Re: [PLUG] Cheap x86 Windows tablet?

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

> While that is cheap, as are Microcenter's equally cheap and equally crappy
> BayTrail-based tablets, you won't be running anything but WIndows on them
> for some time to come, at least not well.
>
> It's been a while since I looked at the HP Stream 7, but last I looked it
> was major tinkering needed for wifi and nonfunctional or buggy touchscreen,
> along with only booting Linux one time in three, which really reduces the
> usefulness of a tablet, IMO.

With all the progress that has been made in recent years, I may have 
made an overly-optimistic assumption, that I'd be able to get a current 
release of Mint/Ubuntu running on one of these Win 8 machines with 
little work.  I don't have hours to tinker to end up with something that 
*almost* works.

It sounds like I might be better off going with either a small laptop I 
*can* put linux on, or getting an ARM tablet with android.

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