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I have just move on from a net book to a tablet (Galaxy note 10.1) as the ports in my netbook had become worn and no longer worked with my dongle. Niether of these machines had a CD rom, but for me I just wanted something more portable to take away in the caravan with me, and to play a few games on with the grandkids whilst out and about in the car, so the tablet works well for this, BUT, if I was to have to chose between these and one of the new lightweight high spec latops, the laptop would win hands down for being more practical, having loads of storage space, larger screen, adaptability, and loads of power. the only downside is that the games for laptops and Pcs are far more expensive than they are for tablets, but being as laptops are not so restricted for storage space on the hard drive, the games are often better both in graphics and content. The thing that suprised me though, was the fact that most of my favorite games over the years from the notebook and lappy did not have an app vesion available for the tablet.

By a stroke of Luck last week, a friend was upgrading his work laptop from his business, and hearing that my old netbook had finally died as far as the internet was concerned, he kindly  donated his old one to me, which infact is only 2years old, and is a top of the range proffesional laptop, so I was lucky to get both a tablet and new to me Lappy in the same week.  He even got the tech guys at work to clean and install a new copy of windows for me, so its all as good as new, the only downside, and the reason he upgraded, is that it has a metal body, and weighs a ton if you needed to carry it around a lot like he did.   

Julia

Ali, how do you connect a usb dongle to a Note 10.1 please? 

Mines got wi-fi but no 3G as far as im aware, and it was only the more expensive models around the £500 mark that had the 3G ready installed, but apparantly non of those need a dongle to connect, its already built into the system, you just need a provider and a sim.

Julia

Thanks for that Ali, it will be useful to have backup to the wi-fi if we are away in the caravan to a fairly remote area.

Julia

Quote: Originally posted by Vectratot on 28/11/2012

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I also have the same adaptor as John_Young, cost about £2 from Ebay. Has USB port also card reader ports, just pop in my SD4 camera card in and quickly transfer pictures

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