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Barcelona · 29/05/2012 02:06 PM

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-m...ld-laptop/

I love this! Before, the tablet that I wanted to save up for was the Toshiba Thrive, because it has a USB port, but if I can pull this off, I can also have SD card readers, Firewire, and whatever I want!

I think it'd be good, and worth it to get a cheapo, but fast laptop, like:
http://tinyurl.com/85rvrg4
http://tinyurl.com/ccdsmvw
http://tinyurl.com/7z8bp2f

Then I could boot windows, and android x86, when it gets updated to honeycomb (or just wait for jellybean)

A ton of people at my school like to show off their android tablets, I can't wait to see the amazement on their faces when I stroll in with my beast of an alternative; I want to get a quad-core, computer, so it can run most games, and, you know, casually browse the internets.

trademark91 · 29/05/2012 02:17 PM

I'd use linux on a tablet that you make yourself. You could set up a tiling window manager to automatically resize your windows when you turn it on its side, that would be awesome.

Barcelona · 29/05/2012 02:19 PM

(29/05/2012 02:17 PM)trademark91 Wrote: I'd use linux on a tablet that you make yourself. You could set up a tiling window manager to automatically resize your windows when you turn it on its side, that would be awesome.

What!? How!?

trademark91 · 29/05/2012 02:27 PM

well, tiling managers automatically portion windows to fit the screen without overlapping. If you were to run something like awesome WM, or even fluxbox with pytyle, all you'd have to do is make an icon on the screen for changing between landscape and portrait. When it goes to landscape set the res to something like 1366x768 with xrandr, and when you hit the icon, have it run xrandr 768x1366, and then the screen will be in portrait mode. you can also set screen rotation in a similar fashion.

Barcelona · 29/05/2012 02:34 PM

And I found a touchscreen add on that someone has hacked up some drivers for linux (http://www.magictouch.com/addon.html )
Which distro would you reccomend?

EDIT: If i ran Arch, could it use the Unity desktop environment? It has a very Tablet-esque look.

Jem · 29/05/2012 10:13 PM

I'd like to see the end result of this project

trademark91 · 29/05/2012 10:17 PM

If you used unity, it wouldnt be able to do any of the tiling stuff, but yes, you can compile unity on arch i do believe. Just hope you know how to track dependencies manually and compile software, otherwise you certainly won't be able to.

Barcelona · 30/05/2012 11:18 AM

Well, fudge...
If I use Awesome WM, or Fluxbox, could I still get a tablet-esque feel to it?
Also, would it be possible to actually rotate the screen 90 degrees, so it can be either tablet or portrait?

ZiNgA BuRgA · 01/06/2012 04:04 AM

Interesting idea.

Barcelona · 01/06/2012 10:37 AM

(29/05/2012 10:13 PM)Jem Wrote: I'd like to see the end result of this project

No, I'm never posting a mod to ep again, sorry.

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