The Nexus 7 really lives up to the hype - it's a very nice device for the money. It gets a lot of use as a video player - Netflix, Hulu Plus, Google Play TV (for Breaking Bad), and the Olympics (NBC Live Extra). It really is just a toy, though - I wouldn't even try to compose email on it. My feeling toward tablets in general have not changed: they are for consumption, not production. But for 200 bucks, it's a very nice way to consumer video.
The MK802, on the other hand, has been a bust. I chose it over the Raspberry Pi because the specs look better on paper, and the Pi was not in stock at the time. I was taking a risk by ordering something directly from China, but I figured it was worth a shot. It arrived earlier than expected, so the getting the device itself was pretty seamless.
Unfortunately the MK802 has been a big disappointment. When it does work, it's very easy to push it over its limits. When it overheats, it shuts itself down and/or freezes. The Android 4.0 OS is decent, but it feels more like 3.0. It struggled with playing Flash video (no surprise there). But I expected Google Play videos to work without taking the system down. Plus I could not successfully boot Linux from the Micro SD slot - part of the problem was HDMI not playing nice, but I suspect that there were other issues as well.
At the moment the MK802 is not in good shape... I did a factory reset hoping that performance would improve if I started from scratch. But now the device won't boot at all. I guess the next step is to do a hard reset and/or reflash the factory OS image. But at this point, I have lost interest in it - it's not worth the effort for such a mediocre experience anyway.
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