Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order (opens in new tab)

So you can install and run nginx, redis, Atom.io, postgres etc. on this?

I think it'd be awesome if they could also offer some migration path from Android in order to attract more users.

I don't care that much, but I guess a lot of people would be very happy if they could run Android applications using something like Alien Dalvik, like Jolla does. In the foreseeable future, I don't see many applications developed for other platforms apart from iOS and Android.

Isn't this exactly what all those Chromebooks are? I mean they haven't exactly set the world on fire, but they exist.

Why would you want tinder on a laptop?

I'd pay more for a device that allows you to code, write a doc, do basic photo processing, etc. In my case, I wouldn't bring my 15" macbook pro when travelling or going a business meeting, but this could go anywhere

Asus tried with the EEEPC. MS And Intel stepped in it to protect their ultraprotable markup.

That's exactly what netbooks were, right? And Chromebooks are basically a resurrection of the same idea.

Tablets basically took that space, I think.

Can you elaborate more? Given your requirements any modern tablet should be a suitable fit. I have a 7" Android tablet that basically runs anything my phone can run with the upside that I can watch movies on it.

It's called a Chromebook :P But I do get what you mean

15.04 is EOL on desktops (unity7) not on Phones/Tablets (unity8).

I felt the same, especially after the ubuntu phone stunt on kickstarter which had 4GB of ram.

Maybe what we are both looking for is a tablet like the microsoft surface, but running essentially ubuntu.

For that matter, any tablet that can compete with the microsoft surface and run an operating system that is both great for developing and great for touch and mobility.

Apple is only a few steps away in my opinion. If only they would open up the iPad Pro so that developers could use if for development. It might even bring with it a new shift in UI for developers :)

I thought the bummer was the 2GB of ram and 16GB of storage..

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mediatek-MT8165-Tablet-SoC.1484...

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

I've been interested in evaluating Mediatek processors for desktop usage for a while now. I think this tablet offers the best opportunity (and lowest friction) to do this due to who they're target this at: developers and open software folk (unlocked, open software).

Hopefully, this'll turn out a positive experience and more OEMs hop on board.

What was your intended use of an Ubuntu tablet? Server-farm? Gaming?

I am pretty excited, but it is Linux on a tablet, which is kinda the worst of the worst from a performance perspective. Hopefully this marks the beginning of an increasing trend of more open & capable Operating Systems on our mobile devices.

Apple has also 2GB RAM for the new iPad "Pro"

Double the price tho

This is not a Linux tablet in that hacked-up sense. It's Ubuntu Phone. I've been using this for a year now on my Aquaris E5 and while it's not quite as smooth as IOS and Android quite yet, and that's only because my hardware is a little slow, it's definitely a full touch-oriented design from the ground up. I actually like the design better than the grid-of-icons approach. It's more sophisticated. And I'm not a zealot: I am highly critical of the buggy browser and the lack of apps, especially whatsapp.

But OS design-wise, this is absolutely not some kind of desktop UI squeezed into tablet form with a cranky layer of touch glued on top.

I'm not sure what "an early 2000's desktop-style interface" means, but the Linux-based Nokia tablets/phones aren't like anything I remember seeing on a desktop then; likewise Ubuntu Touch on he phone, of which you can find videos.

yes it's just like an android tablet, only better

Haven't you seen a single of these “Android Linux” tablets in the last five years or so?

Plenty of people only need 2 GB of ram. See all the notebooks which have tiny SSDs (64 GB) and small amounts of ram (less than 4 GB).

That's fine for email, youtube, streaming movies, listening to music, doing a bit of light word processing or spreadsheeting. It's great for social media and most website use.

And these machines are very cheap.

The same people that buy chromebooks

My son has a BQ smartphone, and battery life is much better than his previous Samsung's.

I recently bought my first smartphone(!), a BQ A4.5, pure android, always updated, with 5 years of guarantee(!) by 150€. I recommend it: good battery, good western design and enough performance for me (low resolution with a good screen improves performance).

I have a BQ E5 Ubuntu Edition(running android now) that I got nearly 1 month ago. Hardware has been okay so far, this phone has ram trouble with ubuntu touch.

It is okay running android, a little under powered I think.

Do you buy a lot of tablets or do you find most to have unacceptable battery life? The battery on my 2013 Nexus 7 is crazy good as far as I can tell and lasts for days of moderate use even two years into its life span. Compared to my phone which likes to die partway through the day even without me touching it.

Unity 8 unlike previous version isn't based on Compiz, but Qt.

Unity is not a memory hog anymore.

It says in the specifications: "MicroSD™ up to 200 GB1 (ext3). Available space for storing multimedia files".

Yep, I'd rather lug around a laptop with a 500GB SSD than have to deal with an external usb drive, just so I could have a tablet.

What are you talking about? I am using R on Slackware 14.1 on an ARM device. It works perfectly once you compile it.

Weight is fairly important factor for me. This beats my travel laptop.

If your tablet is ARM and running Windows RT then you probably need a Windows exploit to be able to run your own code.

http://www.wpinternals.net/

If your tablet is a PC (Intel/AMD/x86 etc) then turning off UEFI Secure Boot and booting from USB should let you run your own code.

Once you can run your own code you should be able to install Python/jupyter.

There's lot of talk of people moving away from laptops and full computers, and just buying a tablet instead. If you only want a device for watching videos, reading articles, online shopping, social media and email, a tablet is probably fine.

This concept in principle allows you to have a tablet, which is relatively cheap and can be used on the sofa and in bed, but retain the option of adding a keyboard, and/or using desktop applications on occasion, when you might need them. The drawback is that you lose access to Android/iOS native apps, and also that ARM processors are slow.

I would say it's not a million miles behind Chromebooks or Android tablets (given that Chromebooks are quite limited, and Android tablet apps don't have a great reputation). If ARM processors take a step forward over the next year or two, companies continue to develop for the mobile web rather than shift towards native apps, and Linux userspace software stacks (and developers) become more tolerant of touch, something like this could be a serious competitor.

for me personally: I want an actual linux tablet. Not android

For anyone under the age of fifteen, there's a moderate likelihood that touch devices -- in the form of mobile phones -- have been their primary computing devices literally their entire lives.

Someday soon there's going to be a generation of young programmers who are simply more at home on a touchscreen than a laptop. If the Linux world doesn't have devices and a usable UI for them, it might lose them altogether.

Everywhere: https://store.bq.com/gl/delivery-information/

Did you try? It looks to be available worldwide. The company is Spanish.

The first Surface Pro was released February 2013, so just over 3 years. That's a pretty strange claim for the Ubuntu folks to try and make.

Call it the "first open source convergent tablet" or "fist cheap convergent tablet" if it needs a first-something claim, but the "let's stick our heads in the sand and pretend nothing MS does exists" schtick doesn't make anybody look good.

I was a little confused about this but I think that this 16G is partly-used to boot the /root partition (i.e. the OS) and then the rest is swap space.

This makes it all a little more usable in my opinion, since there is only 2Gigs RAM onboard ..

Oh is there a Microsoft tablet available for 300 USD? I thought so. And there's nothing convergent about the Surface. Without a keyboard what can you really do with it?

I'm completely the opposite. I was always disappointed that Android can't run normal Linux apps.