Winbook tablet as MAME or visual pinball machine?

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JDFan:

--- Quote from: pbj on January 05, 2015, 03:35:10 pm ---Ebay deal doesn't include the Office key. That dude is buying them and selling the keys separately. Which is fine by me but just FYI.

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LOL was just editing my post to mention that !! - Figure the 365 sub key works to extend a current subscription so almost makes the tablet free if you use office 365. (since MS wants $69.95 for a single user 1 year subscription )

Generic Eric:
It can't be worse than the COBY tablet the furniture store gave us. Lemme know how MAME and minecraft run on this if anyone gets one.

yotsuya:
I want a tablet to keep all my arcade manuals, schematics, and plans on. I was thinking a cheap ass eBay deal, but this might be a decent pickup. You buying it, James?

Vigo:
Buy it. I did. I got a coupon in the mail for $30 for that exact winbook last week. No idea why. Never even heard of Micro Center before that coupon showed up in the mail. Sent the wife over to micro center to pick it up. We both were very skeptical since we already have a couple nasty cheap tablets. We were gonna give it to the toddler for watching movies in the car, and cash in on the 1 year subscription to office365.

Absolute rock solid purchase. What surprised me was the quality of the screen. Actually good resolution and no viewing angle problems. Actually on par with my iPad2 in screen quality. Speed seem fine, but didn't do any benchmarking. touch controls are very receptive. Had to buy a micro HDMI cable, but tried it on the TV, and although the available resolutions were limited, it looked fine. USB keyboard and mouse were no problem. Didn't test bluetooth yet. Not much hard drive, but with a microSD slot, who cares. The big Achilles heel of the tablet is the piss poor battery life. Played about 2 hours of the tiny death star app, and the battery died.

I spent a whole 5 minutes so far trying mame. For some reason, the self extracting 7z file erred out when opening it and I just gave up. I'll try again by extracting on my PC and popping it in via usb drive. I can try mame on it later, but I feel pretty good it would make an awesome tablet for project machines.

ark_ader:
It is hard to get the winbook as there are no stores nearby that sell them. My HP Stream (still plugging) doesn't have HDMI out but you can see the screen enough to create a icade clone and put some controls on it. The HP Stream 7 is going for $79 and that includes office which makes the tablet worth about $19. The sound on the Stream is poor, but the display is nice and bright and like the winbook, you can put x86 apps on it.

I haven't tried visual pinball yet but it is on my list. ;D

The winbook is the better buy though with 2gb of memory and the HDMI.

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