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with so many tablets on the market buying a new one can be a little daunting I'm Sharon Vaknin and we're here at Best Buy with tablet expert Eric Franklin to make this process a whole lot easier Eric what should we look for in a tablet well before you get even close to buying a tablet I say figure out what your needs are let's say you want to watch movies on the train while you commute to work then you're gonna want to tap it with a really nice screen and access to a lot of movies and TV shows kind of like this have you seen this movie before I have it check that out nice screen size for watching a movie and it's really light too this is the iPad air by the way so what if I want to get work done though if you want to get work done then you're definitely gonna want to tablet it with a nice comfortable keyboard and access to a you know a nice productivity suite like this so this one's a little heavier but yeah yeah that's pretty cool yeah that is cool so I'd say know your needs ok so once we know what our needs are what about budget how does that play into my purchase well budgets very important obviously I would say the thing that affects budget the most or affects price the most for tablets is storage space the more storage space you want to store those movies and TV shows the more you're gonna pay also I would say there are a lot of affordable tablets out there but they're not always the best quality so but thankfully Amazon and Google have found a way to release high quality tablets at really affordable prices well we talked about budget but does it really matter how much you spend is it really worth spending an extra 100 bucks on a tablet you know sometimes it is like there a lot of tablets that are under a hundred bucks and they look really appealing but you know you really get what you pay for when you go that low ok so stay away from those sub $100 tablets now before we go I know that some tablets have some extra tricks up their sleeves so tell me about those yeah a few of them do like the Samsung tablets have an IR sensor that you can use to use the tablet to control your entire entertainment center that's that kind of the biggest remote I've ever seen but still a neat trick definitely and then the Kindle Fire tablets if you're a parent you want to share your Kindle Fire with your kids they have this kids mode that allows you to decide what kind of access you're gonna have on the tablet so they don't use up your credit card and they don't access sites that you rather not have them access now that is a useful feature well thank you Eric and hopefully by now you have a better idea of what you need in order to buy your next tablet for cnet.com I'm Sharon Vaknin I'm Eric Franklin happy shopping