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Kamloops here, wouldn't be suprised at all if I was the only preorder here. ~700th or so in line.

I'll call work and tell them I'm uhh... sick then sit in my beanbag chair and rice it out for hours on end, so I have something awesome to show off at work the next day with my miraculous recovery

With the Nokia N900 out of the box it clocks down to 250mhz when not under much load, and only runs at 600mhz when actively loaded. It's possible to reduce the idle frequency further to 125mhz, but this is counter productive (on the N900/Maemo atleast) because the background load will trigger...

This game is far far more system intensive than Doom 3, on both the GPU and CPU. I seriously doubt any current gen handheld will be able to run the game without some huge scaling down, a direct port to Pandora would likely just result in a slideshow.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208410&nm_mc=OTC-sho6b0tCA&cm_mmc=OTC-sho6b0tCA-_-Memory+%28Flash+Memory%29-_-Transcend-_-20208410 These are likely what I will be going with for mass storage. Tom's Hardware benchmarked them at 19-20mb/s read and 13-16mb/s write, even...

I didn't mean that the N900 didn't come with flash, I meant that someone would take the flash plugin from something like the N900 to use it on the Pandora.

I wouldn't worry about flash on Pandora, if it doesn't get ripped from other Linux based devices like the N900, it will come natively in a browser like Chrome which plans to integrate it.

Based on how the overclocking with the Cortex A8 SoCs in the Nokia N900s have went, the overclock ceiling of the SoC in the Pandora is about 1200mhz, given overvolting. My N900 does 1.1ghz with the stock voltage the kernel does for 600mhz, and 1000mhz below stock voltage. They use virtually the...

The best time is when your unit is actually shipped. I'm sure you can live a couple days with a 4gb sd card or whatever you have kicking around that you can steal from your camera.

Pandora's battery alone will make it more useful for games than the N900, since it's over 3x the capacity. On my N900, even with the brightness down to it's second lowest setting, voltages tweaked, gsm/wifi/bt/gps radios disabled et al it can only tolerate maybe 3-4 hours of full load with the...

I'm not really sure why you would want to install another OS on it, especially if you're thinking of just going to another variant of Linux. If you don't like the GUI the Pandora ships with, change the GUI, there's no reason to change the entire OS which is already tuned for the Pandora itself...

DSP is like a specific-use coprocessor that can offload certain tasks. Things like h264 and mp3 format files can be processed by the DSP instead of the main CPU, to free up the main CPU for other tasks.

After alot of playing around with overclocking on the N900, it looks like I've more or less finalized these settings (has been stable under 5 hours or so under heavy use after it was all finished), I tested each frequency step by setting it as the maximum and then stressed the device to 100% cpu...

N900 has it, pretty much all A8 devices will

I followed the wiki, in particular where it mentions the part about simply creating a kernel.txt file and loading it to test settings: http://wiki.maemo.org/Overclocking There's a few preset kernel voltage configurations included with the enhanced kernel. I must have a really good chip in my...

Well, I got my N900 yesterday did quite alot of playing around with it. I have mine overclocked to 1ghz using Titan's "ideal" kernel voltage settings, and enabled it to clock down to 125mhz. Although I guess it'd take some more time to get a 100% sure answer, it's been stable for about 3 hours...

The extra 768mb on the N900 is simply swap file, if you wanted you could probably do something silly like run a 32gb sd card partitioned entirely for swap, so you have 33024mb virtual memory available on the Pandora. Entirely pointless though.

N900 is not suitable for games at all, and I really doubt it will be nearly as comfortable for thumb typing as the Pandora. If you want to play games - Pandora. If you want a cellphone with ultimate customization - N900. They're similar but very different devices, why not have both?

Lower voltages = less heat generation, longer chip life, and better battery life. You might even be able to overclock it a bit while undervolting it to level it out, which leaves you with virtually no consequences if it's stable. Have you run some stress tests or have you just put it under...

I plan on using LXDE, since XFCE likely consumes ~25% of the Pandora's RAM upon startup. Using LXDE instead of XFCE generally knocks off about 20-30mb RAM consumption, pretty significant when you only have 256mb to work with.