Electronic and Home Appliances Thread

[SKC]

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[SKC]

Guys, My dad's 7 yr old HP laptop cranked off yesterday. Sent it to out trusty electronics repair person. He checked and informed the Motherboard is beyond saving and no need to spend anything on this old laptop now.
It was one of the poorly manufactured Laptop which was priced cheap at the time and we bought it for my father's business work - generating and printing bills, sending quotations and some documentation work.

It came with 6th gen i3 with only 4GB ram. It started showing its age withing 3 year of purchase and I upgraded it 2 years back with 8GB more ram and a entry level SSD. It extended its age by 3 more year but finally it died.

Now I want to buy a new platform: Either a Tablet (iPad preferable) or another laptop (chromebook or windows laptop).

Please suggest options from both. What would be cheapest later generation iPad (without the ugly touch sensor in front and huge bezels) in India?? and Comparable Chromebook or Laptop?​

 

[VictorDelta4]

Guys, My dad's 7 yr old HP laptop cranked off yesterday. Sent it to out trusty electronics repair person. He checked and informed the Motherboard is beyond saving and no need to spend anything on this old laptop now.
It was one of the poorly manufactured Laptop which was priced cheap at the time and we bought it for my father's business work - generating and printing bills, sending quotations and some documentation work.

It came with 6th gen i3 with only 4GB ram. It started showing its age withing 3 year of purchase and I upgraded it 2 years back with 8GB more ram and a entry level SSD. It extended its age by 3 more year but finally it died.

Now I want to buy a new platform: Either a Tablet (iPad preferable) or another laptop (chromebook or windows laptop).

Please suggest options from both. What would be cheapest later generation iPad (without the ugly touch sensor in front and huge bezels) in India?? and Comparable Chromebook or Laptop?​

For basic work like printing bills and sending quotations etc, I would suggest going with Lenovo Ideapad 3/IdeaPas Slim 3i. Does the job and is not costly. 13th Gen I3/I5/I7

 

[SKC]

For basic work like printing bills and sending quotations etc, I would suggest going with Lenovo Ideapad 3/IdeaPas Slim 3i. Does the job and is not costly. 13 Gen I3/I5/I7

Thanks!

Please share some Tablet options too. It seems Dad has never been fan of Laptops and always find them bulky. He is from generation who loved physical registers/books and would have love to continue everything manual if I had not put my foot and moved everything online.

Tablet would keep him more interested in keeping things off manual registers.​

 

[Nutcracker]

Thanks!

Please share some Tablet options too. It seems Dad has never been fan of Laptops and always find them bulky. He is from generation who loved physical registers/books and would have love to continue everything manual if I had not put my foot and moved everything online.

Tablet would keep him more interested in keeping things off manual registers.​

Buying a 1.5kg i3-12gen laptop will be best. from 12 gen itself Intel started giving bigLittle clusters for good battery.

Otherwise even with light weight tablets you will need thick back cover/keyboard cover making the weight 1kg.

 

[VictorDelta4]

Thanks!

Please share some Tablet options too. It seems Dad has never been fan of Laptops and always find them bulky. He is from generation who loved physical registers/books and would have love to continue everything manual if I had not put my foot and moved everything online.

Tablet would keep him more interested in keeping things off manual registers.​

I use a used Surface GO 2 for my everyday carry. It works fine. You could also look for options like Lenovo ideapad Duet 3.
You could also look at Samsung Galaxy A series and S9FE tablets.
Make sure you check for peripheral connectivity in all of them for ease of connecting or sharing etc.

 

[SKC]

Looks like family is suddenly leaning towards iPad! Like they are excited to have a tablet and that too iPad.

We have never ever used tablet of any kind or OS. Currently the 10th Gen iPad 64GB is available from 27K-30K. 256GB is above 40K.​

 

[VictorDelta4]

Looks like family is suddenly leaning towards iPad! Like they are excited to have a tablet and that too iPad.

We have never ever used tablet of any kind or OS. Currently the 10th Gen iPad 64GB is available from 27K-30K. 256GB is above 40K.​

Sounds good. will need a few days to get used to it but smooth sailing after that.

 

[SKC]

Posted on multiple old Forums related to electronics where I have been part of in past.

Man! it's painful to see the demise of Digit forum. It was once among the most visited forum in India and now it gets barely 1% of original traffic.

 

[VictorDelta4]

Posted on multiple old Forums related to electronics where I have been part of in past.

Man! it's painful to see the demise of Digit forum. It was once among the most visited forum in India and now it gets barely 1% of original traffic.

Ah man Digit. Good old forums/ magazines as well as complimentary CDs of softwares etc.

 

[SKC]

Ah man Digit. Good old forums/ magazines as well as complimentary CDs of softwares etc.​

I loved the Digit magazines, used to read every new edition from School library. Salute to our school for having subscription for Digit till I passed out.
The CDs with latest softwares and demos of latest games. We would many times sneak out with the CD and run the demos in our home PC.​

 

[VictorDelta4]

I loved the Digit magazines, used to read every new edition from School library. Salute to our school for having subscription for Digit till I passed out.
The CDs with latest softwares and demos of latest games. We would many times sneak out with the CD and run the demos in our home PC.​

Yup those were the formative years that got me interested in tech. Loved using those free softwares and games!