What laptop should I buy for use with android (theming mostly) but also as a daily thing?
I need a new laptop, and my current one is really bad. The crap I am using atm is really stopping me from being able to do any of my own modding and id like to theme.
Dont hurt me, but I like mac laptops. But from what I can tell they make android a challenge...?
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archie winnington-ingram said:
What laptop should I buy for use with android (theming mostly) but also as a daily thing?
I need a new laptop, and my current one is really bad. The crap I am using atm is really stopping me from being able to do any of my own modding and id like to theme.
Dont hurt me, but I like mac laptops. But from what I can tell they make android a challenge...?
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I have a HP Pavillion G6....
Its awesome
I would suggest my one
Arnav.G said:
I have a HP Pavillion G6....
Its awesome
I would suggest my one
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And can you do dev stuff on Windows8 or would I have to change the software?
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archie winnington-ingram said:
And can you do dev stuff on Windows8 or would I have to change the software?
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If you want to compile kernels or roms then you have to install ubuntu or any linux distro
Apps and stuff can be done on Windows
You might be better off getting a Mac and dual booting Mac and linux if money isn't an issue.
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I do alot of themeing,compiling and other things,i used to run microsoft 7 for years,then i switched to linux and ive never looked back,i bought a Toshiba Satellite with i7 processor and 4GB ram and this thing can handle any kind of strenuous project i might throw at it.
Diablo67 said:
I do alot of themeing,compiling and other things,i used to run microsoft 7 for years,then i switched to linux and ive never looked back,i bought a Toshiba Satellite with i7 processor and 4GB ram and this thing can handle any kind of strenuous project i might throw at it.
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Can you use it for every day too though.
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dombeef said:
You might be better off getting a Mac and dual booting Mac and linux if money isn't an issue.
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I am seriously considering this.
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archie winnington-ingram said:
Can you use it for every day too though.
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Yes. As I have the same OEM but different set up and it runs perfectly. And you will find more tools for Windows/linux then you will for a mac. Plus you can upgrade it later if you would like. This can't be done on a mac.
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zelendel said:
Yes. As I have the same OEM but different set up and it runs perfectly. And you will find more tools for Windows/linux then you will for a mac. Plus you can upgrade it later if you would like. This can't be done on a mac.
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You mean it can't be done on the Mac OS. Apple laptops can dual and triple boot many operating systems, including Windows and linux.
dombeef said:
You mean it can't be done on the Mac OS. Apple laptops can dual and triple boot many operating systems, including Windows and linux.
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What I meant is you can't upgrade the hardware on a mac like you can on a PC.
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zelendel said:
What I meant is you can't upgrade the hardware on a mac like you can on a PC.
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You can still upgrade the ram and hard drive on the latest Macbook Pro(non retina). Apple has made it difficult/impossible to switch out the ram and hard drives in other models, but so have other companies that make laptops.
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You can still upgrade the ram and hard drive on the latest Macbook Pro(non retina). Apple has made it difficult/impossible to switch out the ram and hard drives in other models, but so have other companies that make laptops.
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I can upgrade both ram and hard drive with only removing 3 screws. To be honest I have both a mac book pro and my windows PC and find myself reaching for my PC more then my MacBook.
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zelendel said:
I can upgrade both ram and hard drive with only removing 3 screws. To be honest I have both a mac book pro and my windows PC and find myself reaching for my PC more then my MacBook.
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I said most laptop companies have stopped the ability to switch out the ram and hard drive, not all of them. The macbook pro can do what your windows PC can do(in terms of upgrade ability, even though it takes 10 screws to access the ram + hard drive) and also run Mac OS X.
To be honest I have both a Mac Mini and a windows laptop, and find myself reaching for my Mac more than my windows laptop.
In the end it comes down to if you have the money to spend on a mac for only the OS. If your gonna use it for developing your gonna dual boot Linux either way
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You could buy a mac and dual boot linux and ubuntu but I reccommed that you buy a desktop version beaches I used to build source on my MacBook Pro 2013 but the heat would go up from the 30 degrees to about 55 degrees. Then I got a Mac Pro 12 Core and although it was much more expensive I get my builds done much faster and I get to add more fans to keep the temperature down.
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Has anyone got their hands on this?
