Pandora creeps ever closer to production in latest round of photos
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posted June 2nd 2009 11:26AM
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holly crap! its FUGLY
holly crap! you're FUGLY
@atomicthumbs
Boy you have all the answers don't you?
Answer this one, why come you're sucha tool?
If you go over the open pandora forums, you'd realize he spends a lot of time over there, and understands what exactly it is better then you. He's correcting mistakes in people's arguments. If anything you're the tool, for being so damn ignorant.
Hey thanks man for setting me straight. I mean I should have know that atomicthumbs was some kind of 'insider" that had all the info. And boy he is sure doing a good job correcting people's "mistakes" opinions. But what do I know I am just your average gadget guy, clearly this guy and you for that matter are way cooler than me...
Oh plaid, you're just the internet incarnation of Oscar Wilde, aren't you.
oh touche' Loonie, touche'
Cool idea. I dont like the design at all.
Don't you worry, atomicthumbs will let you know how misguided your opinion is in 3....2.....1
What don't you like about it?
I think he said the design.....
I mean what about the design?
It looks like a brick, with a lid.
The whole thing maybe?
I think the design is great, allowing for emulation of many different systems with one layout.
Keyboard for atari, amiga, zx
Gaming controls for ps1, n64, snes, gb
touch screen for linux environment for a full featured pocket laptop.
How else would it be possible to fit all those features together in any other way??
The design is intended to make it very easy to emulate older systems .. this is really the best system around for running emulators.
This thing is sexy. I defiantly going to pre-order this. Play all my favorite old games OTG, that just sit there right now.
If it weren't for people like me who have already preordered the first batch. Dont worry, i'll post pictures of it on your blog. :)
For something thats never going to make the makers any money, they've sure spent a lot of time preping it.
you do realise that to get something out very quickly costs more money, right? sure, pay a few guys a proper wage to get everything done smoothly and quickly. or like this project, do it in your free time, take time to do it properly, and dont pay a premium to push things out faster. yes they might miss out on the initial hype but the pace they are going at is the ONLY way to keep costs down. its pretty impressive that a device like this can be made internationally by a few fanboys and technologically piss over Sony and Nintendo. the last company that made a device as capable as this was the OQO and that cost 4 times as much. the place that the system will suffer most is lacking in commercial games with money to throw at development that will make the most of the hardware, but with many older games going open source or thinking about allowing pandora ports to be made we could see a whole plethora of titles. hell we already know it can run Quake 3, the question is where can it go from there? and yes i am buying one, but i am under know illusion that it is flawless or perfect for your every day gamer.
The original XBox didn't make Microsoft any money either, in fact, they lost a fortune. These guys should at least turn enough of a profit on this to follow up with something even better later on down the road. The cool thing is that, when the time comes, we'll all have our say in what we want in the next version...and I already have a few ideas for them.
But yeah, I'm really hoping that they get the lead out and get this thing out already. It feels like it's been forever.
Oh MAN!
This might be the thing to trump my Dingoo A320.
We'll see.
I really like this idea and am excited to see it in action....... Sadly by the time I do OLED/e-ink newspapers will be all the rage by that time...... This thing could make a killing now.... Right now and make itself have a second machine within a year or two and begin the dynasty of the pandoras...... Instead I think they might be spending too much time on perfection since theyre a small company.
It runs QUAKE II y III Arena and Descent I y II ;-)
Why the dual SD slots? I understand having one, but two? Couldn't that space be used for something else?
There's two SDHC slots because that's what we asked for. I'll admit that the feature was much cooler two years ago than it is now but I won't scoff at having the choice of up to 64GB of storage space. Plus, I can't really think of anything else to put there anyway.
Linear: Well it HAS just about everything. It's essentially a high end Linux netbook in a tiny form factor. Since it has so much capabilities you're going to want to have lots of storage space. You could have two 32GB cards in there for all your games and programs.
I see, well just to elaborate on the point of space use, I'm really referring to real-estate consumed by individual components internally, not so much the physical space on the exterior casing. My understanding is that when engineering portable devices like these, even a few centimeters of additional space can affect the overall design; such as creating room for a slightly larger battery, or allowing other components to run a little cooler, or just plain allowing for the shuffling of internals around to make for an equally capable but slimmer overall design. Anyway, I see your points about added capacity, especially if this is what people actually requested back when they started designing the thing.
Maybe a year from now? By then we will have better stuff, too bad they couldn't bring this to market sooner. Now it's just a little bit late in the game, but i hope it does well!!!
This still hasn't shipped??? I gave them my money back in Sept 08... casue they promised shipment by christmas.... I guess they didnt say WHICH christmas.
I think we have a spiritual successor to Duke Nukem.
Only two more months to go.
Sorry, inside joke. :D
looks like my crappy psone lcd screen.
Actually, Archos 5.
Hey, AtomicThumbs. Aren't you supposed to be handling all of these?
I guess. :P
It's the same screen as the Archos 605 WiFi. Really bright, sharp, and high-resolution.
My bad. That's why you're supposed to be handling these. :)
why pay $399 to get a crappy open source hand held gaming system when you can pay $300 for a Dell Vostro A90 that will run all the emulators this thing can and more, plus it's an actual computer that can be fairly easily upgraded and modified...
I can't wait to see you try to squeeze that in your pocket, Chachi. :)
Does it have gaming controls? Can you fit it in your pocket? Didn't.
Meant to say didn't think so.
What a clunky looking roughshod POS. For being so impressive technologically you'd think they'd make it look sleeker than a word processor.
rabbit guy, I see you post on all the Pandora articles here and at giz minutes after they are posted. Don't you feel a little negative after al the delays.
I for one love everything about the Pandora, except being over a year late from the original release date. I'm going to wait until I can order one with a creditcard and get it one week later.
Anyway, a year ago it would have been something of amazing power, now it is just going to be like a highend ARM MID with an amuture UI and sweet gaming controls to make it all worth it.
I want Android on it with 3g modem and I dont need pc anymore ROTFL
Android will be able to run on it, (it allready runs on the Beagleboard, almost the same hardware) it will probably be ported within weeks after it has been released. If you have a bluetooth/wifi 3G phone, you can tether through that. And there is always the option of a 3G USB modem which i think has also been confirmed to work, or, again,. will very quickly after release
If you want to see some videos of the prototypes running programs/games there are quite a few posted on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4VtAg_xzo
I think Atomicthumbs is doing a great job of protecting the honour of us Pandora customers. Personally I don't get it, but a lot of you guys care more about style over substance. What you're missing out on is refreshing example of function over form - it offers the people who bought it a package of features not found anywhere else (and much wanted).