed:

Oooh I'm trying so hard to resist !!

But it's so hard!!

The windows home button is poorly located at the top side of the tablet if using in portrait. Thankfully W10 will help better in navigation with the bar

If you add The tesco Hudl case at £1 from here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291243480833 with this tablet you'll get 10% off the entire order, therefore a total cost of £27 saving a massive £2!

Ya sold it on eBay. Well eBay + PayPal charge = 13.4%.

I think it's a one year valid code

Wow. That's cheap. HDMI out too.
I had a Linx 7 & they discharge even if plugged in so not great as a Kodi or torrent box.

ffs, already got an amazon fire coming but really fancied a windows tab so ordered this aswell lol!!

Hang on... They've got how many refurbished (198 sold so far, more than 10 left)...
What does that say about product quality / usability ?

You can browse the store on any device and see what is available :smiley: : https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/apps

On the other hand for watching stuff on the move seems a good deal with 32gb storage.

Hmmmm so maybe I try to refrain. The fire was 35 now this at 30 maybe if lucky an android based one will come around at the same price lol. It's a shame to hear the app market isn't as good that's what I fear. Also it looks way harder to get to grips with than android. I went from w7 to w10 on laptop and I'm not a huge fan :$

ahhhhh!!! i dont need a tablet. bought a fire 7 for mother still to get it set up.
tempted to bite at this for myself but not sure how i feel about windows, what is the market/app store like? i'm used to android ..... trusty android.

I bought it to read comics on in my lunch break. My missus has a 7" Windows tab and it's not bad.

29 GBP? Bargain!

And which tablet at this price point has 2GB of RAM? I have a Windows 7 tablet with 1GB of RAM and it works fine. However, the lack of an Office 365 sub would put me off as, even if not required, they can be sold for £20-£30.

564 in stock!! That's a lot of returns, does that say something about the product?

This is sold by eBay Tesco Outlet and you get the Tesco 12 months warranty too.

Wrong again on so many levels.

Edge is the default/browser of choice with a Windows 10 installation not IE. And now you go from multitasking, with Word, Excel, music streaming and multiple tabs in a browser to a few tabs, one with music and word. This would easily be handled with 1GB of ram using Edge with steaming and Word 2016. Chrome isn't a modern browser, its a browser based upon Chromium open source with added insecurity and privacy issues, anyone in the know, knows this, please keep up with the 21st century and at least base your comments on fact.

Just read the posts, there's loads saying 1GB is fine, and only one that disagrees.

Keep that back peddling. Keep believing in Chrome, your nearly there, nearly a full troll.

Regards
Flea

Wonder how many they got left in stock.

Don't want to mess around with selling office. You reckon this one is ok,warranty wise as would rather deal with Tesco than unknown seller on ebay

Here is a review I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvv774EfVc8

Cold, Pay extra £10 and get a LINX 7 with Office 365 subs including installation of a second Desktop PC from ebay

Linx and this one are the same tablets. Is it?

Right. So you're using a very heavy "modern" web browser (http://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-1702537477) that's designed for desktop use, and are trying to use it as a benchmark for a device that's a tablet.

Let's take this slowly:

*This is a tablet.
*It has the ability to drop into desktop mode and run normal desktop apps. This doesn't mean it's a good idea.
*Chrome is designed for the desktop, and has RAM usage to suit this environment.
*Chrome does not have a release that is suitable for the tablet mode in Windows 10 (it's not even on the store). Google have not released one. This is exactly the same as Chrome on Android being a different build to Chrome on the desktop. Would you also complain about the desktop version of Chrome not working on a 1GB Android device?
*There are other browsers that are designed to work in a lower RAM environment. Microsoft Edge is one, but there are others.

You can keep waiting for screenshots. It's not like you can't Google for reviews of these 1GB tablets, almost any variant will do....they will all tell you how suitable they are for browsing, Skype, Youtube and the like, but not a lot more.

Seriously, there is so much you could complain about with a Windows 10 tablet: The need for anti-virus due to it being a true PC, a really lacking apps store, or that occasionally a Windows update will get in the way of you using it....but you insist on picking a non-issue that multiple people in this thread are telling you works fine.
All on a £30 device. Madness.

