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I buy mine because I'll jump through any hoop to not carry around a fortune 500 in my pocket
For the consumer market -- runnability of android? hardware quality? low price? Some compatibility factor that only an open company can hit?
If this functionality was demoed by Apple on a new $999 "MacPad Pro" there would be arguments over if it was the end of the PC and the beginning of the next generation of computing, a leap like the smartphone revolution.
Edits: price, s/this/this functionality/
I took this out of context (sorry), it's a very pre-production device that has received a lot of work since then and will receive much more. https://www.pine64.org/2020/05/15/may-update-pinetab-pre-ord...
I was thinking I'd get cheap Android tablets and root them, but I'd much rather support something where it's built for user control from the beginning.
Is this more of a hacker device (IR blaster, odd assortment of ports, full OS, etc.) or consumer? It should ideally pass the wife test...
The webpage for the product is https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
How is touch screen on linux these days, I'm probably pick one up but can't imagine running UBports on 2GB ram. I would rather use i3/lighter DE + touch screen support for some GUI apps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6lAjgfW3c If this functionality was demoed by Apple on a new $999 "MacPad Pro" there would be arguments over if it was the end of the PC and the beginning of the next generation of computing, a leap like the smartphone revolution. Edits: price, s/this/this functionality/ I took this out of context (sorry), it's a very pre-production device that has received a lot of work since then a…
The PineTab – $99.99 The magnetic backlit keyboard – $19.99
That's interesting. I love my iPad mini 5, but at this price I may have to pick one of these up.
I use a Surface Book. I’ve been interested to discover that I would quite often like to have the keyboard continue to work after detaching the base, because when drawing on the device a keyboard is still useful for switching between tools, activating things, typing in precise values when necessary, &c. To be sure, a large part of this is just that I’m using apps that haven’t been optimised for keyboardless usage (I’m talking things like Krita, Inkscape, OpenToonz), but even if they were, a keyboard would still be useful. As it stands, I’d need to buy a second keyboard, one that worked by Bluetooth, to achieve this goal.
(In the particular case of the Surface Book, detaching the base isn’t quite as useful as you might imagine, because ¾ of the battery life is in it, so you’ll get ~3h at most, <2h if using it much.)