Re: Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet

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Author: Stephen Partington
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Subject: Re: Spiffy Ubuntu based Tablet
note there are 2 different sizes of device.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Mark Phillips <>
wrote:

> 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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