Canonical Reveals The Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Reveals The Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet

As anticipated, the first official Ubuntu Tablet done in cooperation with Canonical is Bq's Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Aquaris-Tablet

[Cerberus]

Finally a converged device, and I like the announcement of more devices coming, Android version costs 259.90 EUR plus shipping, it is not too expensive for a tablet like that, I want to buy converged phone, but I will buy this if I get enough money to spare. Congratulations to Canonical.

[Herem]

If it is being touted as a convergence device it's a bit disappointing that the device only has 2GB of RAM. I would have liked to see the device come with 4GB RAM standard or at least had it as an option.

[hangingwithsnoopy]

The Meizu Pro 5 which is rumored to be doing an Ubuntu edition is much better specs. That Exynos 7420 seems like it is a 14nm beast of a cpu and the Mali octo core gpu with 3 to 4 GB of ram so expected this to be pretty amazing. Maybe it will have a great price but I am going to wait at this point.

[cjcox]

Not to be terribly pessimistic.... I'm hoping for at least some success... but gut says no.... hope I'm wrong.

[Cerberus]

If it is being touted as a convergence device it's a bit disappointing that the device only has 2GB of RAM. I would have liked to see the device come with 4GB RAM standard or at least had it as an option.

It probably works decently with 2 GB RAM, just like a desktop with 2 GB RAM can perform well, I dont think anyone expects to run Blender on a converged device, this is only the first device to break the ice, if the concept draws attention I am sure there will be more powerful phones and tablets coming in the future.

[M1kkko]

Every bit of me as a consumer is saying "meh". But at the same time, as a tinkerer, I'm extremely curious to find out if it ends up being capable of running X11 and some other desktop environment like XFCE. Then it could end up being a pretty fun device to work and play with.

[Cerberus]

Every bit of me as a consumer is saying "meh". But at the same time, as a tinkerer, I'm extremely curious to find out if it ends up being capable of running X11 and some other desktop environment like XFCE. Then it could end up being a pretty fun device to work and play with.

You will probably be able to install other desktop environments, but I doubt convergence will work much with them as everything is developed to integrate with Unity 8, but I may be wrong and it can work or some parts will work. It is an ARM device, running X applications on ARM processor requires XMir, does X11 work at all on ARM?

[imperfectlink]

This is suggesting that Unity 8 is more memory efficient than Unity 7 (and Android?).

[Cerberus]

This is suggesting that Unity 8 is more memory efficient than Unity 7 (and Android?).

X applications can be heavy regardless of how much Unity 8 uses, but I doubt anyone expects to run 10 X applications at once on a mobile device. Same restrictions probably apply as with desktops that have 2 GB RAM, dont overdo it. I saw a demo of several X applications plus mobile applications on a desktop with 2 GB RAM, it worked fine.