I also wanted it to cost a lot less, because spending a few hundred dollars on a tablet these days feels extravagant. I no longer had to buy the smallest model, since I wasn’t living out of a backpack anymore. When it finally came time to buy another, both the tablet market and my needs had changed. Seven years, to be exact, since I’d walked out of a Best Buy in Vancouver, Washington with a new Google Nexus 7 tucked under my arm. It’d been a long time since I last bought a tablet.