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> The world’s first convergent tablet Sorry guys, M$FT had you beat to market by about... what, four years? > 16 GB internal memory Come the fuck on, now. I

by eckza 11y ago

> The world’s first convergent tablet Sorry guys, M$FT had you beat to market by about... what, four years? > 16 GB internal memory Come the fuck on, now. I don't want to deal with the atrocious read/write speeds of MicroSD. 16 GB internal memory hasn't been impressive since sometime around 2007. This looks promising but it's definitely not for me. I hope someone uses it and likes it, but I think it still has a ways to go before it's more than a novelty.

fit2rule 11y ago
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 ..
ekianjo 11y ago
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?
- wlesieutre 11y ago
  > Oh is there a Microsoft tablet available for 300 USD? I thought so. If they wanted to say "The first convergent tablet for 300 USD," then maybe they should have said that. > And there's nothing convergent about the Surface. Without a keyboard what can you really do with it? Netflix? Internet? Read emails? Write with its pretty fantastic handwriting recognition? What can the Aquaris M10 do without a keyboard that the Surface Pro can't? Is it somehow "more convergent"?
- quicklyfrozen 11y ago
  The surface isn't the only Windows tablet... You definitely could find a Venue Pro under $300 in the past couple years.
wlesieutre 11y ago
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.

by eckza 11y ago

fit2rule 11y ago

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 ..

ekianjo 11y ago

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?

wlesieutre 11y ago
> Oh is there a Microsoft tablet available for 300 USD? I thought so. If they wanted to say "The first convergent tablet for 300 USD," then maybe they should have said that. > And there's nothing convergent about the Surface. Without a keyboard what can you really do with it? Netflix? Internet? Read emails? Write with its pretty fantastic handwriting recognition? What can the Aquaris M10 do without a keyboard that the Surface Pro can't? Is it somehow "more convergent"?
quicklyfrozen 11y ago
The surface isn't the only Windows tablet... You definitely could find a Venue Pro under $300 in the past couple years.

wlesieutre 11y ago

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.