Not really into those kinds of projects. And it’ll probably be thicc af.
Is it made out of lead?
I derped on that post but yeah building a tablet is meh? Though it can be done.
And I have no clue what the damn shelving unit is made of but between me and my dad lifting it could barely get it up the stairs lol.
No clue what sorcery went into making a shelving unit that heavy but it is.
On the plus side though, its not moving anywhere anytime soon now that its set in my room which is nice.
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Also my phone hates me today with the autocorrect lol oh well
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Rpi, touchscreen, battery, case. Still…
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Or parts of other tablets to make a zombie but thats hit or miss at times lol.
Hmm. Kind of a cool thing that warthunder is doing for April fools
Also requires having tablets to pull the guts from.
I mean eBay is a thing… Can find parts for cheap lol.
But yep.
Time hunting down working parts
Time spent disassembling tablets
Time spent assembling working tablet
vs
Buying cheap working tablet new
If you have the parts lying around, go for it.
if not, need to weigh effort + price vs convenience + price.
Acer actually just recently announced a chrome OS based tablet. The chromebooks have been pretty successful and they don’t cost much. So we may see decent Chrome os tablets this year.
The Nexus 7 was the shit. For a tablet from 2013 (the 2nd version) the specs really hold up. Pretty standard resolution, 2gigs ram, 16/32gig rom (sadly no microsd slot), snapdragon s4 pro and even got Android 6.1.1.
Really pushed the specs race back then.
But Google overdid it a little after that. Same as with the Nexus and Pixel smartphones. Still good devices but just too expensive.
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The issue with the Nexus 7 though is that they used really crappy NAND flash and overtime the thing got soo slow it was barely usable. I have t he 2012 model and it is pretty much a paperweight now.
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I vaguely remember there being some issue. Would’ve been the perfect tablet without that. It even was sold out almost everywhere here (with then inflated prices due to scarcity).
-someone builds 60% keyboard
-puts into a massive honking wood case
Isn’t the point of 60% to save space… Lol
It kinda was the perfect tablet up until the point that the NAND started to fail. It was very fast and snappy and because of the Tegra graphics it could game pretty well too.
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It feels like they are trying to be a rebel
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Now tablets have other issues. Some of them feel like a huge step back and manufacturers prioritizing the wrong things (make it LOOK like good quality, but make it cheap and save money on parts wherever you can).
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Yep there’s also that fact that tablets aren’t as big of a thing now compared to what they were so there isn’t much innovation in that space because the and market is small unlike phones where it is very competitive.
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With phones getting bigger there doesn’t seem to be much interest in tablets, especially the smaller ones.
Who wants to buy a 7" tablet + phone when they can have a 6" phone?
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yeah true, for me anything bigger than 7" in a tablet was too much, Nexus 7 was perfect because it could fit in my pocket but 5-6" phones are good enough to satisfy that for most people.