The MIIX300 is a little beast. From the hardware point of view most of it is really nice – the display, the case, the keyboard etc. All good quality compared to the low price – I paid 239\u20ac new, incl. taxes. But the hardware has issues. One design issue seems to be in the keyboard stand. It is connected to the tab itself by a seven position connector mounted in the tilting mechinism which makes the device, when connected, to feel like a regular laptop computer. Nice! But the connector and its mechanics is not very sturdy, when opened and if you tilt it a little it looses the connection. The keyboard base unit contains not just the keyboard but also a touchpad and two USB-A host ports. So if you tilt the while thing the USB connection to those four USB devices can get lost! Which is pretty annyoing if your have e.g. a mass storage connected and mounted!<\/p>\n
Besides this I am struggeling getting a decent kernel setup. Following issues are still to be solved:<\/p>\n
This is a pretty miserable summary. My currenty plan is to get hold of some kernels for Android (5+) devices based on the same Intel Atom Z3735F.<\/p>\n
Currently I am not yet convinced that I really want to keep that device. It turns out to become much more work than I anticipated. I hoped for standard Intel based hardware, working almost out of the box but this turns out to become a major hacking quest for which I currently have no time, oh oh \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It seems that the hardware is pretty much the same as the hardware of the Lenovo MIIX3 tablet for which another good Linux summary page exist, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The MIIX300 is a little beast. From the hardware point of view most of it is really nice – the display, the case, the keyboard etc. All good quality compared to the low price – I paid 239\u20ac new, incl. taxes. But the hardware has issues. One design issue seems to be in the keyboard stand. It is connected to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-geek-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpin.de\/nf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}