I’d would def. like to see more reviews on this to formulate a plan to purchase or not. I love linux, but dont want to spend money on something that has issue functioning.

I bought the 7″ Linux version through Indiegogo
that boots Linaro Linux (which is an ARM derivative
of Ubuntu) from internal flash.
It has been so far stunning journey.

There is nothing in the tablet
world to compare it with.

1. I’ve run it for hours compiling Gambas3
and its barely warm. The reason I find out is that
it clocks down when idle and ramps up speed when CPU
is busy. No wasting of power here then. Since
the entire OS and BIOS like functions are under the
control of Linux, everything about power management
is 100% beautiful.

2. So I get Gambas3 to compile by downloading
everything flawlessly through WiFi.
(A bit complicated – follow the instructions
at gambas web site. If it reports missing libraries,
then install those. If it reports problems with GLUT,
then remove lib-mesa2 and compile again.)
When it compiles you got now a tool more powerful
than Visual Basic because you got your normal visual IDE,
a fast execution environment, and it connect into the thousands
of open source programs to control it, feed data into them,
or take data from them for analysis.

3. Then I connected my Startech USB ethernet interface.
It just ran – no fuss – no mess.
So now I got WiFi and I got physical internet.

4. I installed Apache after but
didn’t realize how well it runs.
I loaded big html files with lots of big
images and lots of data. It seems it was quicker
to load from the Pengpod through local LAN than it was
to load it from a web server hosting company
with 70Mbit download link.
Pengpods are fast enough to be ARM microservers
on their own. I had ‘top’ running in a bash
terminal when I accessed
the apache. It hardly blinked!!

5. Unlike any competing tablets out there, the productivity
of Pengpod Desktop Linux tablets is just out of this world.
Particularly of if used with a real desktop PC and ssh.
Being able to use ssh and ssh -X to run applications on
your local desktop whilst actually running the application
on the tablet adds the third dimension to flat top
tablet computing!!
Something with no one can compete with.
Its a big mistake whoever talked themselves into
ignoring 1GHz Linux on ARM tablet, and ssh / ssh -X.

Now I got myself a full ssh server + headless server + tablet
that is also a web server!!

6. I can use a proper pdf reader and read datasheets
manuals with same ease as desktops now!!

7. I got proper desktop firefox browser and not these crippled
dopey mobile browsers and I can do everything as on
real desktop – such as for example logging into
remote security cameras to view and control it.

8. The spreadsheets and wordprocessors are real as
real is on the desktop. With ssh -X, the work can
continue when you get home on your real desktop.
This a lot better than of fumbling around with grubby fingers
on a 7″ tablet screen whe you don’t have to.

9. The UI has been improved over previous desktop Linux
implementation.
Pressing the volume control brings up a scaleable the touch
screen keyboard nicely.
Being resizable it is an immense help.
Touching and then holding and then dragging scroll bars work
intuitively. Again a big step up.

10. I tried barcode reader and it worked.
So now I can walk with this table, run a desktop Linux
stock taking program and use the barcode reader properly
as if I was carrying a desktop around with me.

11. Many other SB gadgets also seems to work and if you have
trouble with some device driver, just message the guys
and are ready to add some more drivers to the kernel.
A thing to watch out for is attempting to drive
too many devices through a small USB link. One or more
devices can drop out. But that happens with all products
of this type.

12. With gambas3 compiled and running and ssh working,
I set up a connection share with nautilus so I can
drag and drop files from desktop to Pengpod.
I can develop GUI applications on the desktop and drop
the compiled programs into tablet with drag and drop.
Click and run on the tablet and it works VERY FAST
for a developer environment to create GUI applications.
I made a simple application with big buttons like you would
see in a Kiosk computer and it just worked. I installed
espeak, and sure enough, when I press the buttons, I can
actually make the tablet talk back!!!

In all, no one ever had this kind of computing power
for $110 in such a small compact form factor.
If that isn’t stunning experience with a tablet,
then I don’t know what is!