Hai Chris, I would love to start a company to create/sell "Ubuntu" tablets. I still think they could use some "refinements" that are already in GNOME Shell. E.g. the automatic creation of virtual desktops when opening a windows on an empty one. For managing those desktops I would like another desktop at the top or something like a button to have the option to move a window over there.
But back on topic: given the current designs and even patents owned by varies companies, how would one make a tablet that doesn't infringed said patents? Anyone serious about this can poke me on this mailing-list or IRC. Again, I would love to be able to do it, but currently I don't see a way to create that. With metta, Chris On Jan 29, 2012 1:54 PM, "Chris Billington" <[email protected]> wrote: > If you read the reviews or look on Youtube the Archos G9 has major quality > problems- digitiser issues, case flex, etc. It's not a quality item. > armel/armhf are compiler architectures, not connected to the hardware > architecture which is Cortex A9. If the RAM is 512MB then I can definitely > predict problems with running more than a couple of tabs in a browser. > So at the moment, nothing suitable seems to be on the market. The only > other candidate would be the HP Touchpad but that's a dead duck, after the > geniuses at HP reduced their $1.5bn to zero within a year. > If Canonical are talking to hardware makers about a preloaded tablet > (which they should, because Unity would be a nice interface to use) then > they are not saying who, what or when. They seem more focused on Ubuntu-TV, > but even that may never see the light of day. I don't know how commercially > focused they are, which is a shame after all the money Mark Shuttleworth > has poured into the project- he deserves something back. > Having initially hated Unity, I use it on my laptop and AC100- it is > developing fast and is becoming nice to use. > > Anyone want to start a company making an Ubuntu tablet? I am only half > joking here, since nobody else seems to be able to. > > Chris > > > > > On 29 January 2012 11:32, Mitchell Reese > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The 8 & 16gb versions of the archos gen9 all seem to have 512 mb of ram. >> Apparently the 'turbo' incarnations of these tablets coming out >> this year are clocked at 1.5ghz (dual core), and are said to have 1gb ram >> and 250 gb hard drive. These specs are all still to be confirmed, however I >> found a link earlier that seemed to point to some of these having been >> shipped already. Take this as a strong rumour though, as I haven't >> found the link again. >> >> Any ideas if the omap4 chipset is armel or armhf? >> >> Mitchell >> >> >> > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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