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Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by shmerl »

ddevault wrote: post #116
veridies wrote: post #109

This looks wonderful, and I bought it as soon as preorders opened; I'd love to have a Linux tablet to read books on and take to work (I'm a teacher, not a programmer). It definitely is pretty low-powered, though, and I'd appreciate a higher-end alternative. Is there any Windows-based tablet that you can reliably and easily install Linux on?

>Is there any Windows-based tablet that you can reliably and easily install Linux on? Samsung Series 7 Slate XE700T1A

Are there any tablets that have open drivers for GPU and touchscreen? Problem with blobs is that such tablets are forever stuck with ancient kernels.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by paulcole »

embrassingstuff wrote: post #56
djrogers wrote: post #34

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Uhh, that looks... Horrible. And I say that as someone typing this on a keyboard attached tablet right now - I love keyboard attached tablets, but that looks janky and laggy as heck. Apple would be KILLED if they released anything with that much touch lag.

Which tablet/keyboard combination are you happiest with ? I really want something that I hold on my lap for some emails. Most models have that back supporting leg which is for table use only.

The iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard is incredible. If you can get past the astronomical cost, it’s so worth it.

The biggest difference is that the Magic Keyboard never fails. Not like it works 95% of the time or even 99% of the time. 100% of the time it types when you expect it to, connects when you want it to, disconnects easily, doesn’t double inputs or skip inputs. There’s nothing I would change about it.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by wpietri »

jcun4128 wrote: post #21
wpietri wrote: post #13

Very interesting! I've been looking for cheap wall-mountable touchscreens so I can have permanent, single-purpose interfaces and displays. For example, I have a KanbanFlow board to track my work, and I use an old tablet mounted to the wall next to my standing desk. 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.

Side thought... is it even cheaper if you just have displays/use an ESP to do http requests to a local server... guess depends what they have to do. I mean I think you would need a 32 to drive the display too vs. just an ESP01

Dollar cheaper perhaps, but not time cheaper for me. I just want an easy place to display web pages and web apps.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by jcun4128 »

wpietri wrote: post #143
jcun4128 wrote: post #21

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Side thought... is it even cheaper if you just have displays/use an ESP to do http requests to a local server... guess depends what they have to do. I mean I think you would need a 32 to drive the display too vs. just an ESP01

Dollar cheaper perhaps, but not time cheaper for me. I just want an easy place to display web pages and web apps.

Yeah that's true, it took me a long time to figure out how to flash my ESP01 haha

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by bigiain »

slantyyz wrote: post #2

I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me. What I'd like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only. I'd like to have "smart" displays wall mounted around the house with dashboards on them. I've read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.

> I've read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.

Made that mistake myself. I now have a wall mounted iPad with the charger plugged into a timer powerpoint that only switches on for 1hr a day. Been running like that for 5+ years now without issue. (I'd planned for that to just be a proof of concept, and to use a wifi powerpoint that'd turn on when the battery dropped to 20% and back off where it hit 80%. The easy solution has turned out to be "good enough" and has remained in production, like that cronjob perl script from 2004...)

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by renewiltord »

michaelmrose wrote: post #136
renewiltord wrote: post #127

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Well, if it's a high-res display then there's a lot more pixels so a greater chance of failure. I actually really like this system and wish that I could trade-off further down the spectrum on quality. After all, to get a zero-dead-pixel device you just have to check in the second-hand market like people do for high-binned CPUs. The volume of true demand for those CPUs is high enough that there are retailers like Sili…

>It turns out that most consumers don't really want a zero-dead-pixel guarantee though. Alternatively they just buy their displays from brick and mortar companies that allow you to return for any reason at all and just return for replacement any device that has any number of dead pixels. I've never bought a display that had any number of defective pixels in almost 3 decades of using computers I'm betting lots of peop…

That's awesome. I'm glad you're able to get what you want there. That explains it. I'm all for this market segmentation happening.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by megous »

ProZsolt wrote: post #137
m463 wrote: post #133

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I have to say though - this is not a windows or macos machine. Each of those operating systems run an enormous number of background processes (many not in your best interests) Meanwhile with linux your memory needs are generally modest.

Till you want to run some electron apps

Depends on the apps. Electron itself is ~80-100MiB

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by bleegastan »

...2GB RAM is a bit of a disappointment for those of us spoiled by higher end devices (like my Note 10+ w/ Dex), BUT - there is room to expand with some kinda SD and then map a bunch of SWAP space to it, right?

Won't a generous allocation of swap compensate?

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