After the advent of inexpensive “tablets” on sale, many users of personal PCs who dream of acquiring a popular mobile gadget faced a difficult dilemma. It’s quite difficult to decide which is better: to collect enough money to buy a device from one of the well-known manufacturers or to save and buy a product at a reasonable price of Chinese production? On the one hand, cheap tablets are worrying, and on the other, I don’t want to overpay for the brand. Let's try together to deal with this difficult task.
Cons
Can cheap tablets be good? Now on the shelves of online stores, there are often such models of “pills” that you can only recommend to your sworn enemy to buy. Sometimes the number of oddities and shortcomings that some seven-inch monsters show, simply amazes even the most experienced user. I would like to ask some manufacturers: "Why release such garbage?" After all, many people who are so interested in cheap tablets that they decided to buy them, after inevitable disappointment, will surely complain to their friends, and they will share information with their friends, as a result, the image of the manufacturer will fall below the plinth. I don’t know how for you, but for me it remains a real mystery. In order not to be unfounded, we note what users who are attracted to cheap tablets may encounter:
- The lack of a Wi-Fi module, although the price tag claims the opposite.
- Low battery capacity.
- Insufficient RAM capacity.
All this negates the gain in price, because it is practically impossible to normally use such "freaks". For those who are interested in how much the tablet costs cheaply, we note that the border between too budget and fairly tolerable models is around $ 100.
The pros
In the first half of September 2013, Brian Krzhanich, executive director of the giant Intel, said in an interview that today, cheap tablets have received a “green light”, and soon the price of new devices from this company will nevertheless drop below a hundred dollar mark. It is still unknown what operating system they will work under - Android or Windows, because Atom crystals can support both Google and Microsoft platforms. It is unlikely that such a well-known company will neglect quality, because the loss of image for today's leaders, unlike Chinese little-known companies, in conditions of fierce competition, is simply unacceptable. Among the popular brands, the Nexus 7 8MB from Google for the price of more than $ 170 is still leading in price, but will it be able to maintain its position until the end of the year? After all, he recently had a worthy opponent from HP - the seven-inch Slate 7 tablet, whose price is about the same level. Time will tell.
Summary
From the foregoing, the following conclusion suggests itself: if the highest priority in buying a tablet is price, then it is best to focus on the well-known and well-proven seven-inch models of famous market leaders. Well, if you are still interested in large-screen gadgets, you will have to wait a little longer, the technical revolution will do its job very quickly, and prices will continue to fall. As for the “Chinese,” here, with rare exceptions, the saying that the avaricious pays twice is justified.