I bought one of these. Horrible low res screens. No auto screen dimming. Slow, older generation processors. Also most of them lie about their specs. 12 gb of RAM! Actually just 4 GB with 8 GB of swap enabled. I bought it because i figure it I can get my software that I'm developing running on it decently with those low specs out should run everywhere. But I wouldn't recommend this tablet to anyone.

To each his own. To me nothing sounds worse than auto-tuned -sounding country music.

None of the music is "real." No human talent. Here's a video from a few weeks ago where Rick Beato did just this very kind of thing as a bit of warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Very interesting. The software came up with a couple of different-sounding songs. Beato didn't do anything other than the initial prompt that generated the lyrics, and then he fed that into another AI that generated the music and the vocals.

LineageOS is my go to firmware but their support for tablets is limited to just 4 or 5 devices total and nothing current. So the third party firmware scene seems rather bleak for Android tablets.

I have one but sadly I cannot use it for Android app development unless I root it first. When I try to deploy my debug APK, the debugger needs access to some .so files, but the permissions Boox is using prevent their download which is annoying.

I've long wanted a color tablet with a screen that I can read in bright sunlight out doors. The Kaleido 3 e-ink screens are okay but definitely very dull and muted colors. Crazy that after all these decades we still don't have a decent reflective color screen.

I disagree. I'm glad this is here. I've done a lot of research and still don't know the answer to the original question. I welcome others' input on this. Sounds, though, that my initial finding is correct. The answer is, no. Android tablets all suck.

I have an 8" Fire for playing basic strategy games, looking at manuals, and light web browsing. It's good for that, and cheap. I side-loaded the Google store, which is much better than the Amazon store. I used to have a Nexus 7 that I loved, but I don't think they make Nexus tablets any more.

GPU are retargetable (to their original use as graphic processors), but I'm not sure the same is true of TPUs and the other more specialized varieties.

Don't expect AI to ever use only a small amount of compute. You can do a lot by pre-training, but there are limits.

OTOH, I'm rather sure that the current algorithms are a lot more wasteful than a later version will be. A factor of 100 wouldn't surprise me. Personally I think the way to handle it is with a raft of Small Language Models, each one tuned to a specific context, and a higher system that switches context as appropriate. (I've seen signs in the news that we're already headed that way.)

Moore's law may be over, but the 3D version of it is just getting started. The real problem is moving the heat away from the chip. I think we're in the early part of the ramp up of 3D chips.

N.B.: That it's actually do-able was proven decades ago, but only for custom sculpted 1-off chips in a lab setting. (I believe it was the Tennessee Valley Authority...but I'm more sure about the Tennessee than about the rest.)

AFAIKT, China is 4-5 years away from "breaking into this market", if they market is the upper end of the chips. Possibly even a bit longer. OTOH, for many purposes their chips are already good enough, so they'll break into it at the lower end as soon as they have enough chips for export. (Aren't they already doing that?)

I may have a "smart phone", but I refuse to set up internet connections on it.

Visual Studio and Eclipse are typically used for statically typed languages (C# and Java), so you get IDE magic like automatic refactors, renaming, jump to definition, etc. It's nice, and helps you program faster.

However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.

The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about programming more quickly/efficiently.

I'm now not even sure what your point is. The population decline was reported in multiple places, if you don't like Al Jazeera, then feel free to find a different source.

I assume strong AI is possible at any time, as soon as the algorithm is figured out.