Hello people :) I was actually browsing the web on my Egg when I stumbled upon your thread :P I would like to say one thing about this device that may cause a bit of turbulance but I believe my fellow developers and true tech savy peeps will agree...This piece of hardware is Fn amazing! No it's not a consumer device, no it's not refined (Hence the "Developer Edition"), no you cant download apps like the "iTard". (You heard me Apple fanboys ;) It's NEW and it's revolutionary technology. I've been working in IT and CGI for over 20 years on every platform from the Amiga to Silicon Graphics and every x86 iteration in between:P One thing that got my attention immediatly is it's ability to push media, any media, like it has about $1000+ of cpu/gpu power. Until you've used it you can't really appreciate it. The fact that Andriod is finally being released to the Zii dev community us great for all the developers who dont have a grasp on C I suppose but letting Plaszma get set aside to push the Zii technology into the consumer market seems like a horrible idea. Plaszma is, as Jay Vaughan pointed out, is VERY fast and designed (not optimized) for the ZMS-05 processor.
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Hello people :) I was actually browsing the web on my Egg when I stumbled upon your thread :P I would like to say one thing about this device that may cause a bit of turbulance but I believe my fellow developers and true tech savy peeps will agree...This piece of hardware is Fn amazing! No it's not a consumer device, no it's not refined (Hence the "Developer Edition"), no you cant download apps like the "iTard". (You heard me Apple fanboys ;) It's NEW and it's revolutionary technology. I've been working in IT and CGI for over 20 years on every platform from the Amiga to Silicon Graphics and every x86 iteration in between:P One thing that got my attention immediatly is it's ability to push media, any media, like it has about $1000+ of cpu/gpu power. Until you've used it you can't really appreciate it. The fact that Andriod is finally being released to the Zii dev community us great for all the developers who dont have a grasp on C I suppose but letting Plaszma get set aside to push the Zii technology into the consumer market seems like a horrible idea. Plaszma is, as Jay Vaughan pointed out, is VERY fast and designed (not optimized) for the ZMS-05 processor.