The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review
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The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review
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#2I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android.
Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
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#3I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android. Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
The Transformer series is usually good. Don't like the proprietary plug though. My 2012 model lasted well and I gave it to my mother as a gaming device that she is still using to this day. The Tegra 3 chip kinda sucked though.
There was no N10 successor because apparently it didn't sell well enough.
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#4If only it had 4-8GB RAM. I could actually see myself do stuff on it other than play games. It comes with a stylus and SD card slot! That's almost my whole checklist for a dream tablet:
1. stylus with good support
2. SD card slot
3. powerful hardware
4. lots of RAM
I can't understand why they put so little in.
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#5I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android. Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
Agreed. I would love a 15" tablet for watching movies in bed.
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#6I was waiting for over half a year for the next shield and am very disappointed it's a tablet. I liked the original shield because it allows to stream PC games throughout my house, so that I can play them on my couch or in bed. The other awesome thing is playing emulators on the go. With the tablet I can't do any of those properly, because the controller is not built in and I need to have a place to set up the tablet. So I can't play it on the train or anywhere in my house excepts my desk or my dining room table.
If you already have a tablet (or 2 in my case) and wanted this as a gaming device, then that's a bummer. It's too bad. Everything that targets hardcore gamers fails.
Re: The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review
#7I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android. Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
I have a 21 inch "tablet" hanging on my office wall, it's pretty useful as a dashboard and I can put it on a standing desk for typing up emails and watching videos, http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/aio-products/slate21-pro.html
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#8If only it had 4-8GB RAM. I could actually see myself do stuff on it other than play games. It comes with a stylus and SD card slot! That's almost my whole checklist for a dream tablet: 1. stylus with good support 2. SD card slot 3. powerful hardware 4. lots of RAM I can't understand why they put so little in.
They might have tested it and found that it just wasn't an advantage to having more RAM.
The RAM they have in there is pretty fast and the SSD to RAM might be fast enough and Android's RAM management good enough that more than 2GB just isn't necessary (but I haven't seen those tests, just guessing).
There could also be a battery life reason.
It looks like the test/dev/beta version of the Shield did have 4GB of RAM, so I'm guessing there was a decent reason they reduced it.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/04/23/nvidia-shield-2-gets-be...
Re: The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review
#9I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android. Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
I have a 21 inch "tablet" hanging on my office wall, it's pretty useful as a dashboard and I can put it on a standing desk for typing up emails and watching videos, http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/aio-products/slate21-pro.html
would be nice if it wasn't power cord bound.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a 21 inch "tablet" hanging on my office wall, it's pretty useful as a dashboard and I can put it on a standing desk for typing up emails and watching videos, http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/aio-products/slate21-pro.html
would be nice if it wasn't power cord bound.
Not really, it's heavy, like ~14 pounds.
It's definitely useful though, a good niche product between desktop computer and tablet.