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r0kk3rz	2016-01-28 , 15:03
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Originally Posted by Copernicus

I don't think there's any need to try to mimic the Jolla Tablet; Jolla appeared to be aiming for showing off the beauty of Sailfish, and therefore went for a device with a maximized (retina) screen and minimal specs everywhere else. The Intel processor was probably chosen to get a subsidy from Intel itself.

I see no reason to avoid AMD processors, as the Hybris Adaptations list has plenty of those listed, including several tablets...

I assume you mean ARM not AMD...

No there isn't, I just thought that since we had already put money down for a Retina 8" Intel x86 tablet, that we might be more likely to find something we can agree on following that basic recipe.

I kinda liked the idea of the tablet being x86 personally, as there is a potential to run the mainline linux kernel on the device along with the mesa graphics drivers.

Also, ARM processors being what they are, you still have to start from scratch when porting to a new device, even if it shares the same SOC as an already ported device.

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