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Pretty sure Walmart sold RCA brand Android tablets for $50.

• DesiLurker 6y ago
  I wonder if the performance of those tablets would improve if android was removed and run pine linux instead. that said size of the screen is actually a big factor in price, also you need more powerful processor to push pixels on that screen and bigger battery for power draw. all those costs add up. plus they maybe following razer blade model.
  • AnotherGoodName 6y ago
    You'd probably end up with the opposite (Android will run faster). Source: I own an ODroid3 which can have Linux or Android installed. Android is a lot faster due to better GPU support.
    • zozbot234 6y ago
      That "better" GPU support often relies on proprietary drivers, though. Which means you're stuck with a crappy downstream kernel until the graphics support gets reverse-engineered and pushed to the mainline kernel.
• SahAssar 6y ago
  In common parlance "Linux (Phone|Tablet)" does not include android because the userspace is usually very different than what most people running linux think as linux.
  • ndesaulniers 6y ago
    Mmm...no true Scotsman.
    • wiml 6y ago
      I propose we refer to this as the "no true Stallman" argument.
    • SahAssar 6y ago
      Android is more a case of a martian scotsman if we keep to that fallacy/analogy.
  • the-dude 6y ago
    GNU/Linux, please.
    • SahAssar 6y ago
      Do you disagree or are you just memeing?
      • the-dude 6y ago
        Neither, it just seemed appropriate. Android/Linux vs GNU/Linux.