Planes come with USB ports. You need one of those new-fangled low power Windows devices that charges via USB! :)

All my devices, a NUC, a Mozilla Flame and a Kobo run some variant of Linux. There's a laptop running XP donated to a family member...

they're still the evil empire but competition is a good thing if it forces Google and Apple to innovate. And not using any Apple/Google OSes myself, I'm not convinced separate form factors and ecosystems for Chrome OS/Android or OS X/iOS are necessarily the way forward.

So if I did ever buy a tablet, it'd probably be one with an open bootloader capable of quad-booting Debian/Firefox OS/Android/Windows as the mood suited. A stylus and a keyboard could be handy.

It's both, as evidenced by retailers selling them sans keyboard, as a hidden optional extra adding to the checkout price.

Which MS are actively addressing with their app-translation services for Windows 10.

MS are at least listening to customers complaining about a viable app ecosystem. Whether that proves any more successful than Android emulation in BB 10, who knows.

Yeah a Core i5 is probably overkill for a tablet. I'd be keener to read benchmarks with the non-Pro surface 3 boasting a flagship Atom X7 SoC designed specifically for purpose.

'antiquated'? Well Windows 10 ain't out yet...

There's a niche for fanless low powered devices. From HTPC to those in studio apartments who want to run background tasks overnight while sleeping.

The latest Core M and 14nm Atoms delivering quad cores at 5W are what I'm hoping trickles down to a $150 NUC or Brix. Just add RAM and storage...

"Coal is good for humanity"

Inaction is a political issue.

Most only plan for the next election, which in my country is a mere 3 years.

Bloodsport continues to this day in the form of bullfighting.

Sorry im not from America. None of my colleagues have ever mentioned the organisation thus it carries no prestige or noteworthiness in my country.

Sorry but even after reading the f*ing article, ACM is still a non-obvious acronym for those who weren't aware of it. It's unclear why ordinary Cubans should give 2 shits about conformity.

After a decade of reading Slashdot, I'd never heard of ACM.

Many of those things are available on ARM via the popular Linux distro, Android.

Not through lack of tasting, I've eaten it in Quebec City and Ottawa.

Just that ruining chips by pouring on hot gravy and cheese curds ain't my thing.

Finally they found a use for poutine! :)

I don't think SpiderMonkey/Gecko are the villains here. Specs are in order to reach a price point.

Profit margins on a $25 device are zilch, so manufacturers need to cut corners by releasing products unsuited to a 2015 era OS. Try running iOS 8 or Android 5 on a handset with 128MB and a Cortex A5 CPU - that's a phone released in 2014 with specs equivalent to an iPhone 1 or a Nokia 97 from last decade.

By comparison on better hardware - Performance on their reference phone, the Flame, is decent. ZTE are releasing the Open-L this month with a quad core Snapdragon 210. Hardly iPhone 6 territory but still - The previous model has been retailing for about $US77 here in Australia. When my Flame breaks I'll willingly shell out the dough...