Tablets

Apple is pretty user friendly, but I'd also recommend them for people who have a hard time learning new tech or more often than not just seem unwilling to try, because the first thing they'll do is spend weeks learning it and then brag about it, when just weeks earlier they were complaining and refusing to learn anything new on the old platform they were struggling to use because they learned how to use a product of that same name 15 years ago so why should it be so different garsh darn it!

Okay, so what's a reasonable price for an Apple iPad Air 2? All I care about is WiFi and the cheapest I can find on Amazon is ~$440. Honestly, other tablets, like the Samsung Tab S or whatever, isn't exactly way cheaper.

Was gonna ask recommendations on tablets a few weeks ago when my Shield Portable had an issue with the flex cable and lost display except for a few seconds when I first powered up. Was 4 months over the year warranty so I figured I was screwed. But I contacted Nvidia to see if there was a way to repair it or at least get spare parts. I mentioned how disappointed I was since my Shield was bought with a GTX780 for remote gaming and now half the point I got it all was useless. After some questions and me supplying invoice and serial number they issued an RMA. Most hassle free RMA ever, and I wasn't even really expecting or asking for one! Pretty awesome of them, and the kind of thing that will definitely keep my business.

ShakyJake_sl said:

Okay, so what's a reasonable price for an Apple iPad Air 2? All I care about is WiFi and the cheapest I can find on Amazon is ~$440. Honestly, other tablets, like the Samsung Tab S or whatever, isn't exactly way cheaper.

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Look on Ebay. Refurb tablets for WAY cheaper than you'll find anywhere else. Lots of pro sellers, not private sellers, have all the different variations in stock, and you just choose the options you want.

ShakyJake_sl said:

Okay, so what's a reasonable price for an Apple iPad Air 2? All I care about is WiFi and the cheapest I can find on Amazon is ~$440. Honestly, other tablets, like the Samsung Tab S or whatever, isn't exactly way cheaper.

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Get one from the Apple refurb store. They replace a lot of stuff, and give a warranty on top of it. A real Apple warranty, not some BS crap. As good as new, for less than new.

Shop Refurbished iPad - Apple Certified Refurbished iPad Air 2 - Apple Store (U.S.)

I bought an Air 2 today, and it's a marvelous device. I bought mine new, but the $420 Apple refurb is anEASYbuy.

The thing is fast, laughably fast. No lag anywhere, wonderful screen, really decent camera. Light and easy as hell to hold with 3 fingers+small palm. Yeah, responsive, too. Really responsive. Two speaker sound is OK, but way too much bass. I'm surprised they haven't centralized the speakers and used differential porting to give nice stereo sound in both orientations. But...whatever. It's a fantastic device. Get you one.

So, I have a question for those of you with iPads. Let me first explain what my primary tablet use case is. It is for viewing Comics. Specifically cbz files held on my NAS drive. I wish to access these as if the NAS were a Samba share ie streamed not copied to the device on open. The use case would be to open the comic browsing app, navigate to the network share (shared in iTunes) and look at the file.
Now, I have been using Android tablets to do this but rooting and getting custom ROM with Samba enabled is proving more and more of a colossal pain in the ass. This is literally my only use of tablets apart from light shitter browsing so I don't really care about what ecosystem I use.
Simple question then, does the network share exposed via iTunes behave like a Samba share or does it just try to copy the content locally to the device?

Intrinsic_sl said:

Hmm I use Perfect Viewer and browse / point it to my NAS to view comics just fine on my Nexus 7 tablet. It is possible I had to root to do this, but if so it was so long ago I forgot, but no custom ROM.

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Thanks. However, I just tried PV on a rooted Nexus7. It lets me set up the LAN share but doesn't show any folders.
The question remains for iOS though. Any takers?

The Kindle Fire HD Kids Edition made it to Germany! Yay!
Anyone here who used it? How good is the "no questions asked" warranty thing really?
Or should I just buy a real small-size tablet + case and hope for the best?

The kid is turning three in July but I like to be informed way ahead of time. Might get her one for the fourth or fifth birthday. I know she'll want one.
Unfortunately only the 6" version is available here so far so I'm waiting anyway, that's mighty small.