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["Mitchell Reese" <mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 8 & 16gb versions of the archos gen9 all seem to have 512 mb of ram. Apparently the 'turbo' incarnations of these tablets coming out this year are clocked at 1.5ghz (dual core), and are said to have 1gb ram and 250 gb hard drive. These specs are all still to be confirmed, however I found a link earlier that seemed to point to some of these having been shipped already. Take this as a strong rumour though, as I haven't found the link again.

Any ideas if the omap4 chipset is armel or armhf?

Mitchell

Chris Billington <billington.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Agreed, avoid Nvidia Tegra. Based on my experience with the Toshiba AC100
>'Tegra2 Netbook', where a buggy alpha graphics driver was followed six
>months later by a buggy beta, NVidia (worldwide sales $billions) could not
>give a hoot about Linux support. Allegedly it's due to 'resource issues'-
>all they care about is Android. Their history of keeping drivers
>proprietary is well known.
>
>Note that there are two Arm build architectures, armel and armhf (which
>supports the on chip FPU). Ubuntu and other Debian distributions are moving
>to armhf. Nvidia have not publicly released any Linux graphics drivers for
>armhf, and may not even do so. Same situation for Flash and Skype, neither
>is ever likely to arrive. Gnash plugin works on some sites, though in the
>end I removed it as being too memory-hungry. Note that while a full Ubuntu
>distribution (Unity 2D, etc) will run in 512MB RAM, it's often
>memory-constrained. Better to choose a device with 1GB.
>
>At the moment the Archos G9 tablets based on OMAP4 seem to be the best bet.
>However, it's not clear whether they have 1GB RAM from the specs, delivery
>is erratic, and some reviews show quality problems with the screen on the
>8" version.  However they are very keenly priced. Battery life on Intel
>Atom units I saw is poor, and the big batteries make them heavy and clunky.
>
>Chris
>
>
>On 28 January 2012 22:19, Mitchell Reese <mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Just had a quick squiz, and while the transformer prime seems like it
>> sports an unlocked bootloader, the only way I found to get Ubuntu running
>> was through a chroot. I really don't recommend using this method for a dev
>> device. I think we need something natively installed, without android, or
>> we're going to be stuck within the limitations of a vnc viewing program.
>>
>>
>
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