| 00:17.26 | ManoftheSea | mnemoc: lose |
| 02:46.56 | mikey_w | Is this the hardware you are developing -- Allwinner A10 Cortex A8 1GHz Android 2.3 Ultrathin 5-point Capacitive Tablet PC WiFi? |
| 03:20.11 | lkcl | mikey_w: no. the tablet market has tanked. products being considered include an LCD monitor, a 14in laptop, an all-in-one keyboard etc. |
| 03:20.24 | lkcl | so it massively varies: that's the entire point of the exercise. |
| 03:21.06 | lkcl | the EOMA initiative is about creating common standards for mass-volume products *plural*. |
| 03:23.44 | eduprey | lkcl: someone may make a tablet :) |
| 03:23.51 | lkcl | it'd be great |
| 03:23.52 | eduprey | open and all that |
| 03:24.06 | eduprey | lkcl: more interested in the laptop personally |
| 03:25.19 | eduprey | lkcl: and I want to do a 3d printer driver board -- debating between RTAI and offloading the real time processing to a STM32 on the board or something |
| 03:25.31 | eduprey | either way |
| 03:38.29 | lkcl | apologies - me and mr tablet are not best of friends |
| 03:38.58 | lkcl | oh - bari wanted to work on that |
| 03:39.31 | lkcl | yes of course a bloody tablet *grumble* |
| 03:39.51 | lkcl | if there are customers stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hwilling enough to pay for it |
| 03:39.54 | lkcl | *sigh*. |
| 03:40.42 | lkcl | i just... i remember someone going "oo i will buy an apple tablet!" |
| 03:41.02 | lkcl | like in bewitched, "nooo, you think we should do a hex" |
| 03:41.14 | lkcl | that's how i view the whole tablet thing |
| 03:41.18 | lkcl | and she bought one |
| 03:41.34 | lkcl | used it for about 30 mins and went, "this is so utterly insane and pointless" |
| 03:41.53 | lkcl | and passed a $600 device over to her son, who now uses it as a glorified MP3 player |
| 03:43.51 | eduprey | lkcl: there are good uses for a tablet. reading for one but a dedicated e-reader like Nook Simple Touch is fine for that too. admittedly most of what a tablet does though you can do fine on a smartphone or laptop. |
| 03:44.08 | eduprey | so it's kind of middle niche that doesn't often make a ton of sense |
| 03:45.17 | eduprey | really iPad is essentially just a oversized iphone without the ability to do voice dialing |
| 03:55.44 | mikey_w | So a small computer with display and a keyboard etc. |
| 03:56.08 | mikey_w | With open hardware and software. |
| 03:57.07 | mikey_w | Like this http://openpandora.org |
| 04:29.04 | A2Sheds | tablet/netbook with detachable keyboard anyway |
| 04:31.36 | A2Sheds | the point is modular appliances with eaom68 cards as the cpu |
| 04:35.52 | A2Sheds | I don't see the tablet for western markets, except for some niches |
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| 10:32.14 | mnemoc | ManoftheSea: lose :) |
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| 13:41.32 | A2Sheds | just fyi http://www.slyon.de/CAD/ the original CAD files for the Openmoko Neo 1973 (CC BY-SA): http://downloads.openmoko.org/developer/CAD/ http://downloads.openmoko.org/developer/CAD/ |
| 13:41.58 | A2Sheds | http://blog.slyon.de/3d-printed-gta04-case/ |