[ale] Ultra cheap tablet discussion. Are they useful or can they be made useful?

[Jim Kinney]

Cool!!! I've not tinkered with pine gear but always thought it looked promising. They are kind of the system76 of tiny.

That A-53 is tiny but can handle some really lightweight desktops. Gnome and kde would cause it to overheat, catch fire, and instantly burn down medium sized villages 🤣

Needs a stylus for note taking. Wouldn't dream of handwriting recognition on it but could auto upload to larger system - thinking nextcloud.

I can wait until July. Bookmarked the store page for that. I like it. $120 is not stupid cheap but compared high end kit it's very cheap.

Would love to overwrite iOS on a used ipad 😈

On June 28, 2020 9:09:26 AM EDT, Jonathan Meek <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:
>Have you considered the PineTab?
>
>https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
>It may not be ultra cheap but probably lands as cheap. 
>
>Regards,
>
>Jonathan
>
>> On Jun 27, 2020, at 9:56 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The Amazon's 7 inch tablet should have good hardware. It is cheap but
>you have to root it. There is plenty info on the web's.
>> 
>> From my experience once you put Google account on the cheapo tablet
>and that makes it gradually slowing down to crawling speeds. 
>> 
>> The more ram the better. I have an old one with single core and 1GB
>ram and works faster than supposedly 4 core with 512 MB. Yes I have
>bought all kinds of junk
>> 
>> But without updates becomes obsolete.
>> 
>> So much disposable hardware nowdays.
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 9:04 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>>> I've got several. They are total junk. I've not been able to get
>deep enough to install anything else. Slow. Under powered. Crappy
>screens. Glued shut so opening will make it nearly impossible to
>reassemble.
>>> 
>>> I got an Acer with an intel cpu and installed a Linux distro. Has a
>stylus that takes a 4A battery. $150?? Been a while. Used that for
>overseas travel in the event I couldn't get back in with it. Passable. 
>>> 
>>>> On June 27, 2020 6:28:19 PM EDT, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale"
><ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>> For a couple of years now, I have been seeing these really cheap
>($40 to $50) Android tablets in Wal-Mart, dollar stores, and places
>that normally don't even sell electronics.  Most of them are some brand
>no one has heard of, or a shameless re-licensing of old school brands
>like RCA or Polaroid.  I know they are going to be the cheapest of
>Chinese made junk, but how bad are they?  Would they be usable at all
>for basic web browsing?  I notice that most of them are running Android
>5.0 or 6 .0.  Have any of you played with any of these, or investigated
>upgrading the OS on them?
>>>> Allen B.
>>>> 
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