Craigs Talk At Newcastle University

[Bosbeetle]

http://www.supermondays.org/

Id like to have heard that talk

From the site

QUOTE
Craig Rothwell — “Building a computer was easier in the 80’s”



The final presentation was given by Craig Rothwell from the OpenPandora project. The Pandora is designed to be a handheld game console with high-end PDA capabilities, but may also be run as a low-powered full-featured Linux desktop. The unit uses a 1GHz Texas Instruments processor, 256Mb of RAM and a battery which should last 10 hours.

The units are manufactured in the US as they have had problems finding a UK based company to work with. With over 4,000 pre-orders the unit this seems rather short sighted by UK industry.

Craig was supposed to bring a demo unit with him to the talk but the courier couldn’t get it to him in time. He expects to bring one next month and hinted that we may see them in the shops soon with a price point of around £200.




We're there a lot of hard questions craig?

 

[nate9771]

in shops soon?

 

[Bosbeetle]

in shops soon?

Q3

 

[nate9771]

I dont think in q3 Il go to walmart and pick one up

 

[Bosbeetle]

I dont think in q3 Il go to walmart and pick one up

replace walmart with gbax

 

[gibberish]

QUOTE

The unit uses a 1GHz Texas Instruments processor



wat


QUOTE

Craig was supposed to bring a demo unit with him to the talk but the courier couldn’t get it to him in time.



so theres one already put together somewhere?

 

[nate9771]

oh online store,ok thanks

 

[gruso]

I think people need to take that stuff less literally. It's an introductory blurb for Craig, not a Pandora press release.

so theres one already put together somewhere?
Technically, yes. Craig's Twitter entry suggests that MW has an assembled FDM prototype. If that's the case, of course there was no time to get it couriered, it's only been assembled for a few hours and it's in Canada. Craig's presentation was probably organised weeks/months ago, so he would have been hopeful of having an assembled unit at the time.

 

[Bosbeetle]

QUOTE

The unit uses a 1GHz Texas Instruments processor

wat


QUOTE

Craig was supposed to bring a demo unit with him to the talk but the courier couldn’t get it to him in time.



so theres one already put together somewhere?



Probably they will make a few of the fdm prototypes.

 

[Iorgy77]

Pesky courier playing with the finished pandora right now probably... :rolleyes:

 

[Bosbeetle]

I think people need to take that stuff less literally. It's an introductory blurb for Craig, not a Pandora press release.

I agree, and I apologize for making this topic

 

[sindbad]

I can't believe I'm in Newcastle and I missed that.

 

[gruso]

No need to apologise Bosbeetle, I'd like to know more about the talk too. We just have take any words written by non-Pandora people with a grain of salt.

If nothing else, the super high-res photo of Craig on that site is ripe for exploitation.

 

[benjymous]

I can't believe I'm in Newcastle and I missed that.

Ditto (although I doubt the uni would let people just walk in off the streets)

Any other North-east people around? It'd be cool to find somewhere with free wifi and do some sort of monthly Pandora user group

 

[PoisonedV]

No need to apologise Bosbeetle, I'd like to know more about the talk too. We just have take any words written by non-Pandora people with a grain of salt.

If nothing else, the super high-res photo of Craig on that site is ripe for exploitation.

I agree. The people writing this are not pandora fanboys, and the target audience isn't. just get over it.

 

[benjymous]

If nothing else, the super high-res photo of Craig on that site is ripe for exploitation.

Anyone else amused that they decided to take a photo when he was showing a slide of the Wiz?

I've just read the site, and realised it was an open event, not a talk to the university itself. Shame.

Hopefully I'll hear about the next one early enough to try and go!

 

[PoisonedV]

If nothing else, the super high-res photo of Craig on that site is ripe for exploitation.

http://i43.tinypic.com/30rmvpl.png
oh exploitable

(edited, woops images huge, lol)

 

[Bosbeetle]

If nothing else, the super high-res photo of Craig on that site is ripe for exploitation.

[picture]
oh exploitable



hehe

 

[PoisonedV]

Oh god, don't quote it!

 

[Bosbeetle]

Oh god, don't quote it!

I quoted before you