John My only thoughts are more complaints about my asus 1000h eeepc so take it with a pound of salt since it may not be similar to your needs or experiences. The wireless card after two years no longer lists with lspci on the current install or a live boot. This seems to happen frequently on lots of laptops but is still annoying. It seems to have burnt up. The hotkeys still to this day don't map and the external video output doesn't work correctly, both the external and the monitor are on at the same time and run at 1024 x 768 which doesn't work for the eeepc monitor that is 1024 x 600. Also apps / dialog boxes that are expecting 1024 x 768 as a minimum resolution are fun to get working! The 12 inch models are 1280 x 800 which is the way I would go if I did it again. Unfortunately Asus doesn't have a tablet of this size and the brands that do are around $1000. I haven't tried recently but when I tried 8.04 on a Panasonic toughbook everything worked but there was no way to calibrate the screen, or at least that I could find. Hopefully this has changed. Perhaps there is a store that has the model you want that you could try a live boot with.
Matthias On Oct 4, 2010 4:48 PM, "John Mort" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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