[ale] Cheap tablets?

[Boris Borisov]

Just don't buy the the one that I got. Has some sort of MIPS cpu with
no FPU slow and painful to work with. I would aim at generic ARM from
now on. Prices vary from $50 to $100 for no brand tablets. Post
details about this project.

On 6/20/13, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> On 6/19/2013 21:49, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>
>> I like to run the Dolphin browser on my tablet, which is a bit more
>> full featured than firefox.  I brought up a similar thread several
>> months ago and there was some discussion about how to use the remote
>> screen as an extension of your main one, but I don't remember the
>> title or the date.  Let us know how it works out if you get one.  I
>> carry my tablet with me where ever I go, so I haven't used it for an
>> aux screen as you're discussing.  One other limit of cheap tablets to
>> keep in mind is memory.  It probably has 4 gb of storage.  You may
>> run out of that quickly if you want to store photos, documents,
>> music, videos, audio books, or podcasts.  I'm probably using 25 GB
>> total on my tablet for some of those purposes.  If it didn't have an
>> sd card slot in addition to the internal memory, I'd be toast for
>> what I use it for.
>
> I think you're misunderstanding my intentions.  It would not carry any
> files or be used for storage in any way.  It literally would be bound to
> the desk (or wall) never to move again unless the desk moves.  The
> intent is to have the various tickers and monitors running on a browser
> on the tablet so that I don't have to run them on the desktop.  No
> extensions of the existing desktop (I do that already with the other
> machines using Synergy), it's just a place to dump the little things
> that don't need to occupy real estate, RAM, and CPU on my regular
> machine and its screens.  Given that it's a mini computer with a browser
> and HCI, it's all that I need for a browser based ticker.  Right now I
> have most of the tickers running on Firefox windows (one per ticker).  I
> can rewrite them to all appear on a single page and let Firefox/Chrome
> run on the tablet (later on I can write an Android application to do it
> but that's far in the future).
>
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