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/goflex-satellite
I'm wondering how well it plays with our Evos. There is also an android app released for it.
Yep we sell em at best buy all the time and I was able to snag one with accomedations through my job. Its amazing how easy it works and you can stream right off your hard drive to your phone. Just turn it on, creates its own hotspot and you connect to it. Its great.
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PatrickHuey said:
Yep we sell em at best buy all the time and I was able to snag one with accomedations through my job. Its amazing how easy it works and you can stream right off your hard drive to your phone. Just turn it on, creates its own hotspot and you connect to it. Its great.
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that's great, the comments I've been reading on Amazon are generally negative, they all complain how the iOS app is nothing but a giant alphabetical list of all the music and other media, not divided into albums or artists etc.
How good is the Android app? I'm mainly interested in stock music and video apps on Evo, can they connect to this drive seamlessly and fluently? Does it appear like a network server to them?
well download the app and get a work around it. The interface isn't as clean as I'd like, but it gets the job done. You actually turn it on and then connect to it through your networks settings like your connecting to a network. With most things it'll download for a second to stream but then play right off the hard drive.
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Saw it the other day and realized that with real use, the battery is probably going to be toast in under 3 hours....
i just got one of these. the battery lasts pretty well so far. the best thing about it by miles though is that it's built from a tiny linux server running on an omap3 cpu.
you know what that means right?
i'll give you a clue.
user: root
pass: goflex
I had one of these for exactly one day. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. At the time I was using an Acer tablet that had a USB port, so I didnt really need it anyway.
But I will say that it worked horribly for me.
I've been wanting the air stash, uses SD cards and is pocketable(size of a flash drive)
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hefonthefjords said:
i just got one of these. the battery lasts pretty well so far. the best thing about it by miles though is that it's built from a tiny linux server running on an omap3 cpu.
you know what that means right?
i'll give you a clue.
user: root
pass: goflex
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I'm dumb. What does that mean for us exactly? Can we mod it and creat custom operating systems for it?
oohaylima said:
I'm dumb. What does that mean for us exactly? Can we mod it and creat custom operating systems for it?
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Pretty much if you get root access, you can modify it anyway you want
Hmmmm.......most excellent.
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zcink said:
Ok I'm clueless. what would you modify it to do beyond maybe a WiFi router?
What's with the guessing game?
Guess what we can do with this little baby?
I'm asking yeah what?
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This site can explain it better on why you want to do this
http://www.hackseagatesatellite.com/wordpress/welcome/
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Anyone think we will ever be able to natively run ubuntu as in basically use our phone as a computer with mhl working or is the only way to run it through emulation
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bradsinram said:
Anyone think we will ever be able to natively run ubuntu as in basically use our phone as a computer with mhl working or is the only way to run it through emulation
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Not quite sure how this fits into Themes and Apps but....
There's a KDE tablet coming out...could be the base for what you're talking about. And the attrix laptop dock basically does what you're talking about. So a combination of the two ideas....who knows.
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Anyone think we will ever be able to natively run ubuntu as in basically use our phone as a computer with mhl working or is the only way to run it through emulation
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if the evo has it, it could probably run. There would probably be no data though
can it possible to install win8 rt?
I very highly doubt it.
Yeah I doubt it as well. The only way to get rt is if it's a device that comes pre installed with it. In other words if you buy a brand new Windows 8 computer, you are not able to upgrade to rt.
Plus I think it would be illegal to have a it on Android since Windows is not open source.
By the way the thanks was for asking a insane question, check windows 8 requirements, hard drive size, ram, cpu , hardware
Requirement, basically you are trying to install a square peg into a round hole.
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That thanks was for the awesome answer lol
You can run windows 95/98/XP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459153
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By the way the thanks was for asking a insane question, check windows 8 requirements, hard drive size, ram, cpu , hardware
Requirement, basically you are trying to install a square peg into a round hole.
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xp runs perfectly "with the right tools " on sensation as well as on evo 3d ( same for windows 7)
So, is there anything new about win8 firmware for evo3d?
mugsat said:
So, is there anything new about win8 firmware for evo3d?
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It's not gonna happen.
flashallthetime said:
By the way the thanks was for asking a insane question, check windows 8 requirements, hard drive size, ram, cpu , hardware
Requirement, basically you are trying to install a square peg into a round hole.
