Quick background .... I am 60 ... I don't like listening to the radio much. My wife is disabled (paralyzed from from the shoulders down as the result of a diving accident when she was 12). I work out of the house so I can care for her and earn a living. I am building a large new workshop 50 ft from the house (4500 sq ft large with 16 ft walls ... doing all the work myself). I love YouTube. I watch "how to" ,history, ... a bit of everything.
I was given an old cracked smart phone about two years ago (iphone). I downloaded the youtube app ... fed it into an old karaoke machine (still had dual tape decks in it, got it free) and I had all the entertainment I wanted.
Then the phone died.
I had an old laptop I was given ... till had XP on it ... dead battery ... that would have been fine but when I tried to put it on the internet, browsers would not work ... got opera to work finally and it was soooooo slow it would not play YouTube videos!
OK ... new phones are not cheap ... If I am going to pay $100 or more for one then I thought why not a cheap tablet.
WOW ... did I go down a rabbit hole! What processor ... memory ... version of Android, .....
Read review after review ...watched video after video ... I could not believe how many would fail even at a simple thing like watching YouTube ... heck, I am not gaming or doing 3D graphics.
This is the one I "thought" I was going to get: Margch 10" tablet at Amazon
At $135, not bad it if it works for a few years.
Then I got an e-mail saying not to get a tablet ... get a Chromebook.
I thought it was a specific unit till I started researching and found saying Chromebook is like saying laptop or tablet.
Again down the rabbit hole!
I watched ... I read .... processors ... video ...... memory .... will it play YouTube .....
And then price .... just under $200 to ????????
So I am lost again!
I just want a something simple that will stream YouTube and do a few simple apps (I was given a "wildlife camera" that uses an app ... I have a car ODB reader that uses an app ... just simple things like that.
Probably the most I will do is cast some of these things onto TV when I get the workshop done (I am old enough ten years ago before I moved, I had an old workshop and played DVD's all the time in the background).
I did find this unit ... no memory slot (hmmm) ... older 2020 (that worries me as I started reading about AUE) ... $230 Lenovo Duet on Amazon
Can anyone please straighten me out or give me some direction.
I was hoping to stay in the $100 - $200 range ... but can go a bit higher if I need to.
I live in rural VT (OK, all VT is rural, the largest city in the state is 42,000) ... I can't just run to a store and look at one. I can't find any "experts" in my area.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated !!!!!!!!
Mike
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I was given an old cracked smart phone about two years ago (iphone). I downloaded the youtube app ... fed it into an old karaoke machine (still had dual tape decks in it, got it free) and I had all the entertainment I wanted.
Then the phone died.
I had an old laptop I was given ... till had XP on it ... dead battery ... that would have been fine but when I tried to put it on the internet, browsers would not work ... got opera to work finally and it was soooooo slow it would not play YouTube videos!
OK ... new phones are not cheap ... If I am going to pay $100 or more for one then I thought why not a cheap tablet.
WOW ... did I go down a rabbit hole! What processor ... memory ... version of Android, .....
Read review after review ...watched video after video ... I could not believe how many would fail even at a simple thing like watching YouTube ... heck, I am not gaming or doing 3D graphics.
This is the one I "thought" I was going to get: Margch 10" tablet at Amazon
At $135, not bad it if it works for a few years.
Then I got an e-mail saying not to get a tablet ... get a Chromebook.
I thought it was a specific unit till I started researching and found saying Chromebook is like saying laptop or tablet.
Again down the rabbit hole!
I watched ... I read .... processors ... video ...... memory .... will it play YouTube .....
And then price .... just under $200 to ????????
So I am lost again!
I just want a something simple that will stream YouTube and do a few simple apps (I was given a "wildlife camera" that uses an app ... I have a car ODB reader that uses an app ... just simple things like that.
Probably the most I will do is cast some of these things onto TV when I get the workshop done (I am old enough ten years ago before I moved, I had an old workshop and played DVD's all the time in the background).
I did find this unit ... no memory slot (hmmm) ... older 2020 (that worries me as I started reading about AUE) ... $230 Lenovo Duet on Amazon
Can anyone please straighten me out or give me some direction.
I was hoping to stay in the $100 - $200 range ... but can go a bit higher if I need to.
I live in rural VT (OK, all VT is rural, the largest city in the state is 42,000) ... I can't just run to a store and look at one. I can't find any "experts" in my area.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated !!!!!!!!
Mike
Mod edit: Personal info removed
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