[ale] Tablet Keyboard

[Jim Kinney]

Yeah, battery life I can justify. Dell/Acer is stupid low battery. Yes
the tablets are far less total mass to lug around as well.

For me, I want to know that the portable gizmo I have can do what I
need to do. The Acer netbook is the smallest I can go and the keyboard
is cramped for that. I did bump up the battery from 3 cell to 9 so it
doubled in weight but went to 8+ hours of use. That works! The
replacement 30GB hard drive from the 8GB flash drive gave me room for
a full distro. So I bumped up the RAM to 1.5GB and crammed on a full
Fedora install.

I would like to go the other way with my laptop by getting a
multi-touch screen and ultra long-life power savings system. Something
that ramps down wifi power when not in use as well as flash drive, led
backlight or OLED screen and on-demand multi-core cpu so it will power
down unused cores and, of course, 100% Linux compatible (preferably
shipping bare).

If it can hit the sub $500 range, wow!

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> I can understand how that sounds funny. I still use my laptop for things
> that need more horsepower or more screen real estate and enjoy it when I
> need it. However, even with my add on case and keyboard, the tablet is SO SO
> much more portable than the laptop. It's probably more portable than a
> netbook, although I've never owned a netbook. This thing is so compact, I
> can just grab it any time I'm running out the door just like I would a
> medium sized book. As long as I can get access to a wifi signal, I know I
> can do 85 - 90% of what I can with the PC. With the Verizon Jet Pack
> [assuming I want to pay the data fee in a given month], I can even type this
> reply riding in my car, as a passenger, way out in the boonies in Tennessee.
> That's very cool. I've got the laptop, but it's in the trunk at the moment,
> and it's battery doesn't last nearly as long.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
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> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can't stop giggling. "I got a new tablet! Now it just needs a keyboard."
>>
>> If my laptop had twice the horsepower of a table, I'd be chomping at
>> the bit to upgrade.
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
>> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>On 08/31/2012 11:12 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
>> >>> No, but every couple of months I go into a Micro Center type or HL
>> >>> computers store to see if any of their bluetooth keyboards will
>> >>> successfully pair with an Android phone.   Thus far we've found that
>> >>> keyboards that work with Apple devices fail to pair with Android.
>> >>> Android devices want a password specified, Apple do not, and thus far
>> >>> I've left the store without anything that worked.
>> >>
>> >>I noted early in the bluetooth roll-out that many devices used "0000"
>> >>as
>> >>their password.  Since then, for any device that didn't explicitly
>> >>document one, I've used that.  Hasn't failed me yet.
>> >>
>> >>HTH,
>> >>
>> >>Phil
>> >
>> > You can also try 1234 if 0000 doesn't work.
>> >
>> > Ron
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

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