Under 30 quid and it doesn't even run crysis a game from almost 10 years ago!!!!



Just kidding, was looking for something to use as a little media system that's a little more capable than my kindle fire stick (running kodi) or my chrome cast, this looks ideal, just need to find a cheap little case and a decent bluetooth keyboard / touchpad for it.

Desktop device?
What do you propose then? A mobile browser?

What a fool. Love to hear your answer.
Clearly the intended target for such a machine. Enjoy.

Nice find and cheap shame it was not a bigger screen

I'm sorry for using a modern web browser as a real world benchmark. The most popular web browser in the world.
Some of us use something other than the amazingly incredible Internet Explorer.
You're complaining about me wanting this tab to be able to do a mild bit of multitasking? Having a few tabs open with one streaming music and perhaps a word document open at the same time is far from unreasonable in this day and age. If it can't manage that then it's no good.

Still waiting for screen shots of memory usage. Even idle ones if you're so allergic to Chrome.

New description "this does not come with 365"

Ahahahahaah. Chrome.

Why the heck are you talking about using this as a full blown desktop device for 30 quid? You're making yourself look silly.

Ditto, i've got the stream 7 too and it's fine. It's not going to win any speed races, but it's perfectly adequate for web browsing and the like.

At £30, as long as you get one in good condition, this is great value.

I bought the HP stream a while back. 32GB storage and 1GB ram. Same specs as this, except this is using a slighter better processor. Works like a treat. The windows operating systems is really good, light weight. I liked south I have recently bought the linx 10.

You use Chrome as a benchmark? soon as I read that your comment is null and void. Then you go on about memory with pages open, and word and excel and music streaming... if you got all that open then its not the tablet that's the issue, its the user using a device for something its not designed for. And you comment about grass on other side... I bet your turf costs more than £29. Suggest you jog on before your comments look even more silly.

Regards
Flea

How does this compare to the cheap HP stream that was £49 a while ago? I still have and use it a fair bit.

Nope but I know how much memory Chrome alone uses up and don't want to be throwing good money away.
1GB RAM on a Windows machine now a days is like running the appalling 1366x768 screen resolution. Sure you'll get many people saying it's fine and perfectly usable but to anyone who's felt the grass on the other side knows how terrible it really is.

To anyone saying 1GB is perfectly fine, I'd love to see your memory usage at idle and during normal use. A few web pages, music streaming, word/excel open etc.

Something to take out and not care if it gets stolen. Hot

Crazy price even if it's rubbish I'm sure I'll find some use for it might be even good to do Bluetooth diagnosis on cars with the right dongle

Found what and why have you got a picture of my son on your profile picture

Have you tried one?
I have a HP Stream 7 with 1Gb and it works very well indeed.

If only 4gb ram and 1tb hdd it 7inch screen for £20.00

OK have fun.
Swap file anyone?

So buy it, use it and then couple of days later ... send back to Tesco because you will hate performance on this. Yes at £29 it may be a good toy , but remember that Tesco had more 564 units for sale not without the reason.

Agree

I'll stick to a brand new linx7 with office 365 for a tenner more

Love all these people who quote 1GB and it must be garbage. Keep telling yourself that while the rest of the world gets on just fine with Windows 10 and 1GB. :smile:

Regards
Flea

1GB Ram ? hahaha... not surprised they are selling so cheap

Incredibly cheap! I got the Linx recently and have been quite impressed with it so far

If it's anything like the Linx, 1Gb RAM works better than expected.

HDMI port too, so could even make a cheap media player for your TV.

hmm this or the Amazon fire 7 ?
Only needs to be able to read PDF's and a bit you youtube

Don't buy from Tesco Outlet, you will be severely disappointed even at these prices.

Was looking at buying a usb, slide-show picture frame but as this is so much cheaper, would this work instead? The tablet won't be used for anything else, so I'm assuming only 1 GB ram would suffice.

I am saying banana and you carrot ???

Absolute bargain even with 1gb..Great to keep kids occupied..Hot

Would this be a good option who just wants to watch videos (Youtube/Netflix/Twitch ect)?

Scorching - 10 percent off if you buy 2 plus 3 percent TCB!

Shoot me now ....

They may as well pay me to take it.