Linux on the GPD Pocket 7
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And the linked sale price is 433 € with shipping to Germany from a location inside the EU (so no import duty), that's a bit better than your quoted price.
(EDIT: adjusted price, didn't update properly)
I still use my stowaway bluetooth keyboard from my palm pilot days. It's still the best external keyboard for its size, AFAICT.
Other options could be something like https://uk.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_372953.html?wid=25 (much cheaper) with a bluetooth keyboard, I've seen people report success with Linux on certain ~7" tables (again much cheaper, just add bt keyboard and case).
If connectivity isn't an issue you don't even need Linux on the device directly: I've RDPd to Windows and SSHed to Linux from my phone before now. I've always got a machine on (or wakeable via WoL) somewhere that I can use. You can do the same from a tablet tethered to a phone. There are X servers for Android too, though I've not tried any of them yet (if I did it would only be to play, in reality if I need anything like that I'm breaking out the laptop or waiting until I have access to something else useful).
Other than that, it's been a pretty nice device for development. One of the nice features is that it's so small, I don't have to stow it during airplane take-off and landing, and can continue programming throughout. The keyboard requires some getting used to, though.
I saw similar behavior on a Windows 10 tablet recently. I suspect there's some issue between recent Windows 10 builds and the reference firmware for Cherry Trail.
(That said, I really look forward to the GPD Pocket II, if and when its available .. there are definite improvements that can be made, such as the keyboard layout..)
Also, I already have a perfectly working dell xps 13 with linux, so this would really be more of a luxury item.
And the grouped keys is a little hard to get used to.
If they licensed the tech for Psions fold out keyboard for the next version I would probably have to upgrade.
Over on /r/gpdpocket there is a thread discussing alternative layouts of the keyboard - so its quite possible that this will be community-optimised for the next release.
Linux runs great on it and as of 3 days ago the remaining issues (Wifi/Bluetooth) were resolved.
I love my GPD Pocket!
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Nvidia has Linux for Tegra, but not sure if the final hardware enablement was ever done for Pixel C.
Even my last Dell that came with Linux had a Windows key.
There are some companies that sell them, e.g. getdigital:
Proof: http://www.gpd.hk/news.asp?id=1519&selectclassid=002002
Don't take everything for granted. It's not because someone writes about something that they have researched the subject.
No. It's an unsupported code dump of patched kernel code: https://github.com/253647445/Pocket-Ubuntu-kernel
Needless to say, nobody is every going to merge or ever update this.
End of problem.
I'm actually in the market for a small device that runs Linux and is officially supported. I'm going to head back out on the road and I'm thinking that a smaller device that fits in a backpack would be nice and I generally avoid Windows.
The price isn't too bad. If I lose it, I won't much care. That's a definite bonus. So, this will be on my list. Thanks for correcting the article.
Edit: Just so I know, what criteria are you using for 'official?'
It's only an "official image" if it comes from Ubuntu's website or from a kernerl compiled from sources from kernel.org.
There are some ad-hoc patches made by an anonymous dude on the Internet.
Good luck ever running some other distribution or another kernel version.
(Needless to say, these patches will never be merged into mainline kernels and when the said dude gets bored they will, of course, be abandoned.)
The only annoying thing is editing some config as the screen is natively a portrait (it is a tablet part).
I've been badly burned by "netbooks" powered by Atom CPUs... nice battery life but forget opening Facebook or Youtube, and the ultra low screen resolution doesn't help either when web sites are designed for FullHD+ monitors.
You should have no issues, the Atom used in these is not your 2010 PIII based Atom, it's a modern part that can handle the modern Web.
> "and the ultra low screen resolution doesn't help either when web sites are designed for FullHD+ monitors."
If 1920x1200 is "ultra low screen resolution" then what do you consider high res? The GPD has higher resolution than my 27" 1080p display, and I have to turn up magnification on that just to be able to read comfortably on most sites.
Pentium 3? Ew. I thought the Atoms were descendants of the Core2 family.
> If 1920x1200 is "ultra low screen resolution" then what do you consider high res?
You're right - I had overlooked this in the specs and based my judgment on the "screenshot" a bit below...
Here's a benchmark comparison between the Atom used in the EeePC 901 (N270 @ 1.6Ghz), the GPD Pocket (x7-Z8750 @ 1.6Ghz), and a 1.1Ghz P3: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2968&cmp[]=13...
The P3 is slightly faster than the old Atom in spite of the lower clock, and the new one is over 2x as fast single threaded and over 7x as fast multithreaded.
Specifically, the GMA950 that didn't have hardware video decode for H.264, which was already the mainstream choice for any Internet video. Combined with the anemic in-order Bonnell core, it was dead on arrival for most uses involving any sort of video. Some netbooks even came with a separate Broadcom PCIe card whose only purpose was hardware video decode.
I don't know how far you sit from the screen, nor which websites you typically visit, but unless I miscalculated, your screen resolution is roughly 82 pixels per inch. I also don't know what OS you run, but at least on Windows, things render by default at 96 pixels per inch. (I've heard that some other systems have smaller text than windows though.) Thus on Windows you should be seeing things about 18% larger than "true" size. (That is, things take up more inches on screen than they would on paper.) This is actually too small: according to this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch, people read the screen from 30% farther than they read paper. So the DPI should be scaled to compensate. Then you need further fudge factors to account for small font sizes some websites use, and some other stuff I'm too lazy to think about now. But still 25 to 50 percent should do it, I think?
When I wear contact lenses instead of my glasses, I browse at normal magnification.
You'd want it either <=4.5" so it fits comfy in a normal person's pocket (5" phones are bearable but incredibly annoying), or >=10" to be able to actually see stuff on the screen (ever tried one of those horrible 6-8" tablets?). Heck, even most women's purses can accommodate a 13" device easily...
Yep and I loved my nexus 7 and Shield K1, so....
edit: not to mention that most Kindle are at that size too...