I was waiting for over half a year for the next shield and am very disappointed it's a tablet. I liked the original shield because it allows to stream PC games throughout my house, so that I can play them on my couch or in bed. The other awesome thing is playing emulators on the go. With the tablet I can't do any of those properly, because the controller is not built in and I need to have a place to set up the tablet. So I can't play it on the train or anywhere in my house excepts my desk or my dining room table.
If you already have a tablet (or 2 in my case) and wanted this as a gaming device, then that's a bummer. It's too bad. Everything that targets hardcore gamers fails.
An example of regular glibc Linux running on Nvidia Jetson TK1 board (same chipset as in Shield) on fully open stack (nouveau + Wayland):<p><a href="http://www.codethink.co.uk/2014/06/12/no-secret-sauce-just-open-source" rel="nofollow">http://www.codethink.co.uk/2014/06/12/no-secret-sauce-just-o...</a><p>I wonder if there are open drivers for other components in Shield (WiFi, accelerometer, etc.) to enable running fully open stack on it. I'd really like to have something like Nemo or Plasma Active running on top of Wayland there.
I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android.<p>Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
If only it had 4-8GB RAM. I could actually see myself do stuff on it other than play games. It comes with a stylus and SD card slot! That's almost my whole checklist for a dream tablet:<p>1. stylus with good support<p>2. SD card slot<p>3. powerful hardware<p>4. lots of RAM<p>I can't understand why they put so little in.