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Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders

Posted by kdawson on from the thinking-outside-pandora's-box dept.

Croakyvoice writes "Finally, months after the official announcement, 3,000 lucky people can now pre-order Pandora, possibly the world's fastest handheld console. It boasts a processor capable of up to 900 MHZ, PowerVR 3D graphics, a large 800x480 LCD touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, dual SD card slots, TV out, dual analogue and digital controls, a clamshell DS Lite-style shape, and a 43-button mini keyboard. The console already boasts an amazing amount of ready-for-release software such as Ubuntu and many full-speed emulators for systems such as Snes, Amiga, Megadrive, and many more that are not publicly announced yet. The console is as powerful as the original Xbox and on a par with the Nintendo Wii. Those interested should visit OpenPandora.Org. For the full history of Pandora from inception until the present, check out the Pandora Homebrew Site."

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  1. Re:It is up to us nerds.... by 4D6963 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, because everybody who's into technology is a fat ugly smelly loserly git. That's easily explained by the fact that you have to sell your coolness to the devil to know how to use vi.

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  2. MHz myth yet again... by evilviper · · Score: 5, Funny

    It boasts a processor capable of up to 900 MHZ,

    I have a radio... It's capable of more than 10 GHz.

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  3. But why would I want a handheld syslog-viewer? by Shag · · Score: 3, Funny

    Joking, but it actually did take me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why on earth someone would want a handheld console of all things... I think we Unix geeks had dibs on that word before gamers. :)

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  4. Re:Yeah, but can it run apache? by ErroneousBee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its actually a Beowulf cluster of these things, powered by a bloke on a bike. This may be the first slashdotting of a human.

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  5. Good hardware, bad hardware by consonant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could not connect to the database: Too many connections

    If you can make the "world's fastest console", shouldn't you host on at least a "world's somewhat resilient server"?

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  6. Re:Atlantis Game Boy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do we really want to open this box?

  7. The box by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 3, Funny

    With a name like that I am just wondering whether I should be opening the box. ;)

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  8. Re:What part of this advertisement is news??? by Warhawke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Due to a shipping error, they sent me mine early. I opened the box, only to find that it just contained all the evils of mankind.