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Around 2016, my then-girlfriend wanted to buy me a tablet.
At the time I was heavily using my HP laptop running Elementary OS; a Ubuntu-based Linux distro.
I hadn't started making videos yet, but DS-Tech Media had already been conceived.
I had started using Linux in 2015, and it re-ignited my drive to create things. A passion that had started for me as a teenager when I got my first pirated copy of Adobe Photoshop. I did lots of graphic design for local music, and even my own band.
I also designed websites for my band, and Linux was the catalyst that got me back into all of these things.
But I felt no need for a tablet until I discovered the flagship of Android devices: The Google Pixel C.
It was a tablet/keyboard with tons of RAM and CPU power, but the price was outrageous. $150 for the magnetic wireless keyboard alone, and the tablet came in 32GB and 64GB storage options with NO micro-SD card expansion. The 64GB price was $599. So the price was effective $750.
Google Pixel C:
Jide Ultra Tablet:
Around the same time I discovered the Jide Ultra Tablet.
A similar tablet/hybrid convertible with a magnetic keyboard, SD-card slot, and 64GB internal storage.
All of that for $450, and it was on sale for $400.
However, there are also drawbacks.
The Pixel C's display is 4K with a unique 1:√2 (64:45) aspect ratio vs. the Jide's very standard 1080p 16:9.
The Pixel C used Nvidia's Tegra X1 system-on-chip with 3GB of higher quality RAM, and another 1GB dedicated to it's 256 CUDA core GPU design with 8 ARM cores for CPU.
vs. Jide's Nivida Tegra 4 T40s 4+1 ARM cores & the ULP GPU which was significantly weaker. All sharing 2GB of lower-spec RAM.
The Pixel C also uses USB-C, and Jide's product used micro-USB.
The Jide also has a dedicated magnetic charging slot, just like the one that attaches/powers the keyboard.
But what the Jide Ultra Tablet has that really made it stick out to me was Remix OS:
Jide's very own custom-Android OS designed for PC mult-tasking workflows.
Meaning it has a task-bar, start menu, system tray, and most importantly a window manager with minimize, maximize, and close buttons.
At that time Android didn't even have split-screen app windows, and you couldn't even have Youtube running in a tiny window.
In the video I go into my experience with the Jide Ultra Tablet, and how I used it for things I wouldn't have attempted on a typical Android device. Which included web-development, and running a LAMP stack on the tablet locally.
I also go into the history/timeline of Jide as a company, and do a "re-unboxing" of the Ultra Tablet.
Thanks for reading! -- Jay DS-Tech Media
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