Do you plan to produce the 2GB pyra?
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Xcl4m4t10n
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I was wondering the same...
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I don't see why he would. He could just have them leave two of the chips off a few of the CPU boards.
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Because defining two different BoM lists for the suppliers is a non-null cost. It shouldn't be big cost, but it's arguable, not being in posession of all of the relevant facts, that it may be worse doing something about those that ordered the cheaper units.
I personally suspect it's not worth risking alienating a dozen or so preorderers (once of whom is myself), but that's just my pessimism possibly. I personally would not be massively offended if asked for some more money to pay for a 4GB unit, but I already have a pre-preordering voucher guaranteeing my production order (mostly). It still seems like a waste, but if it saved ED some significant amount of money, I could be convinced.
I personally suspect it's not worth risking alienating a dozen or so preorderers (once of whom is myself), but that's just my pessimism possibly. I personally would not be massively offended if asked for some more money to pay for a 4GB unit, but I already have a pre-preordering voucher guaranteeing my production order (mostly). It still seems like a waste, but if it saved ED some significant amount of money, I could be convinced.
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You can buy a 4GB Pyra and enable only 2GB RAM ^^.
Excellent, built in downgrade options! Seriously tho, 98% is a lot, if it was me I wouldn't make both models.
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I think it's quite simple, there won't be any 2GB cpu boards.
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Supporting two different memory modes can be handled easily in the Device Tree Binary. As for real life use of the OMAP5 over the last couple years I can easily say I can barely use the 2GB to the fullest on the OMAP5 devboard even with heavy use. I can't think of many games that would push the memory over 2GB, and even if it did, it would likely be CPU loaded and I feel developers wanting to enable loading data into tmpfs would be rare and not a typical thing that would happen.
That said I totally ordered the 4GB model...
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Similarly, I was influenced by Trashy's findings. I plan on buying a new CPU board when those become available, and at that point I can go for 4GB if it looks to have been useful, or even buy a new A15 board with 4GB if a new CPU board doesn't look like coming by the time I need more RAM. As is, 4GB looks to be an extravagance, and while it's only a little extra money, I can use that money against a new CPU board more effectively.
But when I placed my order it wasn't that clear how few people would actually think similarly to me - they either want cheapest and go for a standard unit, or best and go for a cellular unit with 4GB RAM. Many even seem to value the RAM over the lack of cell chip (including GPS which I currently plan to use), and go for 4GB units with no cell chip.
He can also stop to sell the 2gb model after the end of the first preorders.
About the software, it's still possible to enable ram swap, right?
So even if anything needs more ram, it would be a good way to passby the Ram issue.
About the software, it's still possible to enable ram swap, right?
So even if anything needs more ram, it would be a good way to passby the Ram issue.
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Yes, swap is always a possibility. Almost necessarily a lot slower than real RAM of course.
Not selling them after the pre-order round is one way to go. I guess another is to stop offering pre-orders of them now, but still fulfil those that have already been sold. I don't think it was too long ago that we had a bunch of 2GB preorders though, so it may be too early to say nobody more will want one.
Not selling them after the pre-order round is one way to go. I guess another is to stop offering pre-orders of them now, but still fulfil those that have already been sold. I don't think it was too long ago that we had a bunch of 2GB preorders though, so it may be too early to say nobody more will want one.
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or ED can just upgrade those guys for free and just do 4gb if there really wasn't a huge order for the 2gb version on the pyra if its feesable. just my 2 cents cause i ordered the 4gb version
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Yeah, he could do that. But it doesn't really do to suggest it, in case it causes a flood of 2GB orders if it starts to seem likely. Also, as I ordered a 2GB unit, it's really not for me to say either.
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true. what i was meaning was from say this point forward no more 2gb orders taken and only those guys that ordered the 2gb pyras get the upgrade for free. should have worded it better
Given the tiny number of 2GB cpu boards likely to be sold (maybe 50 - 100 total?), it would seem sensible to stop any new 2GB orders, and upgrade all the existing ones to 4GB models.
Do we have any real numbers on the costs involved?
Do we have any real numbers on the costs involved?
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As far as I know it's just using four different 1GB chips rather than four 512MB chips. But ED might have already got the 512MB part on order, I dunno. It would also mean only one BoM for ED to maintain and one for the factory to focus on making. On the downside, it might been greater power loss for end users though; that's an unknown at present.
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There's some nonsense about dual channel which I don't fully understand. Without it I believe batch memory access can be slower.
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Omitting two of the four memory chips would cut memory bandwidth by 50%.
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