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Not medication, I have an unlicensed pharmacist for that.

Long story short, as I move into my new apartment I won't have the Internet or a computer, and I don't want either. Not yet. I do have an Xbox, however, and an external HDD which is too large for the Xbox to read. It needs to read a USB sticks of 32gb or less.

Is there a cheap tablet that can take 2 USB inputs and thus from the HDD to the USB. It'll be MS / FAT32. Is this what tablets CAN do?

I know nothing about tablets, but the smallest and cheapest would be ideal as I need it for nothing else.

Alternatives might be buying a second hand netbook but I want to avoid that if I can.

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Have I read that right? You want a tablet that can read your HDD that then connects to your Xbox so you can read off that?

Or just a tablet that you can share movies from your box?

Which Xbox btw?

I think the easiest and cheapest, is to borrow someone's laptop/computer copy your files across and reformat the HDD to FAT32 surely?

I guess the other option is an Android tablet,then use a OTG Cable Adapter like this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/OTG-Cable-Adapter-Mini-A-plug/dp/B000EORX7U), then using xbox glass to stream to the xbox or get a tablet with a Micro SD card?

Then you could just get a Nexus 7 or Hudl even I think!

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Have I read that right? You want a tablet that can read your HDD that then connects to your Xbox so you can read off that?

The Xbox 360 can only read USB drives up to 32 gb, and my xHDD is a couple of terabytes. Each is already in FAT32 ie a specific version of MS. So all I want to manage files between the xHDD and the USB. I'd prefer not to stream.

If a W8 tablet lets me manually manage files between an xHDD and a USB stick that's great but it would need either two USB ports or to correctly accept a USB hub.

As it is I think I might be better off with just a refurbished laptop for £100 or a lowest-end new laptop for £200.

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Have a look on ebuyer, you should be able to get an android tablet for about £70 that would do the job . You'll need an OTG lead and a USB hub for the additional port, but can confirm this is perfectly do-able, having done the same myself in the past - android will happily mount a FAT32 volume.

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can you not partition your big HDD into 3 or 4 drives, one of 1.6tb and 2 or 3 of 32gb? then you can have the best of both worlds without buying anything. thats if the box will read that?

Even if it worked I'd still need the ability to copy from the 1.6 tb storage area into the 32 gb play area.

Plus that would mean reformatting the HDD and putting the 2tb of files somewhere...

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Have a look on ebuyer, you should be able to get an android tablet for about £70 that would do the job . You'll need an OTG lead and a USB hub for the additional port, but can confirm this is perfectly do-able, having done the same myself in the past - android will happily mount a FAT32 volume.

This is what I'm talking about. You've told me an Android tablet can copy FAT32 files between USB drives and can take a hub. Thanks!

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I had high hopes of being able to input a response to the title of this thread, thinking it was going to be about 'naughty' items. I've gone up a cul de sac, as it's all about stuff I haven't got a clue on. Up until recently I didn't even know how to turn the television on.

Fear not - I am indeed sporting a fine road cone with the letter D written on it. Rather fetching in a certain light to this imbecilic mind.

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My missus bought a similar deal before and after a few weeks it wasn't even a decent ereader.

Specs looks good though.

yeah, I bought a cheapie before and it was crap, just about useless.

But as you say, the spec is good.

Compared to my old v1 Nexus, on this cheapie:-

- the processor is 30% faster

- it has a 2-direction camera (or two cameras)

- the camera is higher res

- video output.

On the downsides

- it has 1/2 the RAM (512Mb vs 1Gb)

- it has 1/4 of the storage (8GB vs 32GB)

- it has a lower screen res (1024x600 vs 800 x 1280)

- lesser graphics engine (VR SGX540@500MHZ vs ULP GeForce)

But for the mostly-low intensity things I'll use it for I don't think i'll find those much of an issue. For £35 it's got to be worth a look ... I'll let you know tomorrow when it arrives.

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I've got it, and it's nice enough. :)

(and a new nexus 7 too, so to give a benchmark I'll compare the cheapie against the nexus 7 [version 2]).

It looks and feels a little more cheaply made than the nexus, and it's a little more sluggish in response - but not annoyingly so.

The first set-up is more basic compared to the nexus - there's no set-up wizard (which the nexus has, which made it very very easy) - so i've had to create an account manually, and change the date format, time zone, etc (was setup for america), I'm hoping I might download a backup of the apps from my old nexus onto here, but I can't work out if I can do that.

Is there anything specific anyone would like me to try with it?

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Once you log into the tablet with your google account your complete app history from other devices in the google play store under 'your apps'

Quite useful if your kids ever have tablets as you just need to log in on theirs, install apps as you and then they can use paid for apps from another account.

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Once you log into the tablet with your google account your complete app history from other devices in the google play store under 'your apps'

Quite useful if your kids ever have tablets as you just need to log in on theirs, install apps as you and then they can use paid for apps from another account.

thanks ... but the first bit has got me stumped :lol:

How exactly do I "log into the tablet with your google account"?

I have the account set up in the accounts part of settings. It is the only account.

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