iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet?

Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by primitur on Saturday January 05, 2013 @11:25AM (#5013028)

Yes, I built a user-upgradable ultra-notebook out of an MK808 and the (strangely) discontinued Lapdock, for ~$150. Had to make a cable, though..

The MK808 is a TV device! But its also an Ubuntu workstation. It runs Android and Ubuntu.

I plug it into the Lapdock: oila, user-upgradable laptop. I plug it into the TV: oila, I can play games and movies and so on. Time to do a backup - plug it into a USB hub and the home server images the disk. Time to get a new one? Put the old one in a drawer as a backup, buy something else that fits in the Lapdock for ~$80.

I write software, and right now I'm working exclusively in MOAI, so building the MOAI host in Ubuntu on the MK808 was a matter of an hour of work, and beyond that - I have a full-blown Ubuntu workstation to work with. When I want to play, switch to Android and off we go ..

It is truly fabulous!

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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by msh on Saturday January 05, 2013 @01:32PM (#5013485)

Sounds interesting. What is the speed of that thing, can it hand JS heavy webapps in a desktop browser properly?

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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by primitur on Saturday January 05, 2013 @03:00PM (#5013819)

1.g5hz Quad-Core, 2gigs of RAM. Its not enough RAM .. if this catches on, I hope that mfr's will allow us to deck these things out with 16Gigs .. that'd be amazing.

http://www.cloudsto.com/new-mk802iiis.html

^^ nice, and cheap!

Also really nice:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872297630/gamestick-the-...

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