b1llygo4t said:
2) the sticker on the battery cover is just plain lame. no special case labels (serial/model #, production #, etc.) should be placed on any part that can lost and replaced.
The sticker isn't ON the battery lid, it's INSIDE the battery lid; under the battery. Take the battery out of your cellphone, there's a good chance you'll find a very similar sticker there. (Legal text, model info etc)
i feel something special was taken away from all of us
The "First Batch" mark was something mentioned in passing, forum members jumped on, and was eventually worked into the silkscreen design. It wasn't promised from the outset. More "you guys seem to like this idea; we'll see if we can work it in". Might have been a nice bonus, but that's all.
and something even more special is being offered to people willing to pay the price.
Yes, it is. Why is this a problem for you?
If you want the new shiny, it's pretty likely they'll let you pay the extra and go to the end of the queue.
If you don't want it, why are you so upset that someone else might get it?
Pandora is a product, for sale. They're not playing favourites with Christmas presents.
they could cheaply hand screen the first batch logo onto the lid during assembly.
They tried that with the first-draft silkscreen, remember?
And it
did look cheap. That's why we didn't get it.
Oh, sorry --
hand-screen? As in, do it themselves during assembly?
No. A thousand times no. Printing on plastic (usually not
actually "silk-screening" BTW) is not easy, and takes a lot of practice, even when working with calibrated machinery. How much time and how many cases would you like them to waste while they learn this art?
3) i havnt seen any indication that the boards will NOT be harvested from the standard stockpile, that hurts any chance for pre-orders to get an 800 by 1/40. (i have faith they will all be 800+)
Your first sentence is contradicted by your second, but whatever.
I'll repeat my earlier statement:
you are not entitled to an 800MHz board. You paid for a 600MHz board. You might, by pure luck, get one that is stable at 800MHz, but it's down to chance.
They are well within their rights to set aside the most stable boards at 800MHz for the Special Edition units, even if that meant
none of the preorder units could manage it.
if i get a crappy board i will promptly ebay it
Crappy? Please. Batch two will probably be exactly the same: some unknown subset will be capable of more overclocking. 800MHz is a bonus, not a design feature.
