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cast-fish:
Hello

love what they are doing with chips now.

http://armdevices.net/category/chip-provider/via/

That laptop above is 14 times cheaper than a MACBOOK AIR...but in some senses even cooler. THe battery last ages and the design is so nice. (99 USA dollars for that laptop).

They are pretty fast laptops runing android 4.2.2. jellybean. They have all the bells and whistles and can also run a full complete free LINUX operating system like Ubuntu which is nice.

They can also run "Chrome OS" by google.

Vince.

curaga:
Agreed, a MBA clone with those specs for ~100$ is a great deal. May just have to consider buying one ;)

Now if it only came with 2gb RAM and a usable keyboard, I dislike the US layout.

cast-fish:
ye Curaga

these are a great deal for variuos reasons.

The 1gb of ram is enough you know.  When you have a multi core cpu driving away in the
background with android.  The mali gpu is infact DUAL CORE according to the wondermedia
wiki page.

There are many reasons these laptops are good......price ofcourse...

it's ****18 ****** times cheaper than what we pay for a MacBook Air in the UK


also there will be an Ubuntu linux for it at some point...i imagine.  Windows Embedded 7 works on it and Chromium and CHrome OS...

but this chip is not bad. THe Mali gpu should be able to drive that screen no problem...since it's more powerful than the GPU inside ipad 2's and they have retina screens which is higher DPI..
(although granted...they are NOT 13.3 inches......although i have heard some rumours about new
ipads with retina having graphics problems playing some 3D games.....)

but yes......another point with these laptops is battery life is not bad at all....no moving parts...no heat....and such like HDMI out also. Bluetoothe also

But the major new thing is that STOCK android has become "multi windowed' now so you can run
several APPS on the desktop at the same time (inside personal resizable windows of their own)
SO the android desktop experience is very much like windows and OSX now.
Android is also a multi tasking OS....where-as iOS is not.

This means android can drive several apps at the same time....by multi tasking...(iOS cant really do this at all)

Android itself is also multi core....and uses multi core chips nicely.

So yes, you can get a reasonable desktop computing experience from this device in next to no time.

THe free APP for doing "multi windowed android" is called "PORTAL" in the store. You combine it with 2 other free apps called  "xhalofloatingWINDOW|" and the "xposedFRAMEWORK"........all of this takes about 2 minutes to set up and is free.

People don't realize what android is capable of now. IT's a direct replacement for the other big
players and it's so CHEAP

here is the laptop with free shipping i think

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remember also...there are oceans of tools to ramp up performance of android hardware.  I mean
the to say.  Also tonnes of other tools.  IT's really an excellent computing experience.

the irony is that this is quite a capable little computing device.....90 percent of Mac owners
would get 90 percent of their work done on this.....so very few MAC owners actually ever needed
a mac at all.


i mean here is just ONE example.....this laptop combined with the 4 dollar app called AUDIO EVOLUTION and the 4 dollar app for Professional USB connection to Professional USB sound cards.

this SET UP alone makes this laptop intoca seriuos music studio..... something that other people are paying 2000 dollars for on Mac....and more.

Vince.

(i mean there are hindreds of examples like above)

curaga:

--- Quote ---The 1gb of ram is enough you know.  When you have a multi core cpu driving away in the
background with android. 
--- End quote ---

Android? I would of course ditch Android as the first step and install a real Linux. 2GB of RAM is supported according to the chip specs, so it would just need to be installed by the OEM.

cast-fish:
ye true...it has space for more ram.

there is already Linux distros for some of the wondermedia SoC's....the wm8050 and some others
but i didn't find a distro for the wm8880

there is a bit of a dark area about this chip....according to the wikipedia page of wondermedia its got, among other things, a dual core mali 400 gpu.........but i have seen android tablets with this chip run benchmarking tools from the google play store and they report back a single core mali 400?........wierd...(Mali 400 MP2) means dual core....(MP4) means quad....(nothing there means SINGLE)


Vince.

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