Ways in which android is better than linux
You're assuming that the Java to dalvik byte code translation takes place at run time in the Android OS. It makes more sense if translation takes place before hitting the OS entirely, that is the development system could translate the byte code. I don't know if that's the way it works, an Android app developer could tell us. And if that's the case you see that the run time model is layered like any other VM, not worse.
They are tougher than the Asus starhawk. Better casing. Better Keyboard. Definitely better left and right click pads. I was always taking my Asus eeepc 900 and 701SD apart that I even blogged about it.
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2010/08/lef ... c-900.html
Keyboard can take a liquid spill. They can be dropped without breaking the screen. Pretty
thick plastic case on these things. They were built for middle school classrooms in Texas.
My 1 touchscreen came in. It is thinner and not as Mac Truck Like as this one I am posting from. I don't think it is built as tough as this one. Just for example. The ram and
hard drive access panel is snap in with no screws.
It took my small case pocket knife blade to pop the cover. These older models have
phillip access screws instead. If I break the little tabs on the newer one. I will have to
figure out how to drill and tap new tie down points for the access cover with screws.
So far I have not broken anything though. I have been real happy with these as on their site they mention compatible operating systems , "Windows & Linux".
I think I will just sell the one other non touchscreen M&A I have with Android 5 when they release it at the i386 site. Keep this one because I have 2 batteries for it.
The 6500 MAH and 4500 MAH and both batteries are good batteries.
I am still going to sell the blackberry storm I have and the iview tablet though.
Wife pays for my new Iphone 5 so I have no need for either one.
AS you know. I have enough gear.
Edit: Forgot to mention. I have no external vga on these netbooks where I know the eeepc does have one. I used to run Hulu Desktop on my 52 inch Plasma TV using my 701SD till
it gave up the ghost and I found how well RCA supported my Big screen TV. Not!
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2010/08/lef ... c-900.html
Keyboard can take a liquid spill. They can be dropped without breaking the screen. Pretty
thick plastic case on these things. They were built for middle school classrooms in Texas.
My 1 touchscreen came in. It is thinner and not as Mac Truck Like as this one I am posting from. I don't think it is built as tough as this one. Just for example. The ram and
hard drive access panel is snap in with no screws.
It took my small case pocket knife blade to pop the cover. These older models have
phillip access screws instead. If I break the little tabs on the newer one. I will have to
figure out how to drill and tap new tie down points for the access cover with screws.
So far I have not broken anything though. I have been real happy with these as on their site they mention compatible operating systems , "Windows & Linux".
I think I will just sell the one other non touchscreen M&A I have with Android 5 when they release it at the i386 site. Keep this one because I have 2 batteries for it.
The 6500 MAH and 4500 MAH and both batteries are good batteries.
I am still going to sell the blackberry storm I have and the iview tablet though.
Wife pays for my new Iphone 5 so I have no need for either one.
AS you know. I have enough gear.
Edit: Forgot to mention. I have no external vga on these netbooks where I know the eeepc does have one. I used to run Hulu Desktop on my 52 inch Plasma TV using my 701SD till
it gave up the ghost and I found how well RCA supported my Big screen TV. Not!
Be careful with the VGA on the Eee. Mine had an annoying habit under XP -- I suspect it was one of those infuriating hardware/software low-level interactions but as usual I can't prove anything.
The issue in question is that unplugging a monitor from the port crashes the ACPI driver, with the resulting symptom that none of the keyboard hotkeys (bundled in with that driver, for reasons I'll never know!) stop working until you reboot. It doesn't matter whether there's a signal going to the external screen, or if the screen is on or off, and plugging it in goes swimmingly -- but if the netbook is powered up when the screen is unplugged from it, that driver goes for a vacation in the Caymans until you reboot. ASUS never fixed it in the driver.
I never did check to see if it caused problems under Linux... I always assumed it'd be a grand way to get a kernel panic... but I'd really rather not find out that I'm right.
If I had to guess as to why it happens...
Plugging and unplugging any cable induces a little bit of ESD. This is increased to a potentially damaging level when there's power going to the port. PS/2 ports, not being natively hotpluggable, are well known for this issue -- unplug a PS/2 keyboard from a running system more than a couple times, and you will damage the motherboard in question. They aren't meant for that, so the required protective components are not included in the circuit.
VGA is also not meant to be hotpluggable. It dates from an era when that concept did not exist, except as a "you can't do that!" sort of thing. (Think COMport vs USB.) So if ASUS had a cosmic brainfart type moment, and decided to shave a few pennies off by eg substituting a resettable polyfuse (the little green surface-mount thing that's found near USB ports, it's like a fuse except it can mend itself inside, given enough time) for proper ESD protective components... that right there would do it. As in, unplug the cable, the polyfuse trips, and the computer has a ministroke, at least until the next reboot.
The issue in question is that unplugging a monitor from the port crashes the ACPI driver, with the resulting symptom that none of the keyboard hotkeys (bundled in with that driver, for reasons I'll never know!) stop working until you reboot. It doesn't matter whether there's a signal going to the external screen, or if the screen is on or off, and plugging it in goes swimmingly -- but if the netbook is powered up when the screen is unplugged from it, that driver goes for a vacation in the Caymans until you reboot. ASUS never fixed it in the driver.
I never did check to see if it caused problems under Linux... I always assumed it'd be a grand way to get a kernel panic... but I'd really rather not find out that I'm right.
If I had to guess as to why it happens...
Plugging and unplugging any cable induces a little bit of ESD. This is increased to a potentially damaging level when there's power going to the port. PS/2 ports, not being natively hotpluggable, are well known for this issue -- unplug a PS/2 keyboard from a running system more than a couple times, and you will damage the motherboard in question. They aren't meant for that, so the required protective components are not included in the circuit.
VGA is also not meant to be hotpluggable. It dates from an era when that concept did not exist, except as a "you can't do that!" sort of thing. (Think COMport vs USB.) So if ASUS had a cosmic brainfart type moment, and decided to shave a few pennies off by eg substituting a resettable polyfuse (the little green surface-mount thing that's found near USB ports, it's like a fuse except it can mend itself inside, given enough time) for proper ESD protective components... that right there would do it. As in, unplug the cable, the polyfuse trips, and the computer has a ministroke, at least until the next reboot.
