Tablet on $1300 budget - School, fun and general app use

[Azortharion]

Hey guys,

So drooling over the CES stuff, it got me thinking that I want a nice tablet for high school / college soon.

The budget is $1300, willing to spend a little more for the really good stuff though.

I don't mind big ones, though I'd prefer something below 18 inches.

It's primarily for schoolwork, but would prefer horsepower to play games, deliver nice video and so on.

Since it's a laptop-tablet thingy (or just a tablet with keyboard support), I'd prefer Windows 8 to run regular programs as such.

Thanks!

[Deleted]

check those Asus Transformers, they are one of the top notch tablets in the market.
Look for one with windows OS

[Deleted]

Im not trolling or anything but, from my exp tablet is usually the device on which you do the least work for school /job.

[gamer6321]

you should check out the razer edge pro its exactly in your budget and not only that it has insane horsepower

and like newersumm said i brought my tablet to school and i ended up not doing much work.
i bought a decent 13 inch laptop and i usually did all my schoolwork on that.

[inux94]

Stay away from the Edge Pro, Razer still has horrible quality assurance, I wouldn't touch anything new from Razer unless it got a bunch of good reviews and feedback

[Azortharion]

you should check out the razer edge pro its exactly in your budget and not only that it has insane horsepower

and like newersumm said i brought my tablet to school and i ended up not doing much work.
i bought a decent 13 inch laptop and i usually did all my schoolwork on that.

Wouldn't a combo device fix that then? Mobility is pretty important to me, but I can see your point in that you'll prolly end up doing more work on a laptop.

Guess I'll be going for a combo in that case, but as Inux94 said Razer is pretty merh with their quality assurance etc.

Do keep throwing em at me!

[Deleted]

I'd go for the ASUS Transformer Infinity TF700T.
Should easily fit your budget.
That, or the more pricier Nexus 10.

[inux94]

By the way, another one on ASUS.

[Azortharion]

I'd go for the ASUS Transformer Infinity TF700T.
Should easily fit your budget.
That, or the more pricier Nexus 10.

Just stumbled across it too, I just reckon that for a combi (if you get the keyboard which I intend to do), 10 inches is pretty small, and it seems in Denmark the TF700T does not have 3G at all.

[Deleted]

You got the surface tablets from microsoft. The Pro version might fit in that budget, which has a normal laptop i5 and normal windows 8

[reohh]

Microsoft Surface Pro. It is not released yet but they early preivews have been praising it. Its coming out in like 3 weeks

Do some reading on it. It looks amazing

[Azortharion]

Updated OP a little, will give the Surface a look'

EDIT: Surface Pro looks sexy, meets all requirements and more. Do still throw suggestions if you know of something better! Something bigger, perhaps? Would really like something 13 inches or more.

[inux94]

Just stumbled across it too, I just reckon that for a combi (if you get the keyboard which I intend to do), 10 inches is pretty small, and it seems in Denmark the TF700T does not have 3G at all.

It'll be updated at around ~Feb, just like how the Nexus 7 just got 3G in Denmark