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Well I hope pandora's CPU won't be too slow! Though I guess really noone can tell until they become avaliable. From memory though older ARM CPUs could "feel" slow (though a lot faster than their contempories of the same era, such as the amiga and atari ST). I have an old Acorn A7000 and an...

Definately a pandora. Just for me personally I'd have little use for the wiz; by and large I've hardly used my GP2X for the exact same reason - that reason being I'm not a major gamesplayer. From what I've seen of the wiz it looks like it's going to be largely targeted at kids too judging...

I got a jacket, but mine had the word "straight" in front of it. :) ljones

That looks pretty good! :) Though I had no idea the pandora was going to come with a touchpen! One more thing though. Can we have a vote on as to what colour the LED is? Hehe! (Just being silly, my apologies). ;) ! IHMO that case looks a lot better than some laptops out there, some laptops out...

Uh oh. I hope the company doing the assembly work in china is a good one! I work for a small electronics assembly company (in the UK) and some of our circuit boards are made in china. Quality is often variable; it is usually OK but there have been *many* times where stuff just isn't done...

:) Much better, can see the size of this thing now! About the same size as an atari portfolio. Now that's going back a few years! Very intresting pics though, and I hope pandora goes well. ( http://oldcomputers.net/pics/portfolio-hand.jpg ...

Intresting photos :) . And the pandora looks smaller in RL than if you just tried to measure it out or imagine it! On the small photos, I think that craigx has done as much as he could do with those photos. They have been taken indoors, late at night (I'm guessing) under artificial light and...

If a full blown gnome desktop will use too much memory, how's about using something from here ( http://xwinman.org/ ) . Or what about something that uses even lower requirements than (say) XFCE, what about EDE? (http://equinox-project.org/page/ ) . I haven't used it, but it look like it does...

Unless I'm being very silly/mistaken if it has already been discussed here in which case I apologise, but I was wondering this - what voltage/current will the pandora need to run? Will it be (for example) 12V@500mA, or more or less? And what sort of connector/power supply will be used for the...

Just thinking about marketing for a moment, from what I have read the first run of 3000 units will determine future runs, so if takeup is fast then there will be more made, and preumably if it is slow, there will be no more pandoras. What is concerning is how will that 3000 sell? From what I...

First of all, the pandora's keyboard will definately be very useful IHMO. :) . If the pandora never had a keyboard, it is possible I wouldn't have chosen to get a pandora at all. Here's an odd alternative btw -- just as a thought, nothing more. How's about producing a "nostalgia computer" (not...

Java seems to run slow on just about everything! ljones

Am I right in saying the beagleboard uses the same CPU as pandora? If so, here's a quote from the beagleboard FAQ regarding its CPU and clock speeds; QUOTE # ARM processor at BeagleBoard currently uses 500MHz # 500MHz is the default used because it is a balance of performance and longevity #...

I wouldn't mind just seeing some photos of the developers at work on the linux OS for the pandora! :) ljones

By and large one of the reasons for me getting a pandora is because it well.....ticks several of my boxes. The other systems avaliable just don't do that; there is always something which is either dissapointing, annoying or something that I'd probably never use at all. If the pandora turned out...

Not 100% sure, but for anyone who's thinking of getting a beagleboard outside of the USA, you might have to forget it. I couldn't see anything referring to international orders on their site, and a search for 'beagleboard' on their UK site returned nothing. ljones

If anyone is looking for some sort of lightweight office program, maybe an old office suite called "siag office" would work? It is a very old program and dosen't have so many features, but it should run pretty quickl *if* it could be made to run. I think it needs KDE (but an older version?)...

I think that's quite right. Digital TV signals aren't like the old analogue ones whereby you could get away with a bit less signal and still get something watchable; with digital terrestial TV signals there's a fine line beteween getting nothing, a broken picture and a complete picture...

Apologies for hijacking this thread, but if the pandora is to have Playstation 1 emulation then ... from memory, the Playstation 1 uses a special CD format? How do get that onto something like a memory card? Can a normal PC read Playstation 1 CDs without getting into copy protection problems...