06-07-2011, 08:35 AM
So in related news, I decided to buy a Nook Color and root it yesterday. Turns out since B&N left the SD card slot in the boot order, that you don't even have to root the motherfucker, just build a boot image on an sd card and slap 'er in there. It's really that easy. There's not a "stable" Honeycomb (3.x) Nook Color build out there because Google hasn't released the source. No doubt as soon as that happens (in the form of Ice Cream Sammich) that they'll be an update there as well.
So until then, I'm perfectly happy with my 250 dollar (plus Free barnes and noble club membership, yay discounts!) Gingerbread (ok, CM7) 7" tablet. I think I might be able to squeeze a little more performance with a different SD card, as I'm only getting a 7mb/s write speed on it, but if I stick with this I might as well just install it on the "core" memory and write over the Barnes and Noble OS, since there is literally NO reason to use it.
It moves pretty fast. I can surf the web and play pandora at the same time, which is pretty much the whole of what I'd use a tablet for anyway. It doesn't have any cameras, and no GPS either, but I'm honestly trying to think of something that I would do with this that I can't actually do. With my CPU overclocked to 950MHz (courtesy of a "select max processor speed" option in this version of the kernel I'm using) I netted a 1471 score in Quadrant. Nothing to call CNN over, but certainly nothing to shake a stick at.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.
So until then, I'm perfectly happy with my 250 dollar (plus Free barnes and noble club membership, yay discounts!) Gingerbread (ok, CM7) 7" tablet. I think I might be able to squeeze a little more performance with a different SD card, as I'm only getting a 7mb/s write speed on it, but if I stick with this I might as well just install it on the "core" memory and write over the Barnes and Noble OS, since there is literally NO reason to use it.
It moves pretty fast. I can surf the web and play pandora at the same time, which is pretty much the whole of what I'd use a tablet for anyway. It doesn't have any cameras, and no GPS either, but I'm honestly trying to think of something that I would do with this that I can't actually do. With my CPU overclocked to 950MHz (courtesy of a "select max processor speed" option in this version of the kernel I'm using) I netted a 1471 score in Quadrant. Nothing to call CNN over, but certainly nothing to shake a stick at.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.
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