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Cheap Linux Tablets, And (Maybe) An Apple Tablet

Posted by timothy on from the truth-and-speculation-obscure-each-other dept.

penguinrenegade writes "Element Computer has come out with the first sub-$1000 Tablet, and it doesn't come with Windows. It's not running a stripped OS like Windows CE, but a full-fledged copy of Lycoris Desktop/LX. This company seems to really have it in for Microsoft, with a 'No Windows' policy. Good to see someone finally standing up against paying the Microsoft tax. Maybe now we'll start seeing Linux only OEMs and resellers." Also on the tablet computer front, SeanAhern points out Cringely's latest Robert X. Cringely column, in which Cringley makes the case that Apple is readying a tablet computer for market, and "suggests that 'until next year, the parts won't have been there to make tablet PCs successful. What's missing has been the killer app, and what kept a killer app from appearing was a lack of hardware support, which I believe will be over soon,'" writing "He's got some interesting ideas about where Jobs might go with his Digital Hub idea." (This is an Antaur-based machine, not the Toshiba tablet mentioned in October.)

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  1. Some things are very very long. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Some Operating Systems are very good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Microsoft 0wnz me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man. This fucking pisses me off. I was at home, and the last thing I did was check my email (hotmail, yes I know). Everything was fine. Three hours later, I'm back at college, and check my email again. Microsoft changed the whole fucking layout/interface of Hotmail! On the one hand, it looks much more XP-like. On the other hand, I was so used to the other interface that I could check my email blind! Now, I have to relearn it all over again. It wouldn't be so bad if they only changed the graphics, but they changed location and depth of menu items! Fucking bastards.

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  9. Re:Some Operating Systems are very good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Windows runs solid on this NFORCE motherboard I have. APIC mode. Everything enabled. FreeBSD 5.1 does too.

    But when IO-APIC and L-APIC are enabled on 2.6.0 or 2.4.0 "stable", the board hangs. It hangs without a kernel panic or any information as to why it just hung.

    So this is true, this is one of thousands of things that makes Linux not qualify as "very good".

    I would say Linux is a poor rehash of late 1970's technology that fails to innovte anything new.

    A lot of this has to do with the fact several of the inner circle elite in Linux brag about not reading papers on how to do things right and re-invent things that have already been perfected in a poor way.

    Linux is a crude framework as a kernel, with a lot of drivers written for it. The meat and potatoes are all being added in by real vendors.

    While Linus was right in making Linux "better" than Minux, he is VERY far from being a prodigy in kernel design.

    Those of you who think Linux has anything other than being free (GNU/Infected) on things like Solaris or even FreeBSD are deluded.

  10. Re:WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USE by cacheMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  11. Re:a BOLD prediction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can get a new BMW 325 for $30K, well equiped.

    It's not *that* bad. It's not that bad at all, especially if you consider that you'll want to keep it around... If you're not in the market for an upper class car, and are poor, you don't want to lease or trade these things every year. Consider that you'll keep this thing 10 years. It's not a stretch for most people's driving habits.

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    That has to say something.

  12. Re:TEP STOP by cyt0plas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TEP is "The Exchange Project", now known as osCommerce.

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