| I really don't like Unity either. Love Lubuntu (or LXDE on
various distro
better than anything else).
Problem with Nexus 7 is that there is NO HDMI,
and Google's
new version of their Android OS does not "seem" to support
USB
Host at all. Why? Or, rather, why not?
So, absent the HDMI, still am not
interested. They really
should have had a drop into a dock station HDMI (for
TV or
modern monitors) with a power charger AND microphone/video
camera port
AND Extra USB HOST port(s) micro and full sized,
built into the docking
station.
I would love to see a Lubuntu version for Archos 80 G9, that
used
all ports as full hosting (Archos uses 3G port but does
not give users option
for use as full USB hosting port at
all). Can use a USB hub to then use
external USB keyboard
and mouse, but can't hook up USB data to that hub at all,
even if the hub is powered - yet, can hook up USB date to
the 3G port alone,
with no hub (very strange). However, the
resolution is 1024x768, and if we
used LINUX on it, might be
able to use Xrandr to increase the resolution. With
this
type of command that can be used on 1024x600 netbook screens
(but need to
fix mouse pointer that gets jailed into the old
resolution with a
patch):
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x576 --scale
1.25x1.25
or xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --scale 1.25x1.25
(depends on original resolution of your netbook)!
did
the trick to increase the native resolution of my
netbook running Ubuntu 10.10
from 1024x576 to 1280x720.
BUT, Linux team needs to fix xorg or
something to get
that patch as part of LINUX where the mouse does not end up
in a jail, needing a patch - as at one time it worked
without a patch, but
when Linux team upgraded video section,
they forgot to put the patch into the
stew, and even with
postings on the list, still have not paid attention to do
it
(again, would allow lower resolution devices to appear
to be higher
resolution, and would SAVE battery power using
this trick).
Here is an
idea... those Android sticks, what about having a
7 inch, or 10.1 inch, could
be Pixel Qi or what ever buyer
wants, that is JUST A SCREEN DEVICE (with AA
battery), that
then you have a slot that you dock
EITHER an ARM CPU stick
(android) or a xcore-X86++ stick
into, can use BOTH by just plugging them in
and can
switch... ALSO then be able to plug the same stick into a
full size
HDMI monitor OR a TV? What the
touch screen or not screen is full at the
option of the user
to match then to the use.
If, the screen is 1024x600
then use Xrandr to get to higher
resolution. NOTE that this scaling does not
seem to make
the screen images less viewable (or lower quality) for small
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