[ludoo]

If I could find a 12" or 13" Android laptop with a nice screen, good keyboard, no fan, and decent specs I'd use it as my primary machine. Debian kit+console+a decent editor is all I need for work, and for play Android has more and better apps than Ubuntu or any other Linux distro.

It's about time manufecturers started producing them.

[georgemcbay]

I'd actually like one a bit bigger, like 14" or 15", with touchscreen, and which dual-boots standard Linux and Android, both as first-class citizens (you can usually hack Linux booting via chroots into Android devices, but I'd rather just have the dual-booting supported at the BIOS level with no goofy hacks).

I would buy the hell out of a system like this.

[derefr]

Isn't that (with the exception of "Android") what Chromebooks are?

Actually, I wonder how much effort it would take to get Android userland running on top of ChromeOS. Naively, you could just write a JVM-equivalent for Dalvik (providing the same runtime services to native code.) Or you could just apply a static transformation to the Dalvik executable to turn native syscalls into calls to PPAPI, and call the result an NaCl binary.

[oscargrouch]

Can be done, but a expensive project for sure..

I think the whole thing are pretty messed up..

We shouldnt be choosing between freedom to run whatever we want in our own machines against the convenience of a fat application layer and the apps that are more easilly found in iOS and Android..

We should have both worlds in only one platform.. thats what the industry are having a hard time to figure it out..

I hope when my project are launched, i can make my point more clearly by using a practical implementation to address some really bad scenarios for user and developer freedom. that are coming ahead

[dublinben]

Hasn't the Oyua shown that most Android apps are pretty terrible if not used on a touchscreen device? For the features you want, it's going to be comparably priced to a $1000 Surface Pro.

[recursive]

It's debatable whether it's shown that, but it doesn't give us much information about this device even if that's true. The statement that Android apps are terrible on non-touchscreens doesn't necessarily tell us anything about how good they are on touch-capable devices.

[Pxtl]

The big failures exist in the 3rd-party apps and the home-screen. With a custom home-screen and a secondary app-store full of key/mouse-friendly apps? You could make a comfy Android/Netbook experience.

[aray]

I think the Oyua has really shown also that games work well with a controller. Many android games are just trying to use the screen to emulate what we're used to (buttons, d-pad, analog sticks, etc)

[Touche]

This is a touchscreen device.

[light3]

Well there are similar tablets, I think the one below was around $250: http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/android-tablet-reviews/voyo-...

You would have to find a case + keyboard though.

[nailer]

> 'Debian kit+console+a decent editor is all I need for work'

Android only has a Linux kernel, there's no GNU userspace, much less the rest of Debian. Android doesn't have a lot of desktop-style programmers editors.