Linx 10.1 inch Windows 8 Tablet - Any good?

meandu229 said:
Thought Id just say I was testing out droid4x which is an android emulator(think its basically a virtual box vm). Its pretty damm good easy to setup and most things seem to work. Tried dead trigger expecting a slideshow and it was just about playable and then installed plants vs zombies 2 (only game I want from android) and it works great no issues at all. Comes with play store too would recommend if there are a few games/apps you want from android it does take a few minutes to boot though.
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I wonder if Cartoon HD would work full screen with this.
 
I bought 4 of these tablets, wondering how much money I would get back if I decided to go through the faff of buying 4 cheap tablets to trade in?

I have 2 8's and I bought 2 10's for other people all in the same transaction from staples.

Just trying to work out if it is worthwhile :)

Cheers,

G
 
meandu229 said:
I would expect so, but getting out of full screen seems to involve opening task manager and then closing the emulator. For me at least I havent found a better way to do it.
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Might see if I can use Keysticks to map ALT + F4 or something along those lines to a combination of key presses on an xbox 360 control. Looks promising though.
 
Just ordered a Linx 10, tempted to sell my Nexus 10 on Ebay, £50 is too little I think.

Has anyone got any pictures or info on what it looks like inside or what motherboard it uses?

Just wondering how upgradeable it is...
 
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Just got a linx 10 and loving it so far. Find it brilliant that I can play Doom 3, HL2 and mass effect whilst sat at work :)

One thing though, when I connect it to my 1080p TV and try to play anything at a lower resolution i get black borders rather than the image scaling to the display size. I can't find anything in the very limited display options that will help. Or on google for that matter. Any one else had and sorted this issue?
 
nightmare99 said:
Does anybody know what the performance of the built in eMMC is? A bet a fast SD card would not be too far off.
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Usually on these windows tablets the eMMC averages about 109MB/s read and slightly slower write on the cheaper ones and 150MB/s (might be interface limited) on the more expensive models - which isn't blazingly fast compared to a desktop SSD but combined with the low access times, etc. makes for a fairly responsive tablet storage wise.

SD cards are another matter - due to some laziness on the developer's part :( a lot of these tablets can only work at 19MB/s (or stable even if other options exist) some have the options in the BIOS for higher speeds (not normally enabled by default) but on most of the cheaper variants the options aren't exposed to the end user even in the BIOS. If you get one which is setup for higher speeds or can get it working stable you can get 70MB/s with a decent card (SDCX10) never mind UHS-2+.

otester said:
Well technically you should be able to upgrade the storage if it isn't wielded to the board, being eMMC the worst case scenario should be soldering.
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From what I recall though I wasn't really paying attention to that aspect the eMMC is soldered to a board thats connected to the mainboard and the connections go through and are (probably) soldered on the other side so complicated to get to, if your up for some modding I believe there are a few places you can tap into a USB presentation on the board and can probably hack some higher speed storage in that way.

EDIT: Depends if you have Samsung or Hynix NAND in there - the Hynix chips are soldered right onto the main board and probably relatively easy to replace if you have experience of that.
 
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