I'm amazed house some people can play HalfLife1 for long because playing that for more than two hours makes me want to physically purge. Same with Descent. But it's only with particular games with specific graphics. I don't have that problems with newer games where the graphic is more consistent.
I think it's a bad idea if you have strain your eyes. And staring directly at the computer screen for long the eyes don't get to exercise actaully because it's stairing straight without moving in eight directions. I always make sure I have good environment lighting, lower the monitor brightness, and do eyes exercise once a while. Then I can play for a long times without eyes sores.
FPS isn't the game for this purpose. Rallying game is also a good eyes exercise especially if you're a good driver and the corners coming up real quick.
Khyber, I agree with you, but calm down a bit.
Apple are smart because of that, it is costing them less to produce their computer, but that doesn't mean they won't charge high prices for their computers.
"I find it hard to imagine you can come up with twice as many features on your HP when compared to a similar Mac."
I always look at PC to have more features than Mac because they are so much more third party hardwares developed for it at a lower cost, and you can buy them from the money saved from not buying a Mac.
Personally I don't few much affected from this news since I don't use a Mac. But if these Mac computers becomes available definitely recommend them to family and relative because OSX would serve their purpose and I don't have to fix their computer so often.
Damn if everyone have a life goal of that standard I would have much better self esteem. I am sure there will be development of n64 emulator for this thing, but probably not right away since it's difficult to emulate.
BTW, this link is where future developed softwares for the Pandora can be downloaded: http://archive.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi
It's offline right now, due to server overload, but should be backup sometime. There isn't anyright now until people begins to receive the device and more softwares can be developed, so I suggest you wait a bit until perhap the second batch in 2009. There are many many emulators for the GP32X devices and many of those are probably going to be ported to the Pandora.
Aside from extra battery you can buy, there is no need to design another battery pack since the device can charges via both power jack and usb. Any usb connectors is going to be using 5volts so just buy a usb charger or you can build your own battery pack from radioshack parts. Also you should use long life Nimh batteries such as Rayovac Hybrid and Sanyo Eneloop, they have a much longer life span than conventional rechargables that may have large battery life, but looses it's zero point in a very short peroid of time.
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Typo, I meant to say "FPS aren't the only type of game for this eye-hand coordination training."
I'm amazed house some people can play HalfLife1 for long because playing that for more than two hours makes me want to physically purge. Same with Descent. But it's only with particular games with specific graphics. I don't have that problems with newer games where the graphic is more consistent. I think it's a bad idea if you have strain your eyes. And staring directly at the computer screen for long the eyes don't get to exercise actaully because it's stairing straight without moving in eight directions. I always make sure I have good environment lighting, lower the monitor brightness, and do eyes exercise once a while. Then I can play for a long times without eyes sores. FPS isn't the game for this purpose. Rallying game is also a good eyes exercise especially if you're a good driver and the corners coming up real quick.
Khyber, I agree with you, but calm down a bit. Apple are smart because of that, it is costing them less to produce their computer, but that doesn't mean they won't charge high prices for their computers. "I find it hard to imagine you can come up with twice as many features on your HP when compared to a similar Mac." I always look at PC to have more features than Mac because they are so much more third party hardwares developed for it at a lower cost, and you can buy them from the money saved from not buying a Mac. Personally I don't few much affected from this news since I don't use a Mac. But if these Mac computers becomes available definitely recommend them to family and relative because OSX would serve their purpose and I don't have to fix their computer so often.
Damn if everyone have a life goal of that standard I would have much better self esteem. I am sure there will be development of n64 emulator for this thing, but probably not right away since it's difficult to emulate. BTW, this link is where future developed softwares for the Pandora can be downloaded: http://archive.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi It's offline right now, due to server overload, but should be backup sometime. There isn't anyright now until people begins to receive the device and more softwares can be developed, so I suggest you wait a bit until perhap the second batch in 2009. There are many many emulators for the GP32X devices and many of those are probably going to be ported to the Pandora.
Aside from extra battery you can buy, there is no need to design another battery pack since the device can charges via both power jack and usb. Any usb connectors is going to be using 5volts so just buy a usb charger or you can build your own battery pack from radioshack parts. Also you should use long life Nimh batteries such as Rayovac Hybrid and Sanyo Eneloop, they have a much longer life span than conventional rechargables that may have large battery life, but looses it's zero point in a very short peroid of time.