Found this bit looking around for who pays this tax myself:
"Free Android is still available from Sony, Motorola, ASUS, Dell, Acer,
Cisco, Archos, Toshiba, Sharp, and many more."
Good to know Asus is still free - I rather like their hardware. Happens
to be refurbs for the original transformer for $300 today if interested.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1404521
The TF Prime is bootloader locked, but they're vowing to open it. I'm
holding out for the 1080p version of it.
I'll endorse the gtablet as I got one from woot a while back, runs
honeycomb nicely, just app support for it still kinda blows. I ran
cyanogen for a bit, and most various builds at one time, so it's very
hackable (ics on the way). I was sad to see your comment they pay the
m$ tax.
-mb
On 01/17/2012 12:51 PM, der.hans wrote:
Am 17. Jan, 2012 schwätzte Dazed_75 so:
I have a Transformer Hans. I will bring to to Stammtische tonight so you
can look it over. I have no idea whether Cyanogen is working on modding
Danke. I meant to ask about it Thursday, but got distracted.
it. I do know someone has ported an earlier version of ubuntu to run
on it
but the article said it was not complete and they had no idea about a
newer
ubuntu.
A good point. I would love to be able to run a normal distro on the tablet
as well.
Todd says the Ubuntu Tablet is doing nothing but talking so I don't look
for anything from there anytime soon.
OK.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:38 AM, der.hans <[email protected]> wrote:
Am 16. Jan, 2012 schwätzte Stephen so:
The 2 of those i would suggest would be the B&N and the Viewsonic
Gtab, they are both very nice physically, and the Gtab has identical
specs and performance to the Galaxy tab. I haven't looked to see if
any of those are doing the M$ licencing or not.
"Experience the Freedom of Android" is the tagline on the ViewSonic
product page, so I hope there's no m$ tax involved :). I'll sniff around
for that.
I looked up Viewsonic on the train in today and it appears Viewsonic is
also paying the bogus m$ tax :(.
Hmm, Asus Eee Pad Transformer might be available. That's an interesting
option. Foolish store is offering m$ office coupon with it.
Forgot to check out the Asus.
There's also the Toshiba Thrive.
Didn't find anything about Toshiba and the bogus m$ tax.
ciao,
der.hans
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