Re: Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet

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Author: Mark Phillips
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Subject: Re: Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet
I like the way the price jumps from $349 to $399 when one goes from the
home page to the product detail page. I wonder what the price will be once
you can put it in a shopping cart?? ;)

Mark

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Matt Graham <> wrote:

> On 01/14/2016 09:49 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.mj-technology.com/products/ubuntu-tablet
>>>> That's actually pretty spiffy as tablet devices go. Heck its pretty
>>>> spiffy as a number of devices go...
>>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>>
>>> Nice tablet. I wonder if it would run plasma-mobile.
>>>
>> On 2016-01-14 10:10, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>> given the resources and hardware it should run like a champ.
>>
>
> The specifications look reasonable. It'd probably be able to run things
> other than Ubuntu as well, depending on how many evil binary-only modules
> are necessary for the hardware bits.
>
> Are there any applications out there for x86 that are usable on a device
> with just a touchscreen? Lots of X11 programs seem to assume that
> precision mousing is available, and capacitive touchscreens fail at that.
> It'd probably need a keyboard, at least. Entering text on android devices
> with any of the keyboard widgets I've tried is like trying to paint while
> wearing oven mitts. But bluetooth and a bluetooth gamepad could mean a
> nice portable fceu/snes9x/psemu setup, perfect for long plane trips.
>
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