Blackberry Playbooks on super offer

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:17 pm

Heads up people, Currys are selling the Blackberry Playbooks off at an amazing £99 for the 64GB version

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/ ... 0-pdt.html

Dog Tyred · Post by **Dog Tyred** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:27 pm

Blimey that does sound like a bargain.

Are these any good and how do they get on working with Mac stuff? I have a Macbook Air for work (running Windows

) and a Mac computer at home.

How easy is to transfer music, films, word docs,etc, etc,

DT

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:39 pm

Dog Tyred wrote:Blimey that does sound like a bargain.

Are these any good and how do they get on working with Mac stuff? I have a Macbook Air for work (running Windows ) and a Mac computer at home.

How easy is to transfer music, films, word docs,etc, etc,

DT

Haven't a clue how well they interact with Macs, but I believe there's a program for Macs that works the same as the PC version.

Transferring music and films to them is a cinch as the will actually appear as a network share so on say my windows network I just find out what ip address the playbook is on and type \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx , where the xxx's are the octets of the ip address, into File explorer in Windows and the playbook share opens up on the PC there's a media folder and it's just a question of transferring stuff into there.

I got mine (I have two now) to use as a cheap device when on bike tours. It connects to wifi and Bluetooth for remotely accessing the web. I liked the interface so much it prompted my purchase of the BB10 device the Z10. Blackberry have promised that this year BB10 will be available FOC for the playbooks.

Dog Tyred · Post by **Dog Tyred** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:03 pm

Sorry but are you talking English ?

DT

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:14 pm

Dog Tyred wrote:Sorry but are you talking English ?

DT

spoken like a true Apple customer

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Wed May 22, 2013 3:51 am

DT, was thinking the same

mikek_7 · Post by **mikek_7** » Wed May 22, 2013 10:02 am

what are they like as an ebook reader?

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Wed May 22, 2013 10:48 am

fine, I have kindle sideloaded onto it and it works fine.

Primarily I bought it for email and web browsing while on bike tours

Twinspark · Post by **Twinspark** » Thu May 23, 2013 7:54 pm

All gone now.

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Thu May 23, 2013 7:57 pm

Twinspark wrote:All gone now.

didn't think they'd last long at that price