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Ubuntu for tablets announced

Ubuntu for tablets announced

Posted Feb 21, 2013 19:59 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Ubuntu for tablets announced by dowdle
Parent article: Ubuntu for tablets announced

I know that tablet and phone hardware these days is *capable* of being that smooth.

If the programmers locked the GUI into RAM, use dedicated UI update threads set to real-time, avoid doing any IO to the storage or the network, then the UI could easily be that smooth.

If they do those things, I don't know.


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Ubuntu for tablets announced

Posted Feb 22, 2013 14:04 UTC (Fri) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]

The hardware requirements are quite beefed up, requiring at least a Cortex A15 CPU. At the end of the year, the quad-core Cortex A15s will probably be the norm for tablets.

So, the smoothness and the nice user experience should be there.

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