help with tablets.ipad things/i have no idea.

hello! i'm starting drama school soon and on my required equipment list they've suggested that rather than using a bulky laptop (which obviously could get in the way of movement in physical assessments and can take a while to log on etc) that students could look into getting a handheld device and then in brackets it says e.g: ipad.

well, as much as i would love an ipad i am very poor so i'm looking at kind of cheap alternatives. it'll be mainly used for note-taking quickly and maybe creating mindmaps/planning performance and if there was a camera or something that could record video too that'd be great.

i dunno if i'm describing a product that isn't available but does anyone have any ideas? price is key here, i'm not really bothered about memory/os/whatever just as long as it's pretty cheap and i can at least do the first two things i mentioned.

+rep thanks xxxx

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Generally the cheap ones are horrible Chinese rubbish. The only decent tablet for your budget is this, which is stupidly good for the price.

http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/#/7

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Originally Posted by Recursion

Generally the cheap ones are horrible Chinese rubbish. The only decent tablet for your budget is this, which is stupidly good for the price.

http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/#/7

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ooooh that actually looks really nice. this is also gonna sound technically ******ed but can i get like a mini microsoft word for it? haha

(p.s: you'll be pleased to know i worked out how to get windows vista off my laptop and i'm now running 7 ;))

you can use google docs offline and get a keyboard dock for it.

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Originally Posted by mrwoooooooo

you can use google docs offline and get a keyboard dock for it.

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oh sweet. definitely looking into buying this now, what would i need to be searching to find one of these keyboard docks?

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Originally Posted by bethany

oh sweet. definitely looking into buying this now, what would i need to be searching to find one of these keyboard docks?

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Just google Nexus 7 Keyboard dock, I'm sure there are thousands out there by now.

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oh sweet. definitely looking into buying this now, what would i need to be searching to find one of these keyboard docks?

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Turns out there aren't any out for it yet ;D my bad

but youd need one if you want to take notes, impossible to do it fast on a tablet screen

If you only want it for taking notes and drawing stuff why not get a pad of paper lol

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If you only want it for taking notes and drawing stuff why not get a pad of paper lol

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Indeed :P Nothing is more annoying in a quiet environment than someone bashing on their keyboard making scratchy tapping noises when taking notes. Pen and paper beats tablets/laptop any day.

And the Nexus 7 is amazing, just got one of them. £199 for that is a huge bargain.