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I just realised that thanks to a Buffista I have an extra router at home--a Netgear Nighthawk. Way overpowered for the application, but what a lifesaver!
I'll either use it here and give them my Linksys E3200, or just take it there. Not decided yet...level of effort must be examined...
The Nighthawk is a great router.
I was going to say if you go into Best Buy the routers and modems aren't in computers any more (at least they shouldn't be) they will be in the "connections" deparment (mobile phones, tablets, security cameras, wi fi connected light switches, light bulbs, and the like). The idea is that the internet and espeically wireless internet is so centralized they put it in kind of one area.
Ok, this is near my "Oh hell, take a chance" price.
OTOH? a month to ship from China.
Of course, it pings my, "if it sounds too good to be true" meter.
It might simply be REALLY slow. Which is nto necessarily a big deal if you plan to load it up once with music or movies, but can cause problems if you like taking pictures onto it or something.
Went down to the local Amazon display case (i.e. Best Buy). Tested out whether any computing options work better with my eyes than the setup I have currently. To my surprise, 30 inch monitors do nothing for me. Some tablets work. To my greater suprise, the Galaxy Tab 44 9 inch worked better for me than the iPad. Best Buy did not have a tab S in stock. so I'll have to see if office Max or something has one I can try. But while the S is supposed to have a better screen, I don't think even Sony would claim it matches the ipad 2 air in specs. But what works for your eyes eorks for your eyes. So I'm going to look at an S, just in case whatever screen improvement Sony made with the S is actually worse rather than better for me. I admit I'd rather have the greater speed and memory of the S if the screen works for me, but you know seeing the screen is my key demand right now, so if the 4 is better I'll go for it. At least buying a 4 will be cheaper than an S if that is the way it turns out. Seems odd that a 4 works better than an ipad, but eyes are weird things ....
The Tab is a Samsung device, unless a lot has change since I last went looking. Both mine are.
Yeah, it is samsug. shit I said Spny didnt Il At any rate went back looked at the same size S. Yup the 4 works better for me that the S in spite of the much higher S pixel count. So I guess I can just repeat eyes are weird.
The Tab S has the AMOLED Display and one of the features of that is individual pixel control. So when the black parts of the screen have the pixels turned off instead of dimmed. And also it has somehting like richer color. It's the same display that's on the Galaxy S5 and the Note 4 phone. But the ipad Air 2 has an anti glare screen the Samsung tablets don't. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they started adding those in.
We just got in the new 27" iMac with 5K Retina display and it's very very pretty. Someone claimed they couldn't see the difference but I think it's the default Yosemite wallpaper, once we put on different pictures you could really see it.
I have one of the 5K Retina iMacs and the display is amazing. It makes the 27" QHD resolution monitor next to it look so grainy, and that's just crazy.
I know - the tab 4 does not come close to what the S has - not in display, not in most other factors. But something in how my eyes don't work right make text on the S look fuzzier to me. The particular flaws in the 4 work well with my eyes. I don't understand it, but I was in Best Buy comparing the two side by side. I do not pretend to understand it.