Hai Chris,
I would love to start a company to create/sell "Ubuntu" tablets. I still
think they could use some "refinements" that are already in GNOME Shell.
E.g. the automatic creation of virtual desktops when opening a windows on
an empty one. For managing those desktops I would like another desktop at
the top or something like a button to have the option to move a window
over
there.
But back on topic: given the current designs and even patents owned by
varies companies, how would one make a tablet that doesn't infringed said
patents?
Anyone serious about this can poke me on this mailing-list or IRC.
Again, I
would love to be able to do it, but currently I don't see a way to create
that.
With metta, Chris
On Jan 29, 2012 1:54 PM, "Chris Billington" <billington.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If you read the reviews or look on Youtube the Archos G9 has major
quality
problems- digitiser issues, case flex, etc. It's not a quality item.
armel/armhf are compiler architectures, not connected to the hardware
architecture which is Cortex A9. If the RAM is 512MB then I can
definitely
predict problems with running more than a couple of tabs in a browser.
So at the moment, nothing suitable seems to be on the market. The only
other candidate would be the HP Touchpad but that's a dead duck, after
the
geniuses at HP reduced their $1.5bn to zero within a year.
If Canonical are talking to hardware makers about a preloaded tablet
(which they should, because Unity would be a nice interface to use) then
they are not saying who, what or when. They seem more focused on
Ubuntu-TV,
but even that may never see the light of day. I don't know how
commercially
focused they are, which is a shame after all the money Mark Shuttleworth
has poured into the project- he deserves something back.
Having initially hated Unity, I use it on my laptop and AC100- it is
developing fast and is becoming nice to use.
Anyone want to start a company making an Ubuntu tablet? I am only half
joking here, since nobody else seems to be able to.
Chris
On 29 January 2012 11:32, Mitchell Reese
<mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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
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