On 03/22/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: > > I just bought the same with doc for my grandmother-in-law who is laid > up in the hospital with a broken leg and so won't be using her desktop > for a while after returning home either. Beautiful machine. All you > could want in a tablet and most everything you could want from a > netbook. I would have gotten the prime, but BestBuy was back ordered > forever. Since both have Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) (Android 4.0.3), > the only significant difference to her (and most users I expect) would > be the weight. The prime is noticeably lighter and sleeker, so it > would have be worth it for Gammy, but the timing trumped it all. > > I've been watching the Transformer line since release and nothing has > come close in bang for your buck since. I have not yet bought one for > my house because I'm holding out for something with multi-user > abilities so my family can share it like we do our Ubuntu laptop with > out any fuss in switching users. I'm expecting some nice units to > come out on the heels of Ubuntu 12.04 next month since it is a > long-term-support release and the first LTS with the new, more tablet > friendly GUI. Also, there is a lot of talk about mutli-user support > coming in Android. There was some talk of it coming with ICS but I > have not seen it yet. Anyone? I've heard some good things about the transformer line. The market place will tend to make a big difference.
WRT: multi-user I don't think that tablets, per se, would be good multi-user systems. Of course, I know you would want to put OpenVMS on it :-) -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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