[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

[Yamaplos .]

The Apple IIe is off-patent - not that it seemed anybody cared in the
day, mine was an AMI PC, a perfect Taiwanese clone :-) Anyway, I am
always hoping for ICT4E hardware in the right price range, which IMHO
is the cost of a Happy Meal toy. Already calculators are there and
cheaper, and thus, who knows, maybe a computer-in-a-chip with Public
Domain basic technology using current manufacturing could make it.
Sorry, dreaming like this is a waste of time, I know.

2011/4/13, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com>:
> Before completely dismissing the mac ppc architecture, it is noteworthy that
> the platform has a bright retrograde future in tablets.
> http://blogger-off.com/apple-powerbook-g4-12-tablet/
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> PPC on Mac is also, unfortunately, a platform with no future, the last
>> machine having been manufactured in 2005. It's a tribute to Apple's
>> hardware quality that many are still around (I have G3s, G4s and G5s
>> still going strong, including one of the latter duals maxed out with 8
>> Gb of RAM and 6 Tb of onboard disk) but the most recent MacOS (10.6)
>> does not run on them, nor does any version of VirtualBox.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Caryl,
>> > Running Sugar in any machine is not free, we must invest many,many,
>> hours
>> > of work, and the complexity of the plataform is increased.
>> > We need select out targets, we don't have infinite resources.
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Gonzalo
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I haven't run Android on anything since I took my Android phone back to
>> >> Verizon after trying and not liking it for a few days a couple of years
>> ago.
>> >>  I am talking about running Sugar using whatever method can be devised.
>> The
>> >> easier the better!
>> >> I have run Strawberry and Blueberry in a Virtual Box on my MacBook, but
>> >> not without problems.  I haven't tried the VB on the PowerBook I gave
>> >> my
>> >> husband after replacing the defunct hard drive and getting a new
>> >> MacBook
>> (no
>> >> longer new ;-( . I have been able to run EToys to Go on both of them as
>> well
>> >> as an eeePC I bought so I could experiment with these things.  Etoys
>> project
>> >> files transfer seamlessly between all three of these machines.  My
>> >> dream
>> >> situation would be to have Sugar work the same way.
>> >> Caryl
>> >>
>> >> > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:23:02 -0400
>> >> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets
>> >> > From: cscott at laptop.org
>> >> > To: martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>> >> > CC: cbigenho at hotmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org;
>> >> > sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org; pbrobinson at gmail.com
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Martin Langhoff
>> >> > <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho <
>> cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>> >> > > wrote:
>> >> > >> PCs and Linux machines yes. But... there still lots of issues with
>> >> > >> Macs and
>> >> > >> so far it does not work with the older G4 Power PC Macs (EToys to
>> go
>> >> > >> does!).
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Does Android run on your G4 PPC Mac?? Or is this all random talk?
>> >> >
>> >> > This week's work (Sugar-on-Chrome) provides a much better story for
>> >> > desktop compatibility.
>> >> > --scott
>> >>
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