Rather than start a new one, I figured I'd ressurect a dead thread. I had started my hunt again now that a few months had passed, and taken a look at the android tablets. I figured this would be the ideal solution since I was impressed with my wife's android phone, and the ones that are out there right now look nice, but when I tried one out at Borders (Velocity Micro Cruz) the performance was poor. They seem to be hiding the specs on these tablets, not sharing the processor speed or memory, just the available storage. That or I'm not looking in the right spots. Does anyone know of an android tablet that doesn't suck?
In the meantime, my top contender right now is Asus Eee PC T101MT-EU17-BK. http://www.amazon.com/Asus-T101MT-EU17-BK-10-1-Inch-Convertible-Tablet/dp/B003D1DZBY I'm not seeing a lot of people loading linux on them, but there are a few and they're reporting success. Asus Eee PC's seem to have good linux support, so I'm thinking this might be my target. Assuming I don't come across an android tablet that doesn't suck, that is. My primary use for this device is to be able to read PDF's (think scans of a book, not necessarily OCR'd, so sometimes these are basically pages that are graphics that happen to be text) like an ebook reader. I'm hoping to only have to spend about $500 to do this, though less would be nice. If anyone has any thoughts/advice I would be appreciative. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net
_______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 6 - Creating Browser Extensions for Firefox and Chrome Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment
