After the appearance of inexpensive "tablets" on sale, many personal PC users dreaming of purchasing a popular mobile gadget faced a difficult dilemma. It is rather difficult to decide which is better: to collect enough funds to buy a device from one of the well-known manufacturers, or to save money and buy a product made in China at a reasonable price? On the one hand, cheap tablets cause concern, but on the other hand, you don’t want to overpay for a brand. Let's try to figure out this difficult task together.
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 for purchase to a sworn enemy. Sometimes the number of oddities and flaws that some seven-inch monsters demonstrate simply amazes even the most experienced user. One would like to ask some manufacturers: "Whyrelease such rubbish?" After all, many people who are so interested in cheap tablets that they decide to buy them, after inevitable disappointment, will definitely complain to their friends, and they will share information with their acquaintances, as a result, the image of the manufacturer will fall below the baseboard. I don’t know, as 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:
- No Wi-Fi module, although the price tag says otherwise.
- Low battery capacity.
- Insufficient RAM capacity.
All this nullifies the gain in price, because it is almost impossible to use such "freaks" normally. For those who are interested in how much a tablet costs cheaply, we note that the border between overly budget and rather tolerable models is at around $100.
Pros
In the first half of September 2013, Brian Krzhanych, CEO 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 still drops below the $100 mark. It is not yet known which operating system they will run on - Android or Windows - after all, Atom crystals can support the platform of both Google and Microsoft. It is unlikely that such a well-known company will treat quality with disdain, because the loss of image for today's leaders, inunlike Chinese little-known firms, in the face of fierce competition is simply unacceptable. Among the popular brands, Google's Nexus 7 8MB, starting at $170, is currently the leader in terms of price, but will it be able to maintain its position until the end of the year? After all, recently he had a worthy opponent from HP - a seven-inch Slate 7 tablet, the price of which is approximately at the same level. Time will tell.
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From all of the above, the following conclusion suggests itself: if the highest priority in buying a tablet is price, then it is best to focus on well-known and well-established seven-inch models of well-known market leaders. Well, if you are still interested in gadgets with a large screen, then 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 miser pays twice is justified.
