Whoever said that was trying to compare something that shouldn't be compared.
The GPU should be able to handle Doom 3 (if id ever releases the source).
The CPU is an extremely powerful Cortex-A8, which can clock up to 900mhz on some systems, and is on par or superior to the Gamecube's CPU at 600.
The battery life is supposed to be 10 hours or more playing games, and 100 hours listening to music using a specially designed MP3 player (which turns off the RAM and CPU and runs on the DSP, using its 64kb of scratchpad memory).
It's not as badly unergonomic as it looks.
1. That's the developer case that's being shown. It's less streamlined and more boxy than the final. Also, it looks like a brick when it's shut.
2. The base half is also more comfortable to hold in the hands than the pictures show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djt2uLnJk6g
The Ubuntu was more of an educational exercise by one of the people who has a dev board (Notaz). The default distro (based on Ã...ngstrÃm) will be optimized for the Pandora.
The hardware designer, MWeston, has stated that by turning off the CPU and main RAM and screen and almost everything else, they'll be able to get 100 hours. The music will be played by the DSP, using the chip's built-in 64KB of scratch memory as RAM.
I think most of the GP2X devs are supporting the Pandora.
Why buy this thing? Sure, you'll save $140, but what's the point if you have an inferior console with a crappy game library?
Also, this thing's game controls consist of 2 d-pads, the last time I looked.
Correction: trunked (frequency hopping) public safety is in the 800MHZ band (usually).
Many fire departments, police departments and the like haven't bought or don't use (for whatever reason) trunking systems.
The sherrif's dispatch where I live is 47.9 MHZ.
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Whoever said that was trying to compare something that shouldn't be compared. The GPU should be able to handle Doom 3 (if id ever releases the source). The CPU is an extremely powerful Cortex-A8, which can clock up to 900mhz on some systems, and is on par or superior to the Gamecube's CPU at 600.
The battery life is supposed to be 10 hours or more playing games, and 100 hours listening to music using a specially designed MP3 player (which turns off the RAM and CPU and runs on the DSP, using its 64kb of scratchpad memory).
It's not as badly unergonomic as it looks. 1. That's the developer case that's being shown. It's less streamlined and more boxy than the final. Also, it looks like a brick when it's shut. 2. The base half is also more comfortable to hold in the hands than the pictures show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djt2uLnJk6g
The Ubuntu was more of an educational exercise by one of the people who has a dev board (Notaz). The default distro (based on Ã...ngstrÃm) will be optimized for the Pandora.
What's wrong with these scientists? Why work on making tsunamis invisible when we have enough trouble with the ordinary, visible ones already?
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And the accessory was called the Gameboy Player.
No, but the Super Xbox Entertainment System's been delayed again.
Time to get the EFF on their collective ass.
And here's the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board!
You made the magic go away! :
The first Pandora batch is 3000; it's made by an English company, not a South Korean one.
You do know that homebrew devs are making their own ROMs for old systems, right?
Another 128 MB would be incredibly expensive in that package.
that's "Volkswagen Rabbit Mk1".
Have fun playing Amiga, Commodore 64, and the like with your d-pad.
The hardware designer, MWeston, has stated that by turning off the CPU and main RAM and screen and almost everything else, they'll be able to get 100 hours. The music will be played by the DSP, using the chip's built-in 64KB of scratch memory as RAM.
And the Pandora is launching with a nice library of software and emulators. ^_^
I think most of the GP2X devs are supporting the Pandora. Why buy this thing? Sure, you'll save $140, but what's the point if you have an inferior console with a crappy game library? Also, this thing's game controls consist of 2 d-pads, the last time I looked.
Don't forget the 100 hours of battery they think it'll get playing music only.
Bah. Slashdot messed up my reply. BTW: My callsign is KI6EFA.
Correction: trunked (frequency hopping) public safety is in the 800MHZ band (usually). Many fire departments, police departments and the like haven't bought or don't use (for whatever reason) trunking systems. The sherrif's dispatch where I live is 47.9 MHZ.
DARPA was still ARPA back then.
Good luck hacking my laptop. It runs BeOS.
Is it also a room-pressure superconductor?