I have hesitations about using the asus transformer prime as our development device. The main one is that it uses the kal-el tegra 3 chipset. While it's quad-core clocked at 1ghz, the gpu uses proprietary drivers from Nvidia. While I don't mind using proprietary drivers for gpu acceleration, (after all, texas instruments omap4 platform uses proprietary drivers) the linux support, other than android, with the tegra chipsets is abominable. While they have had some offerings consistently, they have usually been built for a kernel, and version, several steps behind the Ubuntu project.
To my knowledge, the asus transformer STILL doesn't have hardware acceleration, let alone the transformer prime. Also, I would check 2 other things with the prime: 1. Has Ubuntu been ported to it yet? 2. Has asus unlocked the bootloader? I think our best bet is to use an omap4 device, which Ubuntu has at least nominally started supporting with images for the pandaboard dev kit. Hardware acceleration also works. Looking ahead late this year, TI has also started working on omap5 chipsets... these are quadcore clocked at 1.6ghz, with up to 8gb of ram. Another option to look at for now, instead of the asus transformers, are the archos gen9 tablets. They are based on omap4, and there have been plans to release versions with thin 250 gb hard drives early this year. Also, archos has made a point in the past of providing easily installable amstrong linux images for their android tablets... meaning we should be able to use this to hack the bootloader, and put a Ubuntu arm image on instead. Also, if there was a device with a separate hard drive, we should be able to remove it and repartition it easily without special software, etc. Keen to hear everyone's thoughts, but I would strongly caution AGAINST using a tegra device like the transformer for a dev device. Mitchell Nicholas Shatokhin <[email protected]> wrote: >Very good choice :) Please, don't forget that in summer will be modified >Prime with bigger screen resolution (but I don't think that it's problem >:) ) > >But the problem of new tablet OS in small count of applications. So, I >hope Canonical will add us possibility to deploy ARM tablet apps into >Ubuntu Application Center as soon as possible. And recommendations of UI >design (likes Apples with iPad. Don't repeat the fate of Android Market). > >I think the Qt and QML is a good framework for apps' developing (tablets >have not very big memory and not so fast processors, so we need use more >productive technologies than Python or Java). > >Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:45:39 +0200 було написано Randall Ross ><[email protected]>: > >> Thanks all for the suggestions/links. >> >> After reading all the material and surveying the tablet space, I think >> the most promising tablet device for our 'prototype' is this one: >> http://eee.asus.com/en/eeepad/transformer-prime/specification/ >> >> Why? >> - It's light >> - It's new >> - It unifies tablets and netbooks, something that everyone else misses >> >> Is anyone working to get this "Ubuntu-Friendly"? Is this a target device >> for Canonical's OEM team? If not, it needs to be, quickly ;) >> >> Cheers, >> Randall >> >> > > >-- >За використання революційного клієнта електронної пошти Opera: >http://www.opera.com/mail/ > >-- >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >Post to : [email protected] >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
