Thread: Good Scouting Tablets That Run Tableau
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Unread 28-05-2015, 14:49
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Re: Good Scouting Tablets That Run Tableau
In 2014 Robotarians bought 3 Nexus 7" tablets. We have 1 left. One got dropped and the other just stopped charging properly.

In 2015 we bought 5 Amazon Kindle 6" tablets. We waited until they were on sale (about once a month or so) and got them for $85 a piece. They are a little cheaper because they have app adds on the lock screen (didn't bother us). They are pretty rugged and other than being small (we adjusted our interface and all was right with the world). Their current commercial says it is twice as durable as an ipad and I believe it.

Do not go with a "generic" tablet. We ordered 6 from black friday at Walmart. They were RCA. We figured that they'd be low end (THey were $60 a piece) but they are RCA so should be ok. They were unusable. Constantly rebooting and just plain unresponsive. The screens could only be read at certain very odd angles.

Tableau AFAIK is a Windows program that you use to analyze the data you get from your tablets. I don't think it runs on tablets.