Originally Posted by pythoneye2

Sadly the Rasberry Pi has nearly no powermanagement and draws nearly 0.5W even in idle.
For comparison N900 draws 0.035W in idle.
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Joshua Blomberg (@si_jblomberg) says:
April 21, 2016 at 11:15 am

Every time one of these ARM boards comes out, it only serves me as a reminder of why I stopped paying attention to the single board computer market. Yes, the assortment of RasPi’s are wunderkinder. Yes, people love their Odroids and Beaglebones and all those other boards built around oh-so-convenient ARM SoC’s. But, really, aside from the novelty of its size and how much proverbial punch you can get out of something that small, what’s the real advantage of using ANY ARM-powered Linux SBC?

I suppose there’s an argument to be made that the fact that you can get near-desktop functionality out of something the size of a wallet justifies its own existence, or even that the justification is that people buy it. Both of those statements are true; I don’t begrudge the free market its ability to release whatever products people think they can sell, barring obvious concerns such as product and user safety. However, that doesn’t mean the market shouldn’t be criticized for bandwagoning and a lack of giving people what they really, truly want: A small, low-power, expandable computer.

Personally, I’ll wait for Intel to pull their heads out of their asses and start releasing an Edison-like system that gives me all the wonders of a RasPi with a processor that actually allows me to run the sorts of programs I’d actually want to run on a tiny computer connected to m

Originally Posted by Kabouik

I'm currently using a tablet/laptop with a Wacom digitizer layer (Thinkpad Helix), and although it is indeed a great addition to capacitive screens, I have to say that the Linux support is not as good as it is for Windows. The corresponding driver was not compatible with Linux initially, if I remember correctly the first compatible driver came out with no pressure sensitivity. Even now, I experience lower accuracy and lower performance compared to Windows. The performance issue is a significant delay between the stylus and the actual drawing on the screen, which often beats the point of the stylus because you cannot use it naturally or draw smooth curves as accurately as you would want.

However, for what it's worth, this laptop never was a good choice for Linux, it seems, even though it's a good machine. I have experienced a lot of hardware issues that I didn't get in Windows. I have chosen to stay on Linux anyway, but I'm pretty much not using the tablet feature at all (almost never use the digitizer, never detach the screen because of bad touch support (no right click with long touch or double touch), suboptimal touchpad/trackpad experience, no good virtual keyboard appearing automatically when touching a text field when in tablet mode, screen rotation is not good, one hardware button is not recognized...). None of these issues exist if I boot in Windows but, well, I still don't want to boot in Windows.

I do not exclude that these Wacom issues are just bad compatibility between the digitizer model on my laptop and my Linux distribution (though I don't know any Linux distribution offering a perfect experience with the Thinkpad Helix). It might not be true for all Wacom digitizers and Linux distributions. But anyway, even on Windows, the Wacom stylus does not offer the level of accuracy I experience on the N900's resistive screen; it's actually quite far from it.

Originally Posted by marmistrz

Small player won't create hardware we want, since they have to target the average Joe (or they may go bankrupt after 2-3 devices)

Originally Posted by pichlo

Could you please expand on that argument? I do not quite follow. If they were to target the average Joe, they would put an average OS on it. By using a niche OS, they are already targeting a niche audience.

There are reasons why small players cannot make top-notch devices hardware wise, but catering for the average Joe is not one of them, IMO.