Basically, I have a Target gift card. I was thinking of getting a tablet, but I have a Windows PC and Android phone already, and thought a cheap tablet could be acquired and flashed to the new Ubuntu tablet/phone OS and offer me something different with scopes and stuff, and give me a different experience and perhaps be used as an ereader or a backup or any number of things.
Here's a link to the tablets Target sells online and the prices:
http://www.target.com/c/tablets-ipad...c=1865090|null
Anything under 0 (That's the max budget, gift certificate was less) proven to be able to be flashed (Is that still the correct terminology?) to Ubuntu and get full touch functionality and everything? Working drivers for the touchscreen and the wifi and the USB ports and chargers are all basically musts. I only mention that because I used to run Ubuntu 8.04ish on a laptop back in, well, as you'd guess from the version number, probably 2008, and the wifi driver didn't really work right and would break on every update. One day I spent *7 hours* trying to fix it after an update and then just wiped the partition and that was the last time I installed Ubuntu on anything. :)
But I know time marches on and there have been improvements and I think what they have as a tablet OS looks pretty cool. I'm intrigued by the idea of scopes, etc..
If it's on the cheaper end like one of their tablets, all the better! Alternately, being able to have one with expandable storage that I could eventually stick a 128 gig microSD or SD card in and put all my music on would also be nice, though that probably can't be done in this price range.
Anyway, if there isn't a model that has solid driver support for Ubuntu at a good price, I probably won't do it. I have plenty of bills and expenses and household stuff I could get with the gift certificate and probably should get with the gift certificate, which is actually not actually a gift but money the store owed me after pulling some crap that I easily could have sued over that cost me the money they pushed back my way as a gift certificate. So, it's not exactly house money. I could easily sell it and get some cash also. I don't want something I'm going to have to fight to get drivers working on that'll break on every update or a tablet without a working touch screen driver or whatever. :) It's got to just work.
But if there is a great Ubuntu-capable tablet out there in the price range that people know will just work and provide a good experience that won't make me want to throw it against a wall, please let me know which one. :)
Here's a link to the tablets Target sells online and the prices:
http://www.target.com/c/tablets-ipad...c=1865090|null
Anything under 0 (That's the max budget, gift certificate was less) proven to be able to be flashed (Is that still the correct terminology?) to Ubuntu and get full touch functionality and everything? Working drivers for the touchscreen and the wifi and the USB ports and chargers are all basically musts. I only mention that because I used to run Ubuntu 8.04ish on a laptop back in, well, as you'd guess from the version number, probably 2008, and the wifi driver didn't really work right and would break on every update. One day I spent *7 hours* trying to fix it after an update and then just wiped the partition and that was the last time I installed Ubuntu on anything. :)
But I know time marches on and there have been improvements and I think what they have as a tablet OS looks pretty cool. I'm intrigued by the idea of scopes, etc..
If it's on the cheaper end like one of their tablets, all the better! Alternately, being able to have one with expandable storage that I could eventually stick a 128 gig microSD or SD card in and put all my music on would also be nice, though that probably can't be done in this price range.
Anyway, if there isn't a model that has solid driver support for Ubuntu at a good price, I probably won't do it. I have plenty of bills and expenses and household stuff I could get with the gift certificate and probably should get with the gift certificate, which is actually not actually a gift but money the store owed me after pulling some crap that I easily could have sued over that cost me the money they pushed back my way as a gift certificate. So, it's not exactly house money. I could easily sell it and get some cash also. I don't want something I'm going to have to fight to get drivers working on that'll break on every update or a tablet without a working touch screen driver or whatever. :) It's got to just work.
But if there is a great Ubuntu-capable tablet out there in the price range that people know will just work and provide a good experience that won't make me want to throw it against a wall, please let me know which one. :)
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