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Exclusive: Leaked Images Reveal Ubuntu Powered Tablet

AndiDecember 23, 2010

Merry Christmas Linux and Open source fans! A new Linux powered tablet is on it’s way!

Details and pictures after the jump.

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‌The specs aren’t yet complete but this 10 inch multi-touch tablet running Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 has an Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz CPU, 2 Gb RAM and a 32Gb SSD hard drive. The bugs are still being worked out but initial impressions are good and boot up time is almost instant!

ubuntu linux tablet spy picture

ubuntu linux tablet spy picture 1

ubuntu linux spy picture 2

We’ll bring you more news as the tablet develops, but if you’re interested in learning who’s helping with development there’s an Easter egg to be found in the pictures!

Merry Christmas!

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Andi

that’s a gift for Open Source user this year 😀
Guest
December 25, 2010
that’s a gift for Open Source user this year 😀
www
December 25, 2010
Caesarivs
December 25, 2010
What’s with the windows logo on the right of the device in the second picture?
Yogotiss
December 25, 2010
I find Linux on a tablet to be rather amusing and sexy. I hope to see more of this in the future as well as in other people’s homes.

tinnerdxp
December 25, 2010
Oh why oh why!!!! Not Atom people!… It doesn’t work! it’s too slow to do anything!
Guest
December 25, 2010
Oh why oh why!!!! Not Atom people!… It doesn’t work! it’s too slow to do anything!
Guest
December 25, 2010
caesarivs
December 25, 2010
What’s with the windows logo on the right of the device in the second picture?

Guest
December 25, 2010
I find Linux on a tablet to be rather amusing and sexy. I hope to see more of this in the future as well as in other people’s homes.
December 26, 2010
what does the M$ logo do on the button on the right ?
Khaled Khalil
December 28, 2010
what does the M$ logo do on the button on the right ?

Matti Kitunen
December 29, 2010
Mielenkiinnolla voi odottaa edullisia kehittyviä tablet koneita. Siihen ryhmään tämäkin tulee kuulumaan. Vuoden päästä tablet koneen voi saada ehkä jo sadalla eurolla.
Guest
December 29, 2010
Mielenkiinnolla voi odottaa edullisia kehittyviä tablet koneita. Siihen ryhmään tämäkin tulee kuulumaan. Vuoden päästä tablet koneen voi saada ehkä jo sadalla eurolla.

Barry
December 29, 2010
Ubuntu Linux is a good choice, much better than Android. However, if that screen showing the lack of an mp3 plugin is a clue, this tablet will crash ‘n burn for the mainstream user. While Linux purists may demand a pristine, open-source environment, the reality is that these third-party plugins are necessary for the tablet to work properly with the content most mainstream users will drop into it. Find a way to get QuickTime (or its equal) into this tablet and, given a competitive price (when compared to the iPad), it will succeed. However, deliver it to users in a pure, opens-source, friendly-to-geeks-only manner, and you’ve got yet another niche product that will go down in flames. Perhaps Mark Shuttleworth will grow a pair and give us a mini-Steve Jobs.

Guest
December 29, 2010
Ubuntu Linux is a good choice, much better than Android. However, if that screen showing the lack of an mp3 plugin is a clue, this tablet will crash ‘n burn for the mainstream user. While Linux purists may demand a pristine, open-source environment, the reality is that these third-party plugins are necessary for the tablet to work properly with the content most mainstream users will drop into it. Find a way to get QuickTime (or its equal) into this tablet and, given a competitive price (when compared to the iPad), it will succeed. However, deliver it to users in a pure, opens-source, friendly-to-geeks-only manner, and you’ve got yet another niche product that will go down in flames. Perhaps Mark Shuttleworth will grow a pair and give us a mini-Steve Jobs.

C. Smythe
January 2, 2011
as usual linux underwhelms it is still lame
on a desktop of anything else only the simplest devices with linux buried deep under propriety menus are useful, I feel the same way about iOS . . . the dumbing down of america where no one thinks for themselves . . . yah
Guest
January 2, 2011
as usual linux underwhelms it is still lame
on a desktop of anything else only the simplest devices with linux buried deep under propriety menus are useful, I feel the same way about iOS . . . the dumbing down of america where no one thinks for themselves . . . yah

BD
January 12, 2011
I was looking for a new netbook for work to install ubuntu on, now I think I am going to wait for this!! Brilliant!
Guest
January 12, 2011
I was looking for a new netbook for work to install ubuntu on, now I think I am going to wait for this!! Brilliant!
- Guest
  January 17, 2011

Guest
January 21, 2011
Another Ubuntu tablet has been spotted. This time with a 9.7 inch screen and iPad design!
http://www.gizchina.com/2011/01/21/ubuntu-tablet-appearance/
Check out our hands on video with the Ubuntu Linux Tablet here:
https://www.gizchina.com/2011/01/28/exclusive-ubuntu-tablet-hands-video/
Guest
January 29, 2011
Check out our hands on video with the Ubuntu Linux Tablet here:
http://www.gizchina.com/2011/01/28/exclusive-ubuntu-tablet-hands-video/
July 1, 2011
Well that was six months ago. But we’ve still not seen hide nor hair of it!
When is this tablet actually going to be available?