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As well as many other ARM-specific acronyms. But there are functional equivalents (for NEON it's SSE* and AVX* instruction sets) and that is enough to perform the same compiler based auto vectorization or even manual vectorization as supported by gcc extensions. Only code that's explicitly tied...

  And that's exactly what you could mean by 'keep the Pandora optimizations we already have' because psx and n64 will run fine on atom or a modern a15 with the same optimizations as x86 version. Don't know about NDS emulator(s) though. Other real 'optimizations' are hardware-specific ones so...

Here, the board is based on EOMA68 'open standard' module with Allwiner A20. It's running Mer linux and is actually a testbed for plasma active & kde5, you can find some videos on Aaron Seigo's Google+ page. There is a big chance of A80 EOMA68 module i guess. I'd love for pyra to be able to be...

this have nothing to do with architecture you know and debian takes care of availability very well   Unless Gabe buys pyra it'll be mostly experimental thing to be used when docked/connected to monitor/connected to VR glasses nothing will stop them actually anyway if pyra drivers will present...

pandora never quite fared well in programming department but pyra will change that as it'll have enough power and RAM to run any IDE, will have enough flash to install any kind of development packages and these packages will be available since it's debian we're talking about and will have dock...

There are 2 reasons for different software to exist on different versions (that are the same except SoC), the first being highly optimized software (a rare kind of software actually even on pandora) and the second being badly written software with architectural dependencies for no reason. If...

  You may be right but I didn't see anyone discussing that. Everything I read was about tdp or whatever supposed maximum power of chip. In that context this question is about maximum power consumption of the chip. Without any timeframe given this means everything from ' i'd like to have...

Didn't vote on this poll since it's too, well, simplistic given it makes us choose implementation details and not our goals with nothing but our imagination and very limited knowledge connecting both. I'd like to write the goals connected to these questions and I think many of you would accept...

That's why I think that people'll think twice (if not more) before ordering. Price may decrease in a couple of years though. Just look at people that are heavily using their arm devices. Extremely intelligent people they are, like apple fans,android fans,touchwiz haters and others that have...

TI only lists one PMIC (http://www.ti.com/paramsearch/docs/parametricsearch.tsp?family=analog&familyId=689&uiTemplateId=NODE_STRY_PGE_T&DCMP=hpa_pmp_pmu&HQS=pmu#p1395=TI-DM3730/25'>tps65910) for dm3730 and omap3530. So either it's another revision or there really is some workaround

  neo900 guys claim to be able to implement battery hot swap and they use the same SoC as 1GHz pandora. I wonder if they somehow overcame this problem 

Sure! A pocketable one, please Never heard of these (or do you mean 'fast compared to other ARM computers?') correction: more like a 700 euro computer And we're returning to the basic thing: the point of this thread. Or rather, does it have one other then flaming   There are and will be many...

So you basically can buy a good linux notebook by trying some windows notebooks and returning them if linux doesn't work correctly? 2 weeks is not enough to produce 'windows' return surge big enough to cause serious concern I think. If something like this happens bad news will spread fast...

  OK, let's mention intel chromebooks then... But yes, I see the problem there. You can't prevent bad sales anyway but is there an option to not allow (or heavily reduce) such returns? Something like a more strict return policy.

So far I haven't heard of mass outrage of atom android tablets' users because they can't install windows on it. Maybe people outside of our small niche are actually smarter then we think

  I do but home is not the only place I visit.   But not the only one. Otherwise there wouldn't be discussions of a dock station and video output types   And why would they expect it if you aren't advertising it?   Well I'm happy to be part of the elite, thanks :) Pyra won't have enough memory...

  The problem with pure software solution like suspend to disk is that it doesn't work as expected sometimes especially with games that tend to use more resources than one (cpu+gpu), and we're not talking about some dsp, network and such here. Could you elaborate on inability to remove and...

I think forum threads should have the ability to assign custom logos to them. I wonder if it's possible with this engine. The pic is great   You forgot about a dock station or plain video out. There's nothing wrong with the ability to run such games. Reviewers will appreciate that if pyra won't...

Sometimes the reality differs from your expectations. There is no android devices on z3* atoms and there's not very much windows tablets either comparing to the last year although z2* and z3* atoms were announced at the same time of year. It was not the greatest launch and I would not be...

  Modesetting mostly, yes. The fact that Intel driver development is happening in linux kernel and mesa and these projects have their respective release cycles. Also there is no linux or android devices that use z3xxx so it's not very high priority work. Also everything that seems easy to a...