Good price, back down to near black Friday levels.
M3 so no noisy fan to irritate.
4gb RAM so no time inefficiency due to attempting to simultaneously juggle 20 open Chrome tabs.
128gb to ensure your family is backing up thousands of old photos to an external HDD and the cloud instead.
Potentially a further £40 off with the BGT vouchers here: http://ao.com/bgt
All comments (27)
M0nk3h
29 Apr 17#1
Argh, this is *seems* an exceptional deal but is it worth it for the Core M3? I'm after a new tablet. At first I was put off but it seems more logical compared to getting say a Tab S3.
The only thing that puts me off is the fact that it seems more of a laptop than a tablet, would I be better just getting an Android/iOS tablet?
jiraiya to M0nk3h
29 Apr 17#6
im in a similar boat. I was aiming to get a new Android tablet as I just love how Android just works, it's incredibly stable a has versatile functionality via the millions of high quality apps. I'm kinda really only drawn to this because it's a high quality build and finish tablet at a good price, but I just know I'm gonna really hate the tablet performance of Windows 10, it's not as efficient as Android OS and just doesn't have the apps for easy functionality on the go to the same extent as Android. Only real reason to get this over an Android tablet is if you need to use professional productivity apps on the go like, Photoshop, or CAD programs for example, which I think the M3 can just about handle according to one of the reviews I read. The only other issue holding me back is the fact that 5 months ago the deals were slightly better... where you could get an i5 for less than £100 more with pen and keyboard... as for the M3 deals, I think the deal is pretty competitive in Comparison to black Friday deals 6 or so months ago...
makkan00
29 Apr 171#2
It is showing £599 on that website. How do you get it for £559?
jiraiya
29 Apr 171#3
cant see the bgt vouchers and price is 599.99
jiraiya
29 Apr 17#4
can get it down to 574 with voucher Mdace25... aside from that no other relevant vouchers I can see..
jiraiya
29 Apr 171#5
I see you have to enter a draw for the 40 pound voucher .... I got 30 off but not the 40... pretty good deal 569... but during black Friday I think it was around 100 quid more for the i5 with pen and keyboard cover... hmmm decisions...
Thanks for the heads up OP btw...:smiley:
M0nk3h
29 Apr 171#7
Personally, Microsoft don't need a great app store to some degree to compete with tablets. On one hand, their app store isn't great but then they have the power of thousands and millions of .EXE applications already available and that have been around for years and years.
I love Android and iOS but both have got a long way to go. Microsoft have demonstrated we can have a fully fledged desktop and os on a tablet and not a separate os with a restrictive nature.
I wouldn't be afraid of tablet performance. If it's any comparison, I had a £40 Windows 10 tablet and the performance was very surprising for low end spec (Atom Z8350, 2GB).
I'd sold my iPad in preparation for buying a Surface the next day, then I found out the deals had gone off. I only question whether to get one because Android have the advantage of being cheaper, probably, due to their Snapdragon SoC. If they brought out an Arm based Surface I could see costs coming down.
tomhood98
29 Apr 171#8
i bought this 2nd hand surface pro of ebay for £117 and it's perfect, released in 2013 but the hardware is better than any android hardware. granted it almost weighs 1kg and is near 1 inch thick. its a full pc and a tablet. most android apps are based on windows exe's anyway. instead of paying £559 for an m3 processor, you should be able to find an older, used surface with an i5 for much cheaper. and by the way, the pen input and onenote is fantastic. you can import a full pdf of say a past exam paper and annotate directly over it, as if it was printed out before you.
HotBot
29 Apr 172#9
If your primary use will be in tablet mode then just buy a tablet!
Windows 10 is not the best tablet experience so why suffer the extra weight and lower battery life? A 9.6" iPad (£339 with 3 year warranty from JL) or Android tablet will be a much nicer tablet experience. With the money you save put it toward a conventional laptop if you need full Windows programs and features.
However, if you are mainly using as a laptop replacement with only minor tablet use then it may be worth considering. Then again you can get a Lenovo YOGA 510 14" 2 in 1 with 128GB SSD for £379 at the moment t so this may be a better buy and leaves money to buy a tablet as well!
Since this includes the pen and keyboard it is a good price but the title (headline) price needs changing to £599 as the discount is not guaranteed.
FRZ to HotBot
30 Apr 17#14
If only the Lenovo had a better CPU :disappointed:
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M3 so no noisy fan to irritate.
4gb RAM so no time inefficiency due to attempting to simultaneously juggle 20 open Chrome tabs.
128gb to ensure your family is backing up thousands of old photos to an external HDD and the cloud instead.
Potentially a further £40 off with the BGT vouchers here: http://ao.com/bgt
All comments (27)
The only thing that puts me off is the fact that it seems more of a laptop than a tablet, would I be better just getting an Android/iOS tablet?
Thanks for the heads up OP btw...:smiley:
I love Android and iOS but both have got a long way to go. Microsoft have demonstrated we can have a fully fledged desktop and os on a tablet and not a separate os with a restrictive nature.
I wouldn't be afraid of tablet performance. If it's any comparison, I had a £40 Windows 10 tablet and the performance was very surprising for low end spec (Atom Z8350, 2GB).
I'd sold my iPad in preparation for buying a Surface the next day, then I found out the deals had gone off. I only question whether to get one because Android have the advantage of being cheaper, probably, due to their Snapdragon SoC. If they brought out an Arm based Surface I could see costs coming down.
Windows 10 is not the best tablet experience so why suffer the extra weight and lower battery life? A 9.6" iPad (£339 with 3 year warranty from JL) or Android tablet will be a much nicer tablet experience. With the money you save put it toward a conventional laptop if you need full Windows programs and features.
However, if you are mainly using as a laptop replacement with only minor tablet use then it may be worth considering. Then again you can get a Lenovo YOGA 510 14" 2 in 1 with 128GB SSD for £379 at the moment t so this may be a better buy and leaves money to buy a tablet as well!
Since this includes the pen and keyboard it is a good price but the title (headline) price needs changing to £599 as the discount is not guaranteed.