Because I want one so freaking bad! Anyone know if it will run apps on apks? Which of course make be wonder if the same apks from android phone would work on android laptop.
OK, I don't quite understand, but you sound like you know what you're talking about. I'm always broke as a joke (and cursed with terrible luck) so the few times I've had computers, they have either shat out in fantastic ways or were stolen by #$&@%#&## tweakers... (Bad drug town, sadly...)There'll never be an android computer.
The Android operating system is tailored for embedded application, designed to turn a mobile device into a general purpose computer. Android is made to use minimal resources to accomplish the same sort of tasks that Windows does with unlimited CPU and memory.
If you have a full fledged computer with virtually limitless hardware, then you use Windows or Linux
That makes sense, though my logic says that would make a android computer that much more powerful comparatively lol but I doubt that's how it works..Haha yeah, I know the feel.
Think about it like this: a phone is just a miniaturized, cut down version of a desktop.
It has to be able to run on a very small amount of electricity/power while still performing enough math to be a computer. Think of a desktop like a friggin ferari and a phone as a Honda civic.
A Honda civic can go 110 mph, if you know how to MAKE it. Having a Ferrari just makes it easy.
The Android OS is designed to use as little of the computer's physical capacity, while still achieving the desired outcome. Like, you can do the same stuff on Android as you can with Windows, but Windows is more resource intensive, so it requires more from your machine
Search the forums for Android-x86.
Am I right or wrong?
Why would you run a proprietary version of Linux with a java sandbox and a phone UI, on a machine with the resources to run Red Hat and the X server?
Screen shot, not following you. Sorry.Another question for you guys... Why is my picture used on everyone that quotes something on here? Hopefully its just on my end..... Its kind of creeping out....
I would actually like to try to install android on my laptop... I have no idea on how to create programs on android. And correct me if I'm wrong but I would need to make a custom ROM to run on my laptop? I know my way around windows like I know my own hands, but android is not as familiar to me...
See everyone has my picture in the quotes :/
HTC Evo 3D lol. If you're outside the US, you might know it as the Sensation (but with more ram).EarlyMon --
What kind of phone did you have?
Did you need a mouse and keyboard to use X, or did the touchscreen work OK?
Omg I'm such a layman... I didn't understand a lot of that lol. But I want to learn the work you do with android! Step 1 would be to get my broke ass a Linux box lol I love your reasoning, EarlyMon, very much in line with my own =PWhy? Why explore all that Android can do?
Because OpenMoko died on the vine, Nokia's was onto a nice start until the Trolltech guys showed up with Qt and that went south, Elop assassinated the new Symbian before it could launch, Windows phone was good but stagnated, iOS sucks, and besides - the Android kernel merged back with the Linux main line at version 3, so it's not closed and the Dalvik is a sophisticated stack engine and not just a Java sandbox lol.
Where most Linux is really properly identified as GNU/Linux, Android as a compact, real-time Linux could be described in the same vein as Apache/Linux.
No idea why you think it's proprietary.
The other reasons are - because I can, because I like to make phone calls, and just because it is there.
The same sort of reasons why I run everything else.
Oh - and good point, among the Linux distributions I run daily, Redhat and CentOS are included along with Ubuntu. And Windows 7. And OS X.
As I mentioned, I have the resources to run Ubuntu and the X server on my phone - so I did.
Why try and enjoy Android on a pc?
Because it is there.
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Clearly, good Sir, your milkshake brings ALL the boys to the yard... >_>Another question for you guys... Why is my picture used on everyone that quotes something on here? Hopefully its just on my end..... Its kind of creeping out....
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