![]() ![]() ![]() You will be able to run some pretty CPU intensive tasks, like compiling code, and have no problem browsing the web and streaming music at the same time. The Bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition HD has a slightly slower MT8163 processor running at 1.3GHz. The tablet also comes with many pre-installed apps: The Ubuntu Store (the phone one, not the desktop one) is home to several hundred native apps, web-apps and Scopes. Web apps for popular services like Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and Instagram are also available and integrate directly into the OS to provide desktop notifications, badge icons, and more. Traditional Xorg-based software runs on the tablet in a confined, secure container using Xmir. Whether or not it works, however… What’s The Sound Quality Like? The tablet comes with a small number of these so-called legacy X11 apps pre-installed:įor other software, providing it is open-source, in the Ubuntu archives, and compatible with ARM, you will be able to install it. The front-facing speakers are another highlight. ![]() Unlike the tinny thin sound most tablets provide, the M10 has a pair of front-facing Dolby Atmos speakers. These deliver an immersive surround sound experience that’s rich and bodied. You may find yourself preferring to plug in a a pair of ear buds when you’re on the train. The 3.5mm headphone jack will see to that. You can use the M10 Ubuntu tablet like the much fabled Ubuntu Edge: as a desktop PC.Īs soon as you pair a keyboard and mouse to the tablet over bluetooth it ‘transforms’ from staged tablet mode into a regular windowed desktop. If the 10.1-inch screen is too small for your workflow just attach it to any monitor with a HDMI cable. Under Android this provides 11 hours of normal use, 9 hours of video playback, and 24 days of standby. Ubuntu should perform just as well (it does, after all, sit on top of a low-level Android stack). We have been told that running traditional desktop apps in the X11 container does currently drain the battery a fair bit, but that improvements in this area are on the way. The Ubuntu Tablet is very new, and many of its strengths and weaknesses will only surface when we get to have a proper hands-on experience with it. I often hear people decry the need for Ubuntu to pursue personal technology, adamant that it won’t be the ‘next big thing’ - but I don’t think it needs to be. It might never be on the scale of Apple, but who really cares? As long as value, innovation and utility are at the core there’s no reason why Ubuntu can’t find success. Of course it needs better apps, and of course the variety of hardware available needs to be broadened.īut for technologically savvy folks like you and I, Ubuntu convergence will find its way into our lives, both personally and professionally. ![]()
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