I understand the desire to hack your devices and do other things with them... even seeing if you can get linux to run on it.
But other than tinkering... what do you hope to get out of it? It wont do anything any better than a regular MP3 player. I'd rather drop 60 bucks on a NOMAD MP3 player and keep the GBA for games. Right tool for the right job.
Changing a video card? General Population? They can't even put in their own stick of RAM. Look, I've delt a lot more with the General Population than most geeks here. I was a Tech Supervisor for CompUSA for about 7 months. We saw every day repeats of the same old "User Error" jokes. Such as "my mouse pointer wont move any farther to the left because I'm at the edge of my mouse pad." I am convinced that the general computer user population is totally retarded. Install a printer on an XP machine? You just plug it in... And you guys think LINUX will ever be a general use type of OS? PLEASE! Until Linux is rolling out preset and configured for plug in and play type of use... with commercial software on the shelves... it will never be anything more than a corporate/uber-geek tool. I say this while owning 2 distros of Mandrake, and 2 of Red Hat. Easy installation isn't a question with Red Hat 8 or Mandrake from 8.1 on... it's easier than Windows XP was to install. But it's the "What do I do now?" part that causes people fits.
I was at work and this cat came in showing off his new PALM Tungsten. He had the whole movie on a bunch of SD cards. So I watched it.
It wasn't bad. I would have rather seen it on my iPaq's screen.
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I understand the desire to hack your devices and do other things with them... even seeing if you can get linux to run on it. But other than tinkering... what do you hope to get out of it? It wont do anything any better than a regular MP3 player. I'd rather drop 60 bucks on a NOMAD MP3 player and keep the GBA for games. Right tool for the right job.
Changing a video card? General Population?
They can't even put in their own stick of RAM. Look, I've delt a lot more with the General Population than most geeks here. I was a Tech Supervisor for CompUSA for about 7 months. We saw every day repeats of the same old "User Error" jokes. Such as "my mouse pointer wont move any farther to the left because I'm at the edge of my mouse pad."
I am convinced that the general computer user population is totally retarded.
Install a printer on an XP machine? You just plug it in... And you guys think LINUX will ever be a general use type of OS?
PLEASE!
Until Linux is rolling out preset and configured for plug in and play type of use... with commercial software on the shelves... it will never be anything more than a corporate/uber-geek tool.
I say this while owning 2 distros of Mandrake, and 2 of Red Hat. Easy installation isn't a question with Red Hat 8 or Mandrake from 8.1 on... it's easier than Windows XP was to install.
But it's the "What do I do now?" part that causes people fits.
I was at work and this cat came in showing off his new PALM Tungsten. He had the whole movie on a bunch of SD cards. So I watched it. It wasn't bad. I would have rather seen it on my iPaq's screen.