For the development cost, you could just wait till September and get the new
Archos tablet<http://www.archos.com/products/gen9/index.html?country=us&lang=en>
that
starts at $270. It looks like it should be the fastest available tablet.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jimen Ching <jimen.ch...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > If you do not agree a VirtualBox solution is a more convenient
> > and efficient solution, then I don't think there's anything I can say to
> > convince you otherwise.
>
> If it would work, it might be. However, I doubt that it will work,
> since it does not solve the graphics acceleration problem. The mere
> fact that VirtualBox might expose hardware graphics acceleration
> capabilities does not mean that Honeycomb will be able to exploit them
> without significant work. I would expect that performance of a
> Honeycomb VirtualBox to perhaps be incrementally better than a
> Honeycomb qemu. Or, to put it another way, I would expect the ratio of
> pain between 2.3 and 3.0 to be roughly the same on qemu and
> VirtualBox. Furthermore, I recall suggesting this very solution to Xav
> at Google I|O and being told that it did not help.
>
> There is also the minor issue that VirtualBox is owned by Oracle. :-)
>
> Personally, I wish that the Honeycomb source code had been released,
> specifically so that the community could work on this sort of thing
> and see if we can come up with something.
>
> > Are you speaking for Google?
>
> Nope.
>
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