On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 10:48 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:04 AM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 00:39 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:56 PM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
I have 8" and 10" ARM phablets with that resolution display and I'm sure there must be some youtube out there of similar devices.
what's the model / make and what's the internal processor?
Its at home now - It was one of these or a similar model http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Onda-V919-4G-Air-9-7-Inch-Android-4-4-Phablet...
ahh mediatek gpl-violating with 100% certainty *sigh*.
ok so it's technically doable. that's a quad-core 64-bit with an A53... yowser the peak power consumption is going to be enormous though. it'll be a MIPI or eDP display.
Most laptops last only 2 / 3 hours with gaming and get very hot. These phablets last more than that watching videos. I would plug in the adaptor while playing games or doing any serious work, and I can imagine a small fan inside to remove heat while playing games.
Still difficult to see what the problem is bringing out ARM laptops with high definition displays. May be the GPL violations by these China companies developing ARM CPUs have back fired on them again - they can't make the Linux distros for their machines because there is nothing in the way of non-NDA information about their chips and software out there and their own engineers are not enough to make it happen. For Android there is big infrastructure in the way of google so their engineers can copy (not innovate) to make tablets and phones. For any other distros to be livened up that require more than copying and more innovating such as those that leads to laptops, the only way to make money is to share hardware and software information without NDAs, and that they don't do - so they shoot themselves in the foot as a result. Android market is saturating, so they got workers they can't pay because they haven't invested in their future and livened up new distros to make new products. All predictable me thinks. They need to bring out more documentation and more non-bga footprint chips so that mere mortals can use all that technology.