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His question was about Win 8RT....not Win 8. Rt requires nothing the Evo doesn't have except for 5 hardware buttons and *maybe* memory. Probably a few others, video resolution... But It's not as dramatic as your "most insane" answer would leave one believing.
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Has anyone tried porting windows to the rezound?
Will anyone try porting Firefox os when it is available?
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99.9999999999% of PCs have x86 based processors.
99.9999999999% of phones have ARM based processors.
Windows is written for x86.
Even if there was an ARM version, Windows would run horribly on such low specs.
Also, Windows is completely proprietary, so another problem.
If you're referring to WP7, then yes that is for ARM, but again it's proprietary so we can't do anything with it, and compatible with only a few types of ARM chips.
Just like iOS.
As long as Firefox OS runs on ARMv7 CPUs and is completely open source, it will be possible to port it.
Whether anyone will actually bother to is another question.
It should be compatible since HTC has windows phones, ff os doesn't look like a winner, but html5 programming apps sounds sweet!
Just another random idea for xda devs lol.
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Even if we had it, it would be so slow running. Windows is notorious for burning unessary system resources.
I know, I despise being forced to have it installed just for gaming on my pc, just thought there may be some one interested in having it.
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fallen00sniper said:
It should be compatible since HTC has windows phones, ff os doesn't look like a winner, but html5 programming apps sounds sweet!
Just another random idea for xda devs lol.
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It will not be compatible because being ARM based is just about the only similarity between this phone and whatever HTC windows phone.
The radios are probably different.
The wifi is probably different.
The bluetooth is probably different.
Etc.
And it's completely proprietary, so we couldn't write our own hardware drivers.
As long as FF OS is completely open source, it is technically possible to port it, but it will be a lot of work.
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Is there an app to empty trash from android, like what boot manager has?
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fallen00sniper said:
Is there an app to empty trash from android, like what boot manager has?
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I don't think android has a "Trash Can".
When I delete a large file, my disk usage adjusts accordingly.
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I wonder it can work on the OG because I would love to try this.
I think it looks pretty cool I love using ubuntu on my pc
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/02/ubuntu-for-smartphones/
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It ooks really interesting and would be cool if someone ever got it working on our optimus gs
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I would love to use this, since most of the apps are native it should be fast as hell on are hardware compared to the galaxy nexus they where using.
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Very possible. I am sure that n4 will get it.
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Ubuntu for Android has been talked about for months.
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I will try it if possible. I seem to remember reading it not being ready till 2014.
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Snow_fox said:
I will try it if possible. I seem to remember reading it not being ready till 2014.
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Source and img is going to being released in a couple of weeks
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Go and get yourself a Nexus 7, it's one of Canonical's targeted development devices.
I use my phone for making calls and other mundane but critical daily functions, so I am leery about experimenting with my phone; however, it's a different story with my n7 tablet. I can flash any available ROM and do unspeakable things to it and I am able to maintain my level of service for daily living.
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Jhoopes517 said:
Ubuntu for Android has been talked about for months.
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There are two separate products.
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...buntu-for-phones-coming-soon-to-galaxy-nexus/
Ubuntu for Android which was announced about a year ago or so.
Ubuntu for Smartphones was announced yesterday and is a different product.
U4A = a dual boot type environment. when you are walking around it's an Android phone...when docked it's a full fledged Linux OS.
U4S = a full fledged Linux OS...no android at all.
i would love to see this in action. i expect the Carriers to be a big hurdle. AT&T and Verizon will not want to give up control over the handhelds on their network. but just like the ISP has no control over your device's in your home, i hope the consumers can eventually push hard enough that the Carriers go the same route. but to date AT&T still makes the manufacturers lock down their devices and if they could they would revert back to the days when rooting your phone was illegal.
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Go and get yourself a Nexus 7, it's one of Canonical's targeted development devices.
I use my phone for making calls and other mundane but critical daily functions, so I am leery about experimenting with my phone; however, it's a different story with my n7 tablet. I can flash any available ROM and do unspeakable things to it and I am able to maintain my level of service for daily living.
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I flash on my phone number tablet and every other device. I have no hesitations to experiment with anything.
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