Q. I have enough money for (an inexpensive) one. I would really like to get as much use out of it as I can. Preferably, I'd like an operating system on it (Linux would be fine).
I would like to use it in my car, but I'm concerned that a keyboard would be cumbersome.
Can one suffice for the other, or are they different enough from each other that you really need both?
If you have both, which one do you wish you would have gotten first?
Your advice is appreciated.
I would like to use it in my car, but I'm concerned that a keyboard would be cumbersome.
Can one suffice for the other, or are they different enough from each other that you really need both?
If you have both, which one do you wish you would have gotten first?
Your advice is appreciated.
A. I have a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X201 Tablet, i7 processor, Wacom penable touchscreen, windows 7, works okay with 8, 6GB ram, excellant battery life
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Tablet-Windows-Professional/dp/B003KU2DFW
see on youtube for stress testing videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lH07R0J9rY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZEOM3D7_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNmeNV4e-Q
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Tablet-Windows-Professional/dp/B003KU2DFW
see on youtube for stress testing videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lH07R0J9rY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZEOM3D7_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNmeNV4e-Q
Can a Wacom Bamboo Tablet plug into a HP notebook?
Q. I am getting a Wacom Bamboo Tablet soon and my Mother says she will have my laptop if it can only go into a Desktop... I google it but they didn't have the answer. any help?
A. The tablet is a USB device and as long as the OS on the notebook supports it then it will work.
The Bamboo Tablets work with XP (SP2 or above) , Vista and Windows 7 (as well as Mac OS X 10.4), so unless you are running a flavour of Linux it should work straight out of the box.
The Bamboo Tablets work with XP (SP2 or above) , Vista and Windows 7 (as well as Mac OS X 10.4), so unless you are running a flavour of Linux it should work straight out of the box.
Can an android tablet be booted from a usb port?
Q. I was wondering if I can run one of those light weight linux distro installed on a usb flash drive on one of those android tablets.
1) Is there a cheap tablet PC (under $200) that can be booted from a usb port?
3) Can I find a lightweight linux distro that has all the drivers for that tablet?
Thanks for replying.
1) Is there a cheap tablet PC (under $200) that can be booted from a usb port?
3) Can I find a lightweight linux distro that has all the drivers for that tablet?
Thanks for replying.
A. First of all, Android is Linux. It's a custom Linux kernel with a special software layer on top. And the customizations to the kernel and the software layer sitting on top of it are pretty important for it to run on the rather specialized smartphone architecture.
Second, a kernel has to be compiled to run on a certain architecture. So you'd have to find a version of Linux compiled for an ARM processor. That's not much of a problem. Several distributions, including Ubuntu, have ARM kernels. But then you'd have to have kernel modules for the drivers of the smartphone hardware, which... isn't nearly as likely. And you'd probably need a specially-designed interface, since Gnome or KDE really wouldn't work on a 4-inch touchscreen. And all of that would also have to be specially compiled for the kernel. And that's before we start with the application software. And by the time you got all of that working... you'd essentially have Android.
And even if you could do all of that, you'd have to have some way of booting from the USB, which you can't since smartphone firmware boots the kernel directly, without any sort of bootloader like you have on a personal computer.
If you want Android to be more Linux-y -- whatever that means, since the Linux experience differs greatly based on the graphical interface (assuming you use one) -- you can install a terminal emulator and even the bash shell. If you play around with it a bit, you might be able to install some command-line Linux software. But even then, it wouldn't be terribly useful, given the limited ability to enter text on a smartphone.
Second, a kernel has to be compiled to run on a certain architecture. So you'd have to find a version of Linux compiled for an ARM processor. That's not much of a problem. Several distributions, including Ubuntu, have ARM kernels. But then you'd have to have kernel modules for the drivers of the smartphone hardware, which... isn't nearly as likely. And you'd probably need a specially-designed interface, since Gnome or KDE really wouldn't work on a 4-inch touchscreen. And all of that would also have to be specially compiled for the kernel. And that's before we start with the application software. And by the time you got all of that working... you'd essentially have Android.
And even if you could do all of that, you'd have to have some way of booting from the USB, which you can't since smartphone firmware boots the kernel directly, without any sort of bootloader like you have on a personal computer.
If you want Android to be more Linux-y -- whatever that means, since the Linux experience differs greatly based on the graphical interface (assuming you use one) -- you can install a terminal emulator and even the bash shell. If you play around with it a bit, you might be able to install some command-line Linux software. But even then, it wouldn't be terribly useful, given the limited ability to enter text on a smartphone.
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