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There is a larger difference between LPDDR and DDR. Pyra has DDR.
Yes, but the RAM is only one of the things active. During usage with the display & SoC & radios running, the RAM refresh is a relatively small slice of the power footprint. Where it makes a bigger difference is in standby with the RAM still refreshing and the display off and the CPU in very low use.
You're welcome to your opinion or to share other's opinion. However most smartphone examples