Help me find a tablet PC to buy
Perchance, you may want to edit "Tablet" to "Tablet PC". Lots of folks are going to come in here suggesting iPads or Nexii that aren't going to do you a ton of good.
For what it's worth, the surface pro has an unlocked bootloader and standard Intel i5 guts, in the last week people have already gotten ubunu going on it.
Question 4: Does anyone have experience with emacs for Windows? Does it work on Windows 8? Does it do all the stuff that regular emacs does? (In other words,Free publications on the website girl likely without hair, could I throw emacs on the VivoTab and basically use it as my operating system?)
posted by eviemath at 3:42 PM on February 13
Tegra 3 runs Linux just fine, in the form of Android. There are efforts to get Ubuntu running on the Tegra 3 based Nexus 7, but I can't speak for other T3 based devices. I would generally say having desktop Linux proper running on a tablet qua tablet is probably a tall order, and at minimum will be a sluggish, kludgy experience,health care business consultation paperwork, but if all you need is any sort of Linux then Android AOSP should be flexible enough.
You may want to consider the Asus Transformer line if you want to go down that route.
posted by demons in the base at 3:46 PM on February 13
Have you looked at the X1 Carbon Thinkpad from Lenovo? It looks pretty nice.
Seems to work ok with posted by splatta at 4:39 PM on February 13
Not the Lenovo X230t,grandad disowns lgbt son and daughter in tragic n? Isn't that basically the newer version of what you used to have? This page says it works great with Linux.
posted by GuyZero at 5:44 PM on February 13
Just fyi, there are efforts to port TeX to Android. I'd hope either they or the umbuntu, debian, etc. should succeed reasonably within a couple years, probably not quite ready yet though. I suppose xfig might not get ported to Android, which causes problems.
posted by jeffburdges at 8:17 PM on February 13
There's also a web page about porting emacs to Android. It, and the TexLive for Android, seem to be focused on smartphones more than Android tablets or tablet pcs though; not what I'm looking for. It looks like what I want might be more in the "ultrabook" category.
posted by eviemath at 9:52 PM on February 13
What about Samsung ATIVs?
posted by eviemath at 7:43 AM on February 14
I have had good longterm success with Lenovo and Fujitsu convertibles, but it's hard to pick against Lenovo in this situation (they are built tougher with "semirugged" builds and are very easy to hack/work with). I've been carrying a Lenovo x201t to/from work every day for years, and the x61 I carried previously still runs just fine for someone else. If I were forced to find a replacement tomorrow, my list of possibles would be Surface (not a good choice for you due to the Linux issue), x230t, and Touch Carbon (if they had a convertible tablet in that build, I'd buy it right now).
It is worth a look at Fujitsu's line, though. People forget they exist, but they have more convertible tablet size/model options in their line than anyone. I have a loaded t901 at home for artwork that never leaves the house specifically because it was the only convertible I could find at the time with discrete graphics hardware.
posted by Pufferish at 8:18 AM on February 14
I decided to request a Lenovo ThinkPad Helix if my work will be flexible with the timing (the Helix is not scheduled to ship until late March or maybe April), and a Samsung Slate Series 7 otherwise.
