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I have no reason to doubt that information and I am happy to believe you especially if you have used one of those but I find it rather unexpected, if not downright shocking. All the pics I have seen are in landscape. There is a fixed keyboard attached permanently too the device. On hinges, not a slider, hence no way to turn the screen to portrait without a keyboard sticking awkwardly to the side. And finally, although I believe that Windows can be used in portrait, it would not be my first choice. "Natively portrait" is not what I would expect. |
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I haven't used one myself, just watched some (maybe a few more than "some") YouTube videos. The reason seems to be that the cheaply available screens used for this are actually made for tablets, which are mostly(?) portrait by design, just like their smaller phone siblings.
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I'll just leave this here.
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If they cannot have a working port-of-ubuntu for the device when it is shipping, what's the backup plan?
Are they going to ship the devices with windoze and ask for people to hack up the linux version by themselves? |
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I guess they'd adopt standard Indiegogo procedure of refunding half the backer's money next year and the other one whenever. ;)
Joking aside, I really see these options: - Delay all shipments (not likely, but possible and within the scope of what's promised from the start). - Break a promise and deliver the linux after the windows one. - Break a bigger promise and deliver with windows (isn't the OEM license free for this screen size?) while finishing the linux "firmware" as they call it to reinstall later. - Break a huge promise and just abandon all linux efforts, effectively also killing their credibility for further campaigns. Edit: But I hope we'll never find out. ;) |
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They've confirmed a slight delay today with Linux development in the comments – but if things go according to plan, it might just be a one week delay (depending on how one interprets "beginning of may") to "within the next two weeks":
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Aaand another info-bump:
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