Always Innovating Touch Book. This thing comes with a complete distro, an active community, and open hw/sw stack, so 1,2,5,6 are covered. It's rechargable, of course, and actually, comes in two chunks: the tablet chunk, with its own battery, and an optional dockable keyboard part that turns it into a clamshell netbook. This has *another* battery that gives you (IIRC), something ridiculous like 10 hours of running time. The tablet part opens up easily and has 2 or 3 USB ports *inside* so you can hide a 3G or GPS card in it without the dongles dongling around the outside. The tablet itself has an accelerometer and in many respects is comparable to a big iPod Touch (except no multitouch, but the company doesn't think multitouch is really all that important. The screen itself can be used with a stylus or finger, and in a regular `desktop' GUI or a special touch GUI. The only thing is that they're built on demand or something, so it takes a long time to get one. However they don't charge you until it ships. I think the software is maybe just now out of beta but still under heavy development. They'll let you take their OS, or Ubuntu or Android or pretty much anything you want. (Though I think you have to install anything else yourself). HTH On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, <kstratton@fastmail.us> wrote:
Anyone have a suggestion for a Linux tablet?
This is what I am looking for:
1) Ability to schedule and store and hot sync information to both linux and windows computers. 2) Ability to run arbritary apps, this includes: a) PDF viewer b) gcc or some other compiler 3) Ability to add external periphials such as a keyboard or mouse. Portability is more inportant than this feature. I would expect the keyboard/mouse would need external batteries. 4) Rechargable battery 5) A good technically oriented user base 6) Ability to reprogram the thing if I brick it.
I am open for all ideas. --
kstratton@fastmail.us
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