Re: [PLUG] Linux friendly tablet?

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

Have TigerDirect/CompUSA/all their various and sundry affiliates
stopped being lying suckweasels and criminally cavalier with patron's
credit card data and personal information?

My father made the mistake of dealing with TD once and STILL
occasionally gets credit weirdness because of it.

When in doubt, go Newegg.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Eric H. Johnson <ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote:
> FYI,
>
> Tiger Direct is having an under $300 sale on laptops and tablets. There are
> several Android tablets available for under $300.
>
> See:
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/wem3166.asp?cm_re=Homepage-_-Spot%2002-_-em
> ail_wem3166
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
>
> As many of you know I'm more of a tool guy (e.g. swiss army knife) than
> gadget guy, but it seems like it might finally be time for a tablet.
>
> I refuse to have any iDevices in the house, so that basically leaves
> Android, AFAIK.  While in theory devices build on top of Linux should be
> Linux friendly, not everything is (see TomTom).
>
> So what is a good, inexpensive Linux friendly tablet?  Use cases as follows:
>
> * Stay-at-home Mom, for email, web surfing, simple apps, etc.  (WiFi only is
> fine, we're not doing any kind of data plan, if that even applies to
> tablets)
> * Kid friendly (6 & 8), preferably edutainment-type stuff
> * Angry Birds is apparently a requirement (hey, that teaches ballistics,
> right?)
> * Cut the rope, ditto
>
> Related, recommended apps?
>
> * Astronomy, ideally including satellite info
> * Video creator (hate to admit it, but iMovie is pretty awesome)
> * eBook reader (but won't work well in direct sun, right?)
> * Movie player
> * Netflix?  (Optional, we have the DVD-only plan now)
> * What else don't I know about?
>
> Thanks,
> JP
>
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