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[Chris Billington <billington.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

An interesting page from an organisation evaluating the current crop of SoC
CPUs from a Free Software perspective:
http://rhombus-tech.net/evaluated_cpus/
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/

They identified the 'Allwinner A10' as the best candidate (for their
purposes), due to the company management's willingness to release GPL
source code.
There are a _lot_ of 'Allwinner devices on the market (and in the pipeline)
which are widely distributed, so it appears to be a good development
platform for Ubuntu tablets, especially as there is the prospect of an open
driver for hardware-accelerated graphics.

Chris


On 21 May 2012 09:59, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19.05.2012 05:50, Daniel Clem wrote:
> > Firstly, sorry if this is a repeat message, I tried sending once, but
> > was with an email that wasn't registered on Launchpad. So I don't think
> > it posted properly. I hope it doesn't bother the moderators.
> >
> > Most likely alot of the people on this list have already seen the
> > article on OMG!Ubuntu. But Just wanted to put the info about it here
> > also and link to the ZaTab page.
> > (...)
>
> It certainly looks like an interesting piece of hardware, the best thing
> being that the bootloader is unlocked. But from what I see the
> Transformer is better both spec-wise and price-wise. You can get the
> TF101 on Amazon for around $340 (new, 16GB version, without the dock).
> So the only thing making this product interesting is the openness -
> which is nice.
>
> I would also have some doubts about the outer case and construction. At
> least it looks a bit second-class at the pictures. But that might just
> be the first-sight impression.
> Still, probably a nice choice for hacking.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
>  lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  www.canonical.com
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