Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Dec 2011 22:48 UTC
Cheap Android tablets are all over the place, and generally not any good. They often have resistive touch screens instead of capacitive ones, are slow, or have no access to the Android Market. For Ice Cream Sandwich, MIPS Technologies is trotting out its existing Honeycomb tablet - which, you guessed it, uses a MIPS processor - licensed to Ainovo. For some reason, that makes this $99 tablet with capacitive screen kind of interesting.
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RE[2]: seems I was right
by unclefester on Tue 6th Dec 2011 03:28
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10" tablet with proper screen, 8/16Gb storage and a good ARM SoC still costs about $260 to manufacture.
Try $120. Tablets with this hardware already wholesale in China for well under $150.
A Tegra 3 quad core SoC currently costs less than $25.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Tegra-3-Costs-Between-15-25-1...
High end quad core tablets are expected to be <$300 within six months.
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Heh, my laptop was fscked last night, but then again it does that every 30 boots or so. It was a minor annoyance. I wonder if thats how Apple sees getting fscked too?
I think they are probably using a shiny but limited GUI frontend to the UNIX way :
date;cd ~;gunzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
Edited 2011-12-06 19:58 UTC
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The Apple fanbois were telling us recently that a $200 tablet was impossible let alone a $99 one.
Apple RIP. You are now officially fscked. It will probably take a year or two before you begin to really hurt. After that your decline will be terminal.