[ale] Cheap tablets?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 08:46:30 EDT 2013


Google on "all winner a31 10" IPS" for some fondleslab porn. $250 gets an
no name iPad equivalent in android. No Bluetooth but quad-core arm and
strong community work to get cyanogen on these.
On Jun 20, 2013 7:26 AM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just don't buy the the one that I got. Has some sort of MIPS cpu with
> no FPU slow and painful to work with. I would aim at generic ARM from
> now on. Prices vary from $50 to $100 for no brand tablets. Post
> details about this project.
>
> On 6/20/13, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> > On 6/19/2013 21:49, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> >
> >> I like to run the Dolphin browser on my tablet, which is a bit more
> >> full featured than firefox.  I brought up a similar thread several
> >> months ago and there was some discussion about how to use the remote
> >> screen as an extension of your main one, but I don't remember the
> >> title or the date.  Let us know how it works out if you get one.  I
> >> carry my tablet with me where ever I go, so I haven't used it for an
> >> aux screen as you're discussing.  One other limit of cheap tablets to
> >> keep in mind is memory.  It probably has 4 gb of storage.  You may
> >> run out of that quickly if you want to store photos, documents,
> >> music, videos, audio books, or podcasts.  I'm probably using 25 GB
> >> total on my tablet for some of those purposes.  If it didn't have an
> >> sd card slot in addition to the internal memory, I'd be toast for
> >> what I use it for.
> >
> > I think you're misunderstanding my intentions.  It would not carry any
> > files or be used for storage in any way.  It literally would be bound to
> > the desk (or wall) never to move again unless the desk moves.  The
> > intent is to have the various tickers and monitors running on a browser
> > on the tablet so that I don't have to run them on the desktop.  No
> > extensions of the existing desktop (I do that already with the other
> > machines using Synergy), it's just a place to dump the little things
> > that don't need to occupy real estate, RAM, and CPU on my regular
> > machine and its screens.  Given that it's a mini computer with a browser
> > and HCI, it's all that I need for a browser based ticker.  Right now I
> > have most of the tickers running on Firefox windows (one per ticker).  I
> > can rewrite them to all appear on a single page and let Firefox/Chrome
> > run on the tablet (later on I can write an Android application to do it
> > but that's far in the future).
> >
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