One of the interesting things that you can encounter testing
Geekboksa – a peculiar hybrid media player and tiles
developer – is prepared for him by the manufacturer
alternative operating system offered on the product page at
the name Biz OS ROM. In fact, this is normal Android
Lollipop, modified by a Chinese company Rockchip so that
suitable for desktop applications. An attempt to reconcile with fire
water? It would seem that it is absurd that the expectations
terms of system for mobile devices are completely different from
expectations for the system on desktops. The Chinese, however, something
They try to do this. We checked how it came to them.
In November last year Obiegło Internet video showing
system operation Light Biz OS Rockchip. “Launcher
optimized productivity, multitasking, for
androidowych laptops, desktops and projectors for all
equipment used at work “- so advertise it
manufacturer. Unfortunately, only in February we have this interesting
project to see for yourself, after you have installed it
on komputerku Geekbox, using Rockchip RK3368 processor.
> Installing Light Biz OS-a single command by wire in USB
the installation was not difficult. With Github need to download the tool
for flashing firmware Geekboksa, from the manufacturer player
weighing approx. 300 MB archive system (unpackaged approx. 700 MB), then connect
komputerek to the PC with a USB cable and run it with pressed
Update button. Uploading the new system comes down to the issue
command sudo ./upgrade_tool uf update.img . If it all
androidowych smartphones change in the system was as easy … After
reboot see later on an attached display to Geekboksa
several messages to clean the system partition – and
all. The device restarts – and after a while we see the screen
Starter, which is quite normal desktop Android 5.1. Where
divisions all these bells and whistles?
Start screen on a good day: almost normal Android
You need them to just turn . In androidowych Settings |
Display there’s a switch called Multi Window. This
everything – for the switching is activated a new launcher,
operating in conjunction with a modified by Rockchip
display manager Android. The new desktop is not much different
from classic, just the bar at the bottom left corner of get a new
button (Start could it?), allows menu-list
installed applications, with built-in search engine. According to
what we can see when you type the first letters of phrases
it should also allow you to search on Google, but it’s not
It acts – we can use it only as a filter on the list
shown here the application.
start Menu: this metaphor interface will never get rid
the bottom bar except that there are two standard
a set of keys Android (and back home), and a button for
hide the toolbar (to restore it, drag the mouse from the bottom of
the screen up). And what about the list of applications? Well, instead
applications are displayed on the taskbar, as such. in
Windowsach or KDE.
Other changes do not notice: the upper bar is the grindstone with Tochka
the same as on the standard Android 5.x. To see something
Furthermore, you need to run an application. Rather than show
in full screen, as it usually is in the system of Google,
get a window with the application, displayed on the desktop, with three
buttons on the right side of their upper beam – minimization
to the taskbar, scaling and closing. Revelation, right?
Dashboard Light Biz OS: the new window manager looks cool, can not enough
Unfortunately not. Soon you will realize that this is
primitive solution than the first Macintosh and Amiga.
The windows themselves seamlessly scale is impossible, and the scale on
bar of the window all it does, it switches between three
preconfigured size of the window. There is also no tiling or
the possibility of summary boxes next to each other. Shown on video
Rockchip juxtaposed windows Office were
just so manually set. It looks cool and can … but
any real work for a man accustomed to real
desktops is almost impossible.
The other changes in addition to those failed in the e-Biz OS found.
You can only say that it runs slightly faster than
Android 5.1 preinstalled standard, both in terms
UI responsiveness and performance benchkarków. Geekbench 3
He drew for a single core 649 points, all cores
2313 points, more suitably about 14 and 95 points more than the
standard Android. Test results OpenGL practically nothing here not
different.
Geekbench 3 on Geekboksie of Light Biz OS-I (version 151208)
so what’s the deal with the Chinese invention? It looks like
underdeveloped prototype, but he Rockchip praises him boldly,
providing images of all of the production equipment with its czipami.
The value of practical small, maybe about the effect of “wow”
for marketing purposes – but maybe something more?
The answer may be chromebooks. In last year published
for US education report
dedicated to the use of these light komputerków in education,
particularly the issue of selecting an appropriate model. Compiled from
each have two models: Dell Chromebook 11 with Intel
Celeron N2840 and ASUS Chromebook Flip, Rockchip processor …
RK3288. Although hard to believe, in almost all tests
performance and energy efficiency chromebook with Chinese processor
got the better of intelowego competitor. so you can
to say that today has a Rockchip SoC systems that
They are quite good to check up on the desktop.
Chromebook is a problem, however. Their system is very
closed, there is no room for anything outside the “ecosystem”
Google – unless you know a little bit on Unix-like OS-es and
we can connect them with the normal Linux developer mode.
Besides web applications are what they are, their limitations can
give life a misery, even if we compare them with mobile applications
(Let alone desktop). If in the meantime could Rockchip
offer as a system of cheap laptops reworked Android
compatible with a million applications, but allows for convenient
use them in windowed mode – that many do not even
would like to take a look at Chrome OS.
Biz OS treat our opinion should be so as an experiment,
having to check the status of software compatibility androidowego
with reworked graphics server system. If his next
Versions will bring convenient scaling and tiling windows, better
system copy and paste standardized dialog boxes and files
more configurable, inexpensive laptops with such
the system could become a cool alternative to Chrome OS,
the more that those who forbid us to install on their browser
Chrome or Chromium?
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