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Hello dear all.
I'm thinking about purchasing some device that is portable, better if

it has a touch screen.

I would love your opinion and maybe know about some devices I'm not

aware yet that are Linux-friendly or have standard components.
The possibilities are:
Netbook / Barebone / UMPC / Headless-Board devices:

* pros: portable, powerful, versatile, multipurpose, you can use

almost any repository and distro (x86/x86_64 arq.), multiple

connections, compatible HW out-of-the-box, UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs)

have touch screens

* cons: some don't have (touch)screen, some don't have HD, you need

peripherals (mouse, keyboard), poor HW compatibility (touch screen one

of the cases), ARM sometimes is not enough for audio
Tablet, Mobile:

* pros: GUI really touch-driven, don't need peripherals, multi-core

chips, some companies have Android tablets but they also publish

Debian/Linux images for the device you could tweak (Archos), HW

is/could be Linux compatible if it runs on Android, USB compliant HW

should run

* cons: limited power (ARM sometimes is not enough for audio), don't

have typical Linux-audio SW and repositories, scarce quality

audio-apps, proprietary connectors, you have to develop a mobile

version of your apps, latency is an important issue on Android
I guess our friends at Indamixx surely had to deal with something like

this at the time, and now there's even more choices with a flood of

portable touch devices everywhere.
Thanks all in advance.
P.D: Here are some examples to illustrate:
* Netbooks:

http://eeepc.asus.com/
* UMPC:

 - http://www.umpcportal.com/products/Viliv/X70%20EX/
* Headless-Board devices:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://pandaboard.org/

http://beagleboard.org/
* Tablet:

 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00422XOEG/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=...

 - Debian in Archos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGnkzAiuhUk&list=PL281A181403192C58&featu...
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Carlos sanchiavedraz

* Musix GNU+Linux

  http://www.musix.es

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