If you pre-ordered a Ubuntu tablet, you’re going to be waiting just a little bit longer.
BQ, makers of the upcoming Ubuntu-powered BQ Aquaris M10, silently pushed back their delivery date from the second week of April (next week) to the second half of April (two to three weeks from now). No statement was sent to customers, OMG Ubuntu is reporting: the wording was simply silently edited on the website.
Pre-orders for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu edition started late last month. The tablet runs Canonical’s Ubuntu, a popular Linux distro that’s known to be user-friendly and widely supported. This tablet is noteworthy because of it’s versatility. Plug in a keyboard, mouse, and external display and you can use it as a desktop computer.
There are two versions of the tablet — the Aquaris M10 FHD Ubuntu Edition, which costs €299.90 (around $340) and the M10 HD, which costs €259.90 (around $295). The M10 FHD sports a 1080p display, and a 1.5GHz ARM processor. The cheaper M10 HD offers 1,280 x 800 pixels and a 1.3GHz ARM processor. Both models offer 2GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage, and an 8MP rear camera.
Those are not the most impressive specifications compared to the market, and notably BQ offers cheaper versions of both tablets running Android. Users who pre-ordered the device are already paying a premium to support their favorite OS, and potentially buy a tablet that also functions as a desktop computer.
The tablet does not come with a keyboard, mouse, or external display. Users need to provide their own display, plugged into the Micro HDMI port, and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. That brings the high price just a little bit higher, particularly if you were planning on just using your USB mouse and keyboard.
Still, it’s exciting to see Ubuntu come to the tablet, and the convergence feature is interesting. Here’s hoping everyone who pre-ordered gets their devices soon, and enjoys them.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.