I agree that as long as you can afford it, it's safer to choose reliable stuff that is a pleasure to use. That being said, just want to mention that I bought for my mom a Lenovo tablet about 8 years ago for about $100 and she still uses it to surf the net. She also uses an Acer tablet with a bigger screen, my dad bought it for about $160 nearly 10 years ago. If the goal is to read PDF files or so, well, I'm not sure that there are a lot of wrong choices.