Windows Tablet- Linux Lite on this??

[newtusmaximus]

There are also a load of refurbished android tablets available at keen prices. Possibly this might work.  But probably not a newbie friendly.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Fea...e-to-Linux

The goal is to use a perfectly good  bit of hardware to do every day low intensive tasks.  probably good enough for most purposes.

Afterthought
IMHO, again,  whether or not tablets are current is at the behest of the OS provider.  Perfectly good hardware becomes redundant/ possibly vulnerable because the OS moves on.
The vast majority of tablet users do  basic tasks with them, and the hardware specs are limited.  We now have a classic case where marketing is trying to shoehorn an OS that requires considerable hardware resources into machines that are not capable.  Resulting in consumer dissatisfaction and numerous returns to seller - hence the flood of refurbished tablets

Finding a way to free these up to use linux would be worthwhile.