Another Pandora rival

[agent_orange]

Doesnt have gaming controls, and in my opinion looks rather fugly. However having the NVidia Tegra 2 chip and 1Gb RAM could make things interesting. The article unfortunately seems to be a bit short of detail, like screen size/resolution. Also Im not sure how this thing is supposed to accomodate an SSD...


What do you guys think?


http://www.reghardware.com/2011/01/26/compulab_trim_slice/

 

[vadsamoht]

Interesting, but seeing as it's


1. Very slim


2. Requires an external display


3. has reasonably advanced chipset


...means that it will likely cost a mint.

 

[skeezix]

Given its _entirely different_, how is it a rival?


- external display needed, so not really a pocketable device per se


- no keyboard


- no controls


...


Theres been thigns like that around for ages of various sizes; its a Mac Mini, for PC, thats smaller. *shrug*


jeff

 

[agent_orange]

Given its _entirely different_, how is it a rival?


- external display needed, so not really a pocketable device per se


- no keyboard


- no controls


...


Theres been thigns like that around for ages of various sizes; its a Mac Mini, for PC, thats smaller. *shrug*


jeff

My bad, I thought it had built in display. Seems bizarre that it doesnt otherwise whats the point of it being so small if its unuseable on the road

 

[second exodous]

I saw this the other day and thought it was cool, right now I have two machines, a gaming rig and an Atom eeepc. 99% of my time is spent on my eeepc, I just don't need all the raw power my gaming rig has to brows the net, e-mail, forums, freecell, ect ect ect. I'd go ARM but it seems like a hassle and until this device no one has put an ARM in a shell that is made to be used as a desktop replacement. This could be done with the OMAP4 but the closest there is right now is the Panda Board, a lot of work getting it to run and making a case for it.

 

[_David_]

I think I'll get one. With a RJ45 port + linux, it will become the de defacto Server Room tool.

 

[ibisum]

I like it, it looks pretty complete, but for my money I'd rather invest in the Beagleboard community and just get a new Beagleboard2 .. plus a little time on the laser cutter to make a neat case and I think it'd be better.