Same story, different approach
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AprilT
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Well, I'm happy to say, as of last week, I got my old pc back up and working once I received the replacement monitor and correct part to connect it, but, I'm still using my tablet when I want to be mobile. My tablet till then and now works fine, but, I'd never consider it as a full replacement for my pc, I do like the mobility of it as I use it when I am in the bedroom or when I move to the sofa, so it still gets plenty of usage, just not as much as before I got my what I thought was a gonner pc back up and working. Truly amazed my pc is working, but, if it goes on the blitz again, I will be looking into the chromebox or another desktop, but, I will always keep a tablet on hand.
I only paid $60 for my tablet, I don't care about the camera which is a good thing as it's worthless for good picture taking, but, over all my connection to net is pretty good, it will drop sometimes when first signing on, ill have to turn off and back on again, but, that's more of an issue with my area, get problems like that with the roku now and again and other gadgets. It's been and still is a learning curve, I've been able to get all my pictures uploaded via cloud, can be annoying at times, but, I'm learning and finding it not to be so bad, just not completely ready to give up certain conveniences of my regular pc the chromebox might be as far as I'll venture away while still keeping a tablet in my arsenal.
I only paid $60 for my tablet, I don't care about the camera which is a good thing as it's worthless for good picture taking, but, over all my connection to net is pretty good, it will drop sometimes when first signing on, ill have to turn off and back on again, but, that's more of an issue with my area, get problems like that with the roku now and again and other gadgets. It's been and still is a learning curve, I've been able to get all my pictures uploaded via cloud, can be annoying at times, but, I'm learning and finding it not to be so bad, just not completely ready to give up certain conveniences of my regular pc the chromebox might be as far as I'll venture away while still keeping a tablet in my arsenal.
Son_of_Perdition
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I did discover a real need for the tablet. It was raining, my 6 YO great-grandson is hooked on Netflix. I've never set up different profiles until yesterday. I created one for grandchildren. Sit him in a chair, earphones on, stylus in hand and tablet on his lap. I logged him into Netflix, handed it to him and for 2 hours he watched children's programming without loading my profile up with animated choices. He could watch a few minutes of each and move on. My laptop being a Linux OS can't connect to Netflix unless I go through 'Wine' and the quality is horrible. He was also able to watch YouTube videos about making Playdoh characters at his leisure. Saved my sanity and helped with conversation. He now wants me to get 'Minecraft' loaded, it may be worth the $6.99, I held him at bay with tales about fixed income living.
There's even an app to use your tablet as a ROKU remote, in case of mis-placing it or messing with your G-grand-kid's mind.
There's even an app to use your tablet as a ROKU remote, in case of mis-placing it or messing with your G-grand-kid's mind.
Well, I'm happy to say, as of last week, I got my old pc back up and working once I received the replacement monitor and correct part to connect it, but, I'm still using my tablet when I want to be mobile. My tablet till then and now works fine, but, I'd never consider it as a full replacement for my pc, I do like the mobility of it as I use it when I am in the bedroom or when I move to the sofa, so it still gets plenty of usage, just not as much as before I got my what I thought was a gonner pc back up and working. Truly amazed my pc is working, but, if it goes on the blitz again, I will be looking into the chromebox or another desktop, but, I will always keep a tablet on hand.
I only paid $60 for my tablet, I don't care about the camera which is a good thing as it's worthless for good picture taking, but, over all my connection to net is pretty good, it will drop sometimes when first signing on, ill have to turn off and back on again, but, that's more of an issue with my area, get problems like that with the roku now and again and other gadgets. It's been and still is a learning curve, I've been able to get all my pictures uploaded via cloud, can be annoying at times, but, I'm learning and finding it not to be so bad, just not completely ready to give up certain conveniences of my regular pc the chromebox might be as far as I'll venture away while still keeping a tablet in my arsenal.
April did you know that there are two channels that you can load on your PC and Roku so that you can view any and all of your pictures on Roku ??
Whatever you load on your PC or Tablet can be viewed/loaded on DropBox.com or Real player cloud they will automatically go to Roku...
AprilT
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- A galaxy far far away
Yes! But, I really don't want to look at myself that much, I only upload most pics to share with others, occasionally. I get enough time looking at myself in the mirror. LOL! j/k I do have pictures of old camping trips and other great scenery of areas I've visited and lovely local haunts and such. I might look into pulling up some of them on the roku, it'll will give me something to use the thing for since it's been collecting dust for the past six or so months. Thanks for the suggestion, I knew I could load them to roku, but, I hadn't given much thought about actually doing it. It might be fun to revisit those pics on a bigger screen.
Well the cheap tablet has issues...Touch screen has stopped working!! Can power on but thats it!!
I will have to do some research and see if I can get it working...I guess you get what you pay for...Lesson learned...
