{"id":11199,"date":"2016-06-10T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=11199"},"modified":"2016-06-16T05:35:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:35:42","slug":"2016-06-10-dell-windows-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=11199","title":{"rendered":"2016-06-10 Dell Windows Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ebay.com\/itm\/361528545849\">Dell tablet<\/a> with Win 8.1, etc.  It has a 10 inch screen, quad core atom CPU, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD, etc.  This is a refurbished one.\u00a0 I got the notice this morning that has been shipped.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I miss a lot on my Android phones is a real keyboard with control, function and other keys.\u00a0 But I really miss the apps (programs) that run only on Windows.\u00a0 Some specialized programs just haven&#8217;t been ported over to Android yet, and may never get ported.\u00a0 I would love to see them run on Linux, too.\u00a0 Thus, getting a Win tablet will let me have the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Will it hold up under personal use?  Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>Update Jun 14 &#8211; I received the tablet this afternoon.  I think the packaging weighed more than the tablet.  I tried pressing, then pressing and holding in the button labeled with the Windows pane, but it wouldn&#8217;t come alive.  I left it on the charger for a few hours to see if that will help.  It&#8217;s been a few hours, and the white LED next to the micro USB port has been lit all the time.  I tried again to power it up, but i got nothing, it&#8217;s dead, Jim.<\/p>\n<p>I looked online for an instruction manual or something that will tell me if I&#8217;m doing something wrong.  I found a lot of hits when I searched for Dell tablet won&#8217;t power up.  It seems that this is a rather common problem.  Since this is refurbished, I think I may have got a dud.  I may call the seller tomorrow and ask them to send a replacement and reimburse me for shipping costs.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted them and they sent a prepaid UPS label, so I&#8217;m sending it back.  But I asked for a refund, not a replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ordered a Dell tablet with Win 8.1, etc. It has a 10 inch screen, quad core atom CPU, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD, etc. This is a refurbished one.\u00a0 I got the notice this morning that has been shipped. One thing I miss a lot on my Android phones is a real<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=11199\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[207,208],"class_list":["post-11199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-dell","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11205,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions\/11205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}