Ahh the great tablet debate again.
Android vs IOS
I see there is little love of the IOS of apple. Not sure why, it works well. I have no special love of the Apple. My only reasons I love the products is because or repair-ability and reliability. I have an iPad I repaired which is 3 years old. It still works great. I would highly recommend one as a refurb from apple direct.
As for other brands.
Yes the Asus tablets are nice. Repairable, IMO not very reliable. I have seen ones just die. No reason what so ever, but they "BRICKED" for unknown reasons.
I have seen this commonly with the Asus & Acer brands mostly. Not knowing the whole story, other than, "My tablet just stopped working"
Samsung tablets. These are good tablets, repairable, reliable, not prone to "BRICKING" only down side, if the glass breaks, so does the touch capability as well. The higher end units have the SD card expansion, and I have seen USB adapters for the data port.
Look the whole thing boils down to this... You get what you pay for.
Just like our bikes. The intruder is a nice well built machine. We all know we can get a spring kit for possibly less money than Designer sells his, but will they last?
Do you buy the rear tire for $50 or $100 bucks? You know which one will perform better in the rain, or hot temps, or in general. Will the $50 tire work as well as the $100 tire? Maybe for a while, but it only lasted 8,000 miles, and the $100 tire lasted 14,000 miles.
So which was the better investment?
Pick up the $79.00 tablet. Does it feel cheaply made? Can you flex it? If you dropped it, do you think it would survive? What accessories are there for it?
If you google the name, what comes up?
Like I said, I have no special love of the Apple. Yes I own an iphone 5S and iPad2. However my PC is a Windows 8 customer built rig. Windows 8 only to force myself to know the OS. I actually hate Windows 8
The windows based tablets are Win8. They are pretty, fairly well built, and a muthafukka to repair. They really wind up being not cost effective to repair if they break.
Again its all relevant to how you treat things. If you are going to have a toddler using your tablet like a hammer, don't expect it to hold up to the abuse.