"A tablet when you want it, a PC when you need it"
I'm not sure if I'm being naive, but it seems to me that for a decade, the laptop market has had a ridiculous hole. There is a market for something which is not windows, at a sub $500-$600 price that is good. Tablet UI, desktop, whatever. Something that can run skype, whatsapp, tinder and the other network-effect apps that can replace their 3 year old home laptop and be an improvement.
How is it possible that all the mobile stuff from the last decade has not opened up real and substantial competition to Windows in that bracket.
Anyway, this looks easily worth €259 if think you may want one.
The linked page states it's using Ubuntu 15.04 as OS, however 15.04 is marked as EOL-ed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Is there an easy OS upgrade path? I wonder why they did not go with an LTS release, 16.04 is just around the corner in April and would probably serve their release better.
I want to be really excited by this because this seems very cool but the mediatek processor and the 2 GB of RAM makes this a lot less interesting. Mediatek usually provides a closed off, low price, low performance chip which kind of clashes with what I want from an Ubuntu device.
I've seen a lot of Linux tablets, and so far they've always been a touchscreen added to an early 2000's desktop-style interface: small touch targets, gestures don't work in obvious places etc.
That said, it's been a while so I could be out of date: is the Linux desktop UI and apps used by the Ubuntu tablet touch focused?
Edit: Linux as in the common usage of 'Linux kernel, glibc, X', not Android. Which you knew.
I'm happy to see an Ubuntu tablet but about "A tablet when you want it, a PC when you need it.", who wants a PC with 2 GB of RAM?
Does anybody know if a "normal" Android BQ M10 can be converted to a fully Ubuntu tablet? When yes, how to install Ubuntu there?
Anyone have experience with BQ HW? Is it any good?
For the price (300eur) I'd actually be willing to try the HD 1920 x 1200 version, IF the HW and battery life turn out to be solid.
As per usual; I wonder what the battery life is like. That is really / still the only thing I look for. If it's good enough I would pre-order.
Seriously? 2 gigs of ram! I wonder how much Unity will be hogging when running in PC mode.
It's exciting that Ubuntu offers phones and tablets. But what's the gain to have a PC frontend while not having a real PC? Ubuntu should seriously consider to offer an additional Tablet with 4 GB RAM and real Linux, at least in a docker like vm.
Only such a device would be really interesting for Linux developers and sys admins. 2 GB are good for basic things (surfing, emails, office) but compilation, simulation, testing etc. would be problematic. If such things are not possible then a notebook remains the better choice.
Time to spend the Jolla Tablet refund money I suppose :)
All looks really interesting but only 16 GB internal memory? I mean if I could move my user directory in it's entirety to the MicroSD I could see that working as 16 would be way more than enough for system, but that seems hackey. I feel like they could easily get that to 64 GB and add a few bucks to the price tag, I would buy one of these in a hot second if they did.
IT says it has external memory expansion. Does this mean that there's a micro SD card slot anywhere? The only real issue I see is that (after the OS) I'd only have about 10 gig for applications and files. If I could put an sd card in there, no problem, otherwise it would hardly suffice as a PC.
interesting. Think Webstorm/Intellij would run decently on this? I've been looking for a new tablet; and have been dreading getting an Ipad...
Looks like it's ARM. I suppose that's okay for many, but if you need programs like R, you're out of luck. I'd immediately buy one if it had an Intel or AMD processor.
Why would I buy this over a laptop?
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Can I install something like this on my Windows 10 tablet, and could it run jupyter/Python?
But... why?
how about that ubuntu phone
>no dedicated full sized USB port
Why is the surface the only tablet to have a dedicated full sized USB port? It seems like one of the most important things to have in any tablet.
one word: balls!
Wrong title, missing: in UK.
> The world’s first convergent tablet
Sorry guys, M$FT had you beat to market by about... what, four years?
> 16 GB internal memory
Come the fuck on, now. I don't want to deal with the atrocious read/write speeds of MicroSD. 16 GB internal memory hasn't been impressive since sometime around 2007.
This looks promising but it's definitely not for me. I hope someone uses it and likes it, but I think it still has a ways to go before it's more than a novelty.
I even don't hope it is free of closed-source drivers. Thus I won't even look at buying it.
As a consumer, I find it completely uninteresting unless it can run Android apps. If Play Store is an impossibility, support alternative apps stores such as F-Droid or 9apps.
Just ordered one. I had a chat to the BQ team in London recently. They're selling CyanogenMod Android phones as well. The CEO was quite clear that flashing a new OS wasn't going to void the warranty.
I didn't get to play with their Ubuntu tablets, but their Android ones are well built, responsive, and have very clear screens.
This isn't going to replace your totally tricked-out MacBook - but as a portable web-browser / word processor / coding machine, I have high hopes for it.