![]() This is a full-fledged Windows 10 tablet with an Intel Atom quad-core chip, which means it’s (theoretically) compatible with nearly any Windows application you can run on your desktop or laptop-it doesn’t have the incompatibility issues you would find with Windows tablets running on ARM like some of the original Surfaces. One of the best things is, of course, the price. There are some pretty good things about it, and some similarly pretty annoying things. I’ve since played around with the tablet for a couple of days, experimenting with it. Perhaps I did something involving them when I briefly had the HP Stream 7 that didn’t work properly with WiFi? You Get What You Pay For I suppose it’ll just remain one of those curious unsolved mysteries. And then I didn’t see them on the tablet, either. It turned out I was-but when I checked it on my desktop Windows 10 installation, I didn’t see any of those pictures on the Synced Theme there. ![]() Someone else suggested I check and see if I was set to a “Synced Theme” in the Themes control panel. Not terribly helpful, given that I already knew I hadn’t been hacked since the photos were familiar. When I asked about it on Microsoft’s support forum, I got a boilerplate response from an MS rep suggesting I run a virus scan and change my Microsoft account password. I’m not sure exactly where any of them came from, because they weren’t in any of my OneDrive folders. Apart from Ted, there was also the photo from this TeleRead story about SeeBook, a photo of my brother’s messy basement, and a painting of medieval knights that may also have been in a TeleRead story somewhere I suppose. I have to say, it’s a bit unsettling to turn on your new tablet and come face-to-face with the most infamous luddite of our age.Īs for why it was there, it seemed that a number of photos had somehow come with my account login to my desktop theme. Or, more precisely, it was the photo of him I used in the TeleRead story I wrote about him and Scientology last year. The first face that greeted me on the tablet was-I’m not kidding here-the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Once I got it home, I let it charge, booted it up, and signed in with my Microsoft account. (A nice touch, I thought.) Apart from the peel-off fake screen, the tablet actually had a screen protector already included with it, even if it did have a couple of bubbles under it. Apart from the Vulcan Journey tablet itself, the box held a couple of user manuals, a wall-wart, a USB cable, and a USB-OTG adapter for hooking full-sized USB plugs into the tablet’s micro-USB port. $49 for a Windows 10 tablet? Could this be a serious competitor to Amazon’s Fire? I decided to find out. (It’s also available on Amazon for $48.49.) ![]() Curious, I browsed down the rows, until my eyes fell on this: a $49 Windows 10 tablet made by a company called Vulcan, called the Journey. The other day, I was up at my local Fry’s Electronics to get a couple of needful things and I happened by the tablet section.
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