[IAEP] Which cheap 2016 Laptop should be our reference?

[Sam Parkinson]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:33 AM, Walter Bender 
<walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian Silva 
>> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>>> I wouldn't dismiss the Raspberry Pi 3 or similar single board 
>>> computer
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>> Around the time RPi hit the million unit mark I floated the idea of 
>> a Sugar-branded enclosure for it, distributed through the RPi 
>> partner network.
> 
> The problem at the time was that the Sugar experience on RPi was 
> pretty terrible. I suspect it is pretty decent on the newer models. 
> Do we know?

I think that the issue was mainly it was hard to install Sugar on the 
1st generation rpis.  The 1st gen was a special snowflake and it didn't 
run normal distros that could normally intall sugar.

I think the situation has changed?  Can't the rpi3 run mainline kernel?

There are actually a few funny tablets that run mainline kernel, like 
the 2013 nexus 7.  (not the 2012 nexus7, that's a tegra chip)  Maybe 
those are of interest to us.

Thanks,
Sam

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> -walter
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>> Sean.
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> Walter Bender
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