Not sure I followed the last bit about sacrificing devas? If we have some of these lying around I would hesitate to sacrifice them purely for the sake of saving some HLA's for the later battles......
The community is important, so that is why growing a community should be more important, sticking to a niche is great, but at the end of the day a niche is a niche, its very limited appealing to a broader audience is the aim and saying that the status quo is okay is a bit elite and out of base. Linux and homebrew is great, but indy and commercial is where its at, sacrificing one or two devas bfor them bigger picture seems like an easy call to make.
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Not very accurate with a virtual keyboard, I meant sacrificing devs. Also staying niche, just because is elitist and doesn't really make for good business IMO And it goes against growing a community. Hardware both subsidized and not is a numbers game unless it is some kind of high end custom order system....
The community is important, so that is why growing a community should be more important, sticking to a niche is great, but at the end of the day a niche is a niche, its very limited appealing to a broader audience is the aim and saying that the status quo is okay is a bit elite and out of base. Linux and homebrew is great, but indy and commercial is where its at, sacrificing one or two devas bfor them bigger picture seems like an easy call to make.
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Not sure I followed the last bit about sacrificing devas? If we have some of these lying around I would hesitate to sacrifice them purely for the sake of saving some HLA's for the later battles...
Are you saying ED is an elitist for his stance on remaining niche?
If it's elitist for the Pandora 2 to stick with ARM, is it okay for the community that wants ARM to go and make a Pandora 2 knockoff?
Niche, "just because"? Who here gave you no reasons for wanting to stay with ARM? EDIT: Personally, I don't want shitty battery life in a small package, and that's going off Exophase's arguments which you ultimately agreed with, that even your AMD APU will be not nearly as efficient.Not very accurate with a virtual keyboard, I meant sacrificing devs. Also staying niche, just because is elitist and doesn't really make for good business IMO And it goes against growing a community. Hardware both subsidized and not is a numbers game unless it is some kind of high end custom order system.
No not every handheld needs to be mainstream but it needs a good business model...in the end its all a numbers game.Niche, "just because"? Who here gave you no reasons for wanting to stay with ARM? EDIT: Personally, I don't want shitty battery life in a small package, and that's going off Exophase's arguments which you ultimately agreed with, that even your AMD APU will be not nearly as efficient.Not very accurate with a virtual keyboard, I meant sacrificing devs. Also staying niche, just because is elitist and doesn't really make for good business IMO And it goes against growing a community. Hardware both subsidized and not is a numbers game unless it is some kind of high end custom order system.
And of course staying recessed in the wall doesn't make for good business, I agree with you there. I'll ask the question you ignored in a different way: does every handheld need to be mainstream?
The very fact that it isn't a numbers game is what makes this community special.its all a numbers game.
I am not sure of eds back story but he gotta be making something, this can't all be passion.The very fact that it isn't a numbers game is what makes this community special.its all a numbers game.
If it were, then ED would have left all the preorders to Craig and vanished to find something profitable.
If it were a numbers game, the P1 would be considered a prehistoric piece of junk.
Furthermore, battery life is absolutely key in a mobile computer (who likes being tied to a socket?); and I have yet to see any convincing evidence that an x86 processor can achieve the same operations/joule as the OMAP3 SOC we've got (and family)
Whole device, heavy load, 2W
I am upsetting the status quo - although none of it really matters - and I am going against owners and supporters that are somehow deeply invested...and my ego wants me to believe that some people like or are interested in my apu related threads...How can there be (another) 7 pages of this AMD nonsense in just a couple days?
Go and write some code or play some games! Find something better to do!
STFU DREDD, I'm coding my emulator just fine but I need other things to do too, you go write your emulatorHow can there be (another) 7 pages of this AMD nonsense in just a couple days? Go and write some code or play some games. Find something better to do.
It's sad to see people wasting their time refuting nonsense when they should be off writing emulators!!
Only http://www.umpcportal.com and http://www.Notebookcheck.com. are testing them and there numbers vary a little.Anyone got some real, solid data on those?
SOC power consumption when idle, and when working flat-out.