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| freelight wrote: | If Google does release one of these, it will most likely run Android rather than ChromeOS or a full OS. But then again, Android can multitask and will have Flash soon, so that's not necessarily a bad thing.
A big-screen iPod Touch is not necessarily a bad thing either, but it's too expensive for what it is. |
There are rumours around. HTC was upposed to have one almost ready. They didn't say if it was Android or ChromeOS. Apparently they have shelved it (or possibly just delayed). Of course, the Google Nexus was produced by HTC, so probably the tablet will too if or when it comes.
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Honestly, gPad would be better suited with ChromeOS IMO. They should do a tablet thingy instead of netbooks.
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molot
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:32 am Post subject: iPad |
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Did anyone tried to put Gentoo on that?
With a little of hardware hacking, it may be well worth it's price, but I'm not gonna be mind-controlled by any company, no way.
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molot
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Well. iFree is Atom - x86, that is. iPad is based on apple's cpu, probably arm; this not gonna be that easy.
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gentoo on iPad is foolish ( =P )
iPad has not been designed to be Open
it's closed, it's dedicated, it's TRUSTED computing
(and it's very dedicated)
also the Apple iPad is better than other solutions cause of its "interface"
iPad is better cause it's a "all in one" solution pretty designed around a pretty GUI
the so called "capacitive multi touch"
(which linux kernel and x11 has not in their support... and a lot of work is required to support it)
so ...
if you want something around develop by your self ...
you'd better look for android hw compliant
... or like the beagle board + LCD + touchscreen
(p.s. it will cost the less, you will be much more satisfied) |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Merged above four posts here.
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molot
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| ddc wrote: | | gentoo on iPad is foolish ( =P ) |
Kinda like rockbox on iPod - maybe foolish for some, but gives much more freedom.
| ddc wrote: | | iPad has not been designed to be Open |
Neither was iPods, but rockbox works great.
| ddc wrote: | it's closed, it's dedicated, it's TRUSTED computing
(and it's very dedicated) |
I disagree "trusted" part. Having both points expressed plz stick to technological discussion.
| ddc wrote: | also the Apple iPad is better than other solutions cause of its "interface"
iPad is better cause it's a "all in one" solution pretty designed around a pretty GUI |
Those are the very reasons to make it bad for me, not good. Gentoo was always about choice. If your choice is not to use it, great, I have nothing to do with it. but please respect my choices.
| ddc wrote: | the so called "capacitive multi touch"
(which linux kernel and x11 has not in their support... and a lot of work is required to support it) |
And I'm willing to take my part in doing those work, even if merely as beta-tester.
| ddc wrote: | so ...
if you want something around develop by your self ...
you'd better look for android hw compliant
... or like the beagle board + LCD + touchscreen |
i want something as light, based on arm or arm-like and with iPad-quality (as it seems to be now) screen. There is nothing competitive in means of hardware...
| ddc wrote: | | (p.s. it will cost the less, you will be much more satisfied) |
Building tablet from scratch will never cost me less due to huge difference between bulk and retail prices (hope I've got the words right, I'm not a native speaker).
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| molot wrote: | | ddc wrote: | the so called "capacitive multi touch"
(which linux kernel and x11 has not in their support... and a lot of work is required to support it) |
And I'm willing to take my part in doing those work, even if merely as beta-tester. |
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molot
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Yeah, I know. I'm regular reader. Anyway - there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj590HkBwYg you can see multitouch do works in Linux. It's not yet fully supported, lacks some drivers and so on, but it is there and it works. So it's whole different story than usb in an arm.
And as far as I remember, there was successful implants to substitute eyes and ears, so... Maybe not usb, but it's certainly possible to have audio and video in installed. May we quit OT now? ;P
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