Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Zareason is making a 10 inch Open Tablet called ZaTab!!

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Billington
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 manag

Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Billington
tting > for file control. > > On the topic of "Chinese OEM's". I know a lot of those companies ship in > bulk just to get it out of China to retailers. I have seen few stores here > in Canada sell their products in stores. It's not a lot of stock but word > is get

Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Billington
being sued? On Feb 20, 2012 4:29 PM, "Alan Pope" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Chris, > > On 20/02/12 12:10, Chris Billington wrote: > > If we continue to chase the rest of the market by developing for > > proprietary platfor

Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Billington
d, Ubuntu tablets are going to remain a hobbyist niche with a microscopic user base. regards Chris On 20 February 2012 14:12, brian mullan wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Chris Billington < > billington.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The tablet PCs or sp

Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Billington
The tablet PCs or special purpose devices that have shipped in significant numbers are those where the manufacturer controls the hardware design as well as the software. For example: iPad, Nook, Kindle Color. Of those, two are USA-only. There are many Android tablets, but those (mostly) conform to

Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet

2012-01-29 Thread Chris Billington
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 pr

Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet

2012-01-29 Thread Chris Billington
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 t