Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order

Just ordered one. I had a chat to the BQ team in London recently. They&#x27;re selling CyanogenMod Android phones as well. The CEO was quite clear that flashing a new OS wasn&#x27;t going to void the warranty.<p>I didn&#x27;t get to play with their Ubuntu tablets, but their Android ones are well built, responsive, and have very clear screens.<p>This isn&#x27;t going to replace your totally tricked-out MacBook - but as a portable web-browser &#x2F; word processor &#x2F; coding machine, I have high hopes for it.

&quot;<i>A tablet when you want it, a PC when you need it</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;m being naive, but it seems to me that for a decade, the <i>laptop</i> market has had a ridiculous hole. There is a market for something which is not windows, at a sub $500-$600 price that is good. Tablet UI, desktop, whatever. Something that can run skype, whatsapp, tinder and the other network-effect apps that can replace their 3 year old home laptop and be an improvement.<p>How is it possible that all the mobile stuff from the last decade has not opened up real and substantial competition to Windows in that bracket.<p>Anyway, this looks easily worth €259 if think you may want one.

The linked page states it&#x27;s using Ubuntu 15.04 as OS, however 15.04 is marked as EOL-ed on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;Releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;Releases</a> Is there an easy OS upgrade path? I wonder why they did not go with an LTS release, 16.04 is just around the corner in April and would probably serve their release better.

I want to be really excited by this because this seems very cool but the mediatek processor and the 2 GB of RAM makes this a lot less interesting. Mediatek usually provides a closed off, low price, low performance chip which kind of clashes with what I want from an Ubuntu device.

I&#x27;ve seen a lot of Linux tablets, and so far they&#x27;ve always been a touchscreen added to an early 2000&#x27;s desktop-style interface: small touch targets, gestures don&#x27;t work in obvious places etc.<p>That said, it&#x27;s been a while so I could be out of date: is the Linux desktop UI and apps used by the Ubuntu tablet touch focused?<p>Edit: Linux as in the common usage of &#x27;Linux kernel, glibc, X&#x27;, not Android. Which you knew.

I&#x27;m happy to see an Ubuntu tablet but about &quot;A tablet when you want it, a PC when you need it.&quot;, who wants a PC with 2 GB of RAM?

Does anybody know if a &quot;normal&quot; Android BQ M10 can be converted to a fully Ubuntu tablet? When yes, how to install Ubuntu there?

Anyone have experience with BQ HW? Is it any good?<p>For the price (300eur) I&#x27;d actually be willing to try the HD 1920 x 1200 version, IF the HW and battery life turn out to be solid.

As per usual; I wonder what the battery life is like. That is really &#x2F; still the only thing I look for. If it&#x27;s good enough I would pre-order.

Seriously? 2 gigs of ram! I wonder how much Unity will be hogging when running in PC mode.

It&#x27;s exciting that Ubuntu offers phones and tablets. But what&#x27;s the gain to have a PC frontend while not having a real PC? Ubuntu should seriously consider to offer an additional Tablet with 4 GB RAM and real Linux, at least in a docker like vm.<p>Only such a device would be really interesting for Linux developers and sys admins. 2 GB are good for basic things (surfing, emails, office) but compilation, simulation, testing etc. would be problematic. If such things are not possible then a notebook remains the better choice.

Time to spend the Jolla Tablet refund money I suppose :)

All looks really interesting but only 16 GB internal memory? I mean if I could move my user directory in it&#x27;s entirety to the MicroSD I could see that working as 16 would be way more than enough for system, but that seems hackey. I feel like they could easily get that to 64 GB and add a few bucks to the price tag, I would buy one of these in a hot second if they did.

IT says it has external memory expansion. Does this mean that there&#x27;s a micro SD card slot anywhere? The only real issue I see is that (after the OS) I&#x27;d only have about 10 gig for applications and files. If I could put an sd card in there, no problem, otherwise it would hardly suffice as a PC.

interesting. Think Webstorm&#x2F;Intellij would run decently on this? I&#x27;ve been looking for a new tablet; and have been dreading getting an Ipad...

Looks like it&#x27;s ARM. I suppose that&#x27;s okay for many, but if you need programs like R, you&#x27;re out of luck. I&#x27;d immediately buy one if it had an Intel or AMD processor.

Why would I buy this over a laptop?

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Ask HN<p>Can I install something like this on my Windows 10 tablet, and could it run jupyter&#x2F;Python?

But... why?

how about that ubuntu phone

&gt;no dedicated full sized USB port<p>Why is the surface the only tablet to have a dedicated full sized USB port? It seems like one of the most important things to have in any tablet.

Wrong title, missing: in UK.

&gt; The world’s first convergent tablet<p>Sorry guys, M$FT had you beat to market by about... what, four years?<p>&gt; 16 GB internal memory<p>Come the fuck on, now. I don&#x27;t want to deal with the atrocious read&#x2F;write speeds of MicroSD. 16 GB internal memory hasn&#x27;t been impressive since sometime around 2007.<p>This looks promising but it&#x27;s definitely not for me. I hope someone uses it and likes it, but I think it still has a ways to go before it&#x27;s more than a novelty.

I even don&#x27;t hope it is free of closed-source drivers. Thus I won&#x27;t even look at buying it.

As a consumer, I find it completely uninteresting unless it can run Android apps. If Play Store is an impossibility, support alternative apps stores such as F-Droid or 9apps.