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Mine will replace my ancient (second hand) IBM T22 laptop. The batteries on the IBM are fine and they aren't *that* expensive as laptop batteries go on ebay, but the screen is on its last legs. The pandora can also replace a slightly less old toshiba laptop - it has a better spec than the IBM...

From memory, aren't the pandoras being assembled in china? If that's the case surely they (the company in china) are responsible for testing before they send them out? If they do, maybe they only 'batch test' them? ljones

Who on earth would want window$ CE anyway? I think you'd be breaking pandora's open source nature if you want to have that godawful software on it. :( This subject has been discussed and over-discussed on the old forums. ljones

If anyone is going to use a different power supply other than the pandora one please just bear this in mind -- make sure the voltage and polarity are correct! If the voltage is too high or you get the polarity wrong - that'll be your pandora up in smoke x.x ! Which reminds me -- is the pandora...

Hello all :) ! Y'know, there's been one other thought that has been with me while I have been following the pandora. Ok, more of a hope than a thought. Me personally - I'm hoping pandora will initiate a spark; the spark that might get others to produce other open-source/community devices just...

Would it be possible or a good or bad idea maybe to look at slackware rather than ubuntu? ljones

Re: Huh? The TV-Out is S-Video? I'm no expert but I'm guessing maybe the popping sound is actually arcing somewhere in the TV. Unfortunatly it probably isn't worth repairing as the price of repair would proabably be above the price of an equivilent new TV. Alas that's the throwaway society we...

Well the developer's fund was only a small amount, and I guess any amount for the developers would always be welcomed by them. The reason I donated was that I thought it was going to help pay the bills, i.e. you don't need sackfulls of money to make software but you need money to pay money or...

The problem with using RiscOS is that it isn't going to know anything about drivers. So an entire system would have to be created to allow such a thing. RiscOS is pretty old now, and last time I checked (though I admit my infos could be out of date) some portions are closed source and...

Isn't the AV (tv-out) connector somewhere in this thread? http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showt...mp;#entry634353 ljones

I wonder how many it's been so far? From the above posts it could be as low as 50, or as high as 250. But just maybe there might be another peak tomorrow, as all those who wanted to get the pandora today (but couldn't) try then? And those outside these forums although there are many more...

1 x Pandora (!) 1 x Pandora case 1 x Battery 1 x TV cable 1 x £10 donation That's my lot for now though. That's as much as I could afford! I wonder what those little pandora cases will look like? Also I wonder how many pandoras were sold by (say) the end of today? Would it be :pandora1: or...

There seems to be a problem with the preorder site. I managed to go through all the steps to pre-order, but when I returned to the site the basket on gbax hadn't been emptied! I'm confused, I got all the messages about the order being safe and a confirmation email from openpandora sales, surely...

All pre-ordered here :) as of 3.14PM (my time; is that 2.14PM for these forums?) ! I'm glad I took the day off work! ljones

Wow yes everything seems to have slowed almost down to nothing. Got a message on the main pandora site too, "Too many connections". Just stop refresh refresh refresh! BTW, 2.35pm here. ljones

I guess the real reason why those making the pandora don't produce tons of replies and information is because they can't! Making the pandora must be a tortureous and complicated task, especially and I think I read this elsewhere they have jobs to go to as most of us here will. So they aren't...

The idea of having to run WinCE on a pandora makes me want to wince.... x.x I must admit if the pandora was a windows machine, I definately wouldn't be getting one. Isn't the whole idea behind pandora is to be open, and wince definately is not. *Sighs. I must admit I'm getting sick of all these...

Pretty much :) ! Though things are at least beginning to change. Think how the gnu/linux OS has grown over the years. 10 years ago, it was virtually unknown but now look at it all. Come a long way. IHMO though the pandora isn't just a tiny computer-console. It's proof that a community can...

I guess one way round it would just to get some sort of modem (is there such a thing?) to turn the pandora (or a PC) into a mobile phone. Though how well it would work is another question. I looked at the openmoko, but I can think of 2 problems. Number one what happens to your existing service...