Amazing? sadly no…Ubuntu-powered BQ Aquaris M10 tablet

[Andrew W]

Wow thats only a Cortex-A7 processor. That’s the low power architecture equivalent of the cortex-A9 that the Galaxy s3 / note 2 had.

So a quad core A7… well it would be power efficient and that’s a fairly nice battery size… but the cpu speed… oh my…

I’m so glad I went for the cube i7 book.

That skylake core-m 6y30 processor… When I run ubuntu it’s smooth.

Ubuntu with gnome or whatever fat graphical equivalent…

I mean xubuntu or Lubuntu or something lighter… That would be manageable.

 

[BBaker]

Andrew W wrote:

Wow thats only a Cortex-A7 processor. That’s the low power architecture equivalent of the cortex-A9 that the Galaxy s3 / note 2 had. So a quad core A7… well it would be power efficient and that’s a fairly nice battery size… but the cpu speed… oh my… I’m so glad I went for the cube i7 book. That skylake core-m 6y30 processor… When I run ubuntu it’s smooth. Ubuntu with gnome or whatever fat graphical equivalent… I mean xubuntu or Lubuntu or something lighter… That would be manageable.

Is everything working on your Cube i7 using Ubuntu?… WiFi, Audio, touchscreen, suspend/hibernate/resume, battery?

[Andrew W]

Yeah It’s incredible… wifi/ bluetooth (albeit I didn’t pair anything) audio fine. Touchscreen fine

I forget the kernel version- there have been warnings issued about kernels before 4.5 not putting skylake based cpu into proper low power states.

The battery prtedictions seemed fine 4-5 hours.

Now I was only testing. This wasn’t a full day to day use.

There’s even an on screen keyboard available which is about as good as Windows 10 one.

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Look I’m impressed that Ubuntu worked this well out of the box.

A fresh Win 10 pro install is effectively unusable. – no wifi, no Blutooth, No touchscreen.

I’m procrastinating from inserting the drivers into the Windows image and trying again.

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It also has a sexy BIOS.

If you get one. Just look at it… Laptops has such crap BIOSes with so few options. This has so many options (and possibilities to brick) your device. Memory timing (don’t play with that) overclocking (without a heatsink mod that’s crazy but people do the mod).

and perhaps and most importantly the ability to boot to SD/USB

HOW CRAP is the Atom platform?

Seriously such crappy BIOSes. Such difficulty in getting linux working!

I think Intel slit their own throat really.

How many people would have bought a zenphone 2 551ML if they just had an open bios.

4GB ram in a phone – geeze you COULD install windows 10 on that.

 

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