Can't remember the specs but typing this in a hotel room in ny 12000 miles from home on a pro ver ....no issues with it. Big enough to actually do something with. 

As long as I can ip ban nutters from it.....alls goood....

I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition and I love it.

Display10.1” 2560x1600(WQXGA) TFT

ChipsetWiFi/3G : 1.9GHz Quad + 1.3GHz Quad
LTE : 2.3GHz Quad

Camera/Flash8M w/ LED Flash + 2M Full HD

32 GB + 32 GB SD.

3 GB ram.

S Pen rocks!

For me that's not a pro.  I don't like Android [or even IOS, for that matter] as it feels more like an apps manager than an OS.  I prefer something with a FULL OS, hence the HP 2-in-1 with Win 8.1.... on which I can install full programs, not just apps from the store.

Other than that, the Samsung tablets are okay and a cut above many competitors offerings, but without a full OS they're not for me.  My next tablet will be the Surface Pro 4... though I'm not so keen on Windows 10.  However, for a light and portable machine that can go with me anywhere, I guess I can suffer its fugly UI and icons until Stardock updates the programs to resolve that issue.

starkers, in my opinion window HEX is an appropriate name for THAT version, as it makes desire to use along with everything else disappear, and as far as the 'phones for idiots' and the 'bigger phones for bigger idiots', I attack problems on them, BUT often hit granite mountains in my attempts to get things done with them, and while I can eventually bash my way through the granite mountain it is usually quicker and eaasier to stop and re-think the entire exercise and go around the mountain by other methods

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Starkers,  weren't you singing the iPad's praises just a few months ago?   

In any case as stated in the op the 3 reasons I bought this tab for weren't about replacing my desktop or even a good notebook and were certainly strengthened by the discounts offered at retail currently.

Nope!  That would just never happen... not in a million years.  What I have [and like using] is an Apple MacMini with OS-X Yosemite... a full OS and not a pretend one that manages apps and not a lot more.

I have a 10 inch Toshiba Windows Tablet as well. But that's too small for Windows, IMHO. YMMV. If I had it to do over, I wouldn't have bought it.

Yeah, I looked at some 10 inch tablets and felt they were all undersized.  What I have now is 13.5", which is just a tad smaller than a lot of laptops and just right as a stand-alone tablet or as a notebook.  I could have gone for the model above at 15.5", but I felt it was a little cumbersome to hold [in one hand] as a tablet.  Besides, it wouldn't have fit in my carry case along with my other accessories, whereas the 13.5" version is a perfect fit.

I do have an Android tablet to fall back on as a spare, but it rarely ever gets used and mostly collects dust these days... apart from when Shaunna uses it for checking emails, etc, while away.  For mine, Android is very limited and restricts use to 'apps' [most of which I'd never use] that are just diluted versions of full programs which can do so much more. 

Sure, some apps can be useful, and Android is okay for content viewing and checking emails, etc, but I want/need more than that... such as full programs with a full range of feature and options.  Being watered down versions and therefore much smaller, 'apps' have the most basic functions and that's it.  If I want to resize a photo or convert music or videos, I want to have all the options available and not end up having to redo it later [for best results] with a full-featured program on a more capable machine.