Where are the Linux tablets?

Feb 07, 2010
For Linux.

If you google anything like “linux tablet PC” you get tons of hits. Most of those hits are hobbiest explaining their process for getting Linux on their trusty tablets. Most of these tablets are either older models (read BIG) or very costly models. There are even some links that point to Emperor Linux and their overly priced tablet PCs ($2,100 for their bottom-line $4,400.00 for their top-line).

If you keep digging you will start to see more modern instances of tablets, like the Asus E91T which can be outfitted with Linux (but only ships with Windows). You will also see a number of up and coming models that will be shipping with the Android OS (we’ll count Android because it was based on the Linux kernel - even though all Android code has been pulled from the Linux kernel).

What is missing in this mix (outside of the out-of-reach Emperor Linux hardware) is a tablet PC pre-installed with Linux. This is not acceptable. Linux owned the netbook market and now the “new” market is arriving and it seems it’s doing nothing to make headway. I don’t get it. The support is all there. Touchscreen? Check. Wireless? Check. Video? Check. Sound? Check. So where is the disconnect?

Source: TechRepublic (blog)

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Win7.
Released to complement the Windows Vista, Windows 7 didapuk important task for presenting the features and services that did not get presented in Windows Vista. Because of these considerations, it is Microsoft's promise to not require hardware capacity is too high, in fact, practically the same as the hardware requirements in Windows Vista.

The problem is, whether the latest products from Microsoft will be used in netbooks? Given Microsoft's certainly not going to release Windows 7 low prices. However, Microsoft could also make a cheap edition of Windows 7 for netbooks. Still a big question mark whether the netbook will feel the Windows 7 or not.

Touchscreen.
Touchscreen becomes a considerable issue was widely among fans netbook, the article on this year began popping up a lot of laptops that will adapt the touchscreen features. As Third Generation Intel Classmate is already equipped with a pen and touch screen.

Back to Windows 7, the touchscreen features it also has breathed in this system. In fact, not just the touchscreen, but the multi touch can menditeksi more than one touch at the same time.

3G.
As the name implies, the Internet and notebooks. Of course, the netbook trend never left with the Internet. Year 2009 and this will be the year 3G mini laptop resurrection. And consumers are most fortunate because with the netbook course, the term "world in the grip" will be really real. No more looking for places to hotspots wi-fi. Since netbooks are now equipped with 3G modules are already integrated in it. This outbreak started in the netbook Aspire One and the Mini 9 already includes integrated 3G in the engine.

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