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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Cheers for the info, i did look into raspberry, yeah its v cheap, saw the quake video, some amazing bit of kit for the size, my only gripe is the ram, nearer to a gig and i would definitely get one! The thing is if i was going to run Ubuntu or similar i would go 86/64. I wanted to go Honeycomb/ICS (when they release the damn source lol) As it is totally touch, the end result will be it being mounted into a coffee table so depth/size of the components isn't an issue. Honeycomb is able to run totally soft' buttons which will be ideal for a sealed unit like this.On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 08:57 +0100, Dava wrote:Hi there,Im looking at making an android powered slate, similar to microsoft surface but on a smaller scale (19-24") and was looking at pandaboard. They look like a viable solution, and have projects using android already built. Anyone had any dealings with these? Anything i should look out for? The only thing holding me back is the touch screen, and what will work with this board.Any input will be brilliant Regards DaveI'm holding out for a raspberry-pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org ) the specs (at present!) are as follows: BCM2708 ARM processor (approx 700MHz AFAICT) 128/256M Shared RAM (depending on Model) 10/100-Base Networking SD Card Slot 2 x USB ports 2 x GPIO Composite Video out Analog Audio out HDMI @ 720p They're not due for release until November this year, however they're only going to cost $35 (it's a UK org but all the prices are in dollars at the moment) so I'm probably going to get a couple. The good news is that instead of running Android (which IMHO is fine for a phone but doesn't really scale to anything larger) it will run "full" linux - Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora have all been tested and working - I don't see what Gentoo or Arch wouldn't work as long as you can compile them for ARM... :) There's a great video for them running Quake3 Arena on it and the graphics are v. quick - sustained framerate of between 20/26 FPS and that's mainly because they've got some kind of issue with the libraries for the GPU. Hope that's of some help, Matt
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