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Message 1420012 - Posted: 25 Sep 2013, 6:04:13 UTC

Christmas is coming and upon checking my list I see
I've been especially nice this year. Any thoughts on
how well the newly announced Kindle Fire HDX would be
suited to running S@H, if it can run it at all?

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-HDX-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B00BYHRY3O/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1380087359&sr=1-2&keywords=fire+hdx#kindle-compare

I know zip about Android and/or tablets. If the Kindle
is a no go, what would be good alternatives for a tablet
in the $600.00USD that would be usable for S@H plus
e-reader, movies, music, etc. I'm not interested in
Facebook, Twitter, or any other 'social' apps.
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Message 1420120 - Posted: 25 Sep 2013, 16:25:28 UTC - in response to Message 1420012.  

Christmas is coming and upon checking my list I see
I've been especially nice this year. Any thoughts on
how well the newly announced Kindle Fire HDX would be
suited to running S@H, if it can run it at all?

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-HDX-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B00BYHRY3O/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1380087359&sr=1-2&keywords=fire+hdx#kindle-compare

I know zip about Android and/or tablets. If the Kindle
is a no go, what would be good alternatives for a tablet
in the $600.00USD that would be usable for S@H plus
e-reader, movies, music, etc. I'm not interested in
Facebook, Twitter, or any other 'social' apps.


I have been able to run beta on my kindle and Amazon does have BOINC on their app list.

That said, I was having problems getting work allocated to my machine for some strange reason.

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Message 1420130 - Posted: 25 Sep 2013, 16:47:55 UTC - in response to Message 1420012.  

Christmas is coming and upon checking my list I see
I've been especially nice this year. Any thoughts on
how well the newly announced Kindle Fire HDX would be
suited to running S@H, if it can run it at all?

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-HDX-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B00BYHRY3O/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1380087359&sr=1-2&keywords=fire+hdx#kindle-compare

I know zip about Android and/or tablets. If the Kindle
is a no go, what would be good alternatives for a tablet
in the $600.00USD that would be usable for S@H plus
e-reader, movies, music, etc. I'm not interested in
Facebook, Twitter, or any other 'social' apps.

I looked at your link earlier, it does have an Arm 2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, as well as a forked Android OS, so it should should run Boinc no problem,
how it runs Setiathome Arm apps is still open to question, app development is still on going, at present I have great problems on my Snapdragon S4 equipped HTC One S.

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Message 1420142 - Posted: 25 Sep 2013, 17:43:54 UTC

My Kindle Fire HD 7 inch is running it pretty well now. Had a couple of problems at first though. Claggy is running his on both cores I'm only using one of my cores.


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Message 1420267 - Posted: 25 Sep 2013, 21:54:04 UTC - in response to Message 1420142.  

My Kindle Fire HD 7 inch is running it pretty well now. Had a couple of problems at first though. Claggy is running his on both cores I'm only using one of my cores.

My Nexus 7 has four cores, it is running on three of them, the HTC One S has two cores, it is only running on one of them, neither is running on both cores!

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Message 1420306 - Posted: 25 Sep 2013, 23:14:19 UTC

Thanks all. It looks like S@H will be doable.
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