I am 29 years old and am admittedly a Nintendo fanboy. Almost all of my friends are not Nintendo fanboys at all, quite the opposite actually. Six of them went to E3. All of those six will be buying a Wii on launch day. None of them will be buying a PS3 anywhere even remotely close to launch day, and maybe never at $500-$600. What does that tell us about how the PS3 will stack up? Good luck Sony. Nice knowing you. We had some good times.
I put the RockBox firmware on my 5G ipod about a week ago because I saw that you can play doom on it. That being said, I did some research before I loaded it. As has been said here, you cannot void your warranty or break your iPod by uploading new firmware. If anything goes wrong, you can always do a full restore. I have all of my music backed up anyway, so the worst scenario would be having to wait 15 minutes for the 50Gb or so to load back on to the player.
Look, the firmware doesn't take a whole lot of space on the player and you can always boot into the original Apple firmware whenever you want by holding down the menu button when starting the player. So just go for it, it'll be fun.
I am a big fan of open source software, especially when it is worked on so actively. The games are pretty neat too. Let's face it, iPod stinks in the extras department. When I get bored, I can just boot into RockBox and play some Pac-man or Arkanoid. It's also fun to show to friends.
The only down side is the battery consumption, it really needs some optimizing in that department.
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I thought he got out of the movie business in 1999. Welcome to the 21st century /.
I am 29 years old and am admittedly a Nintendo fanboy. Almost all of my friends are not Nintendo fanboys at all, quite the opposite actually. Six of them went to E3. All of those six will be buying a Wii on launch day. None of them will be buying a PS3 anywhere even remotely close to launch day, and maybe never at $500-$600. What does that tell us about how the PS3 will stack up? Good luck Sony. Nice knowing you. We had some good times.
I put the RockBox firmware on my 5G ipod about a week ago because I saw that you can play doom on it. That being said, I did some research before I loaded it. As has been said here, you cannot void your warranty or break your iPod by uploading new firmware. If anything goes wrong, you can always do a full restore. I have all of my music backed up anyway, so the worst scenario would be having to wait 15 minutes for the 50Gb or so to load back on to the player.
Look, the firmware doesn't take a whole lot of space on the player and you can always boot into the original Apple firmware whenever you want by holding down the menu button when starting the player. So just go for it, it'll be fun.
I am a big fan of open source software, especially when it is worked on so actively. The games are pretty neat too. Let's face it, iPod stinks in the extras department. When I get bored, I can just boot into RockBox and play some Pac-man or Arkanoid. It's also fun to show to friends.
The only down side is the battery consumption, it really needs some optimizing in that department.
-stonefry