8 inch Windows tablet for Logos, anyone?
An 8 inch Windows tablet? We thought they were all extinct! Well, not quite. Raytrek, a Japanese company, has the Raytrektab RT08WT. It is only sold in Japan, as far as I know, but I bought one through a reputable seller on eBay. Some of you won't be interested in this, but others will, so here goes.
This is an 8 inch tablet that runs Windows 10 Pro. It has 8 GB of RAM, 128 GB of internal storage (eMMC, not SSD), and an Intel Celeron N4000 CPU. It has a microSD card slot. It comes with a Wacom stylus hat does not need batteries. The stylus feels light, like a Bic pen, but it draws and writes well. It also serves as a decent mouse alternative.
Its eMMC and CPU are faster than the ones some of you may remember on tablets like the Dell Venue 8 Pro and the Asus VivoTab Note 8. With this and the 8 GB of RAM, Logos' performance is better than on those other 8 inch tablets, but not as good as the Surface Go 2, since the Go has SSD, not eMMC.
I've only had my Raytrektab a couple of days, but battery life looks to be in the 4-5 hour range. That could improve a bit once updates and installations are done.
The display is 1280 x 800 dpi, adequate but not as good as some tablets from Apple or Samsung.
Cost? You can get it from Japanese websites for about $250 US, but you may have to deal with shipping and customs fees. I paid $350 on eBay for a new one, and had to pay neither shipping nor customs fees.
If you like the idea of portability and don't need top performance, this tablet could work for you.
One challenge is that all the documentation is only in Japanese, and Windows 10 is in Japanese. With Google Translate and a smartphone camera, you can fond your way around and change the language to English (or whatever language you want).
I can tell you more if you're interested. Let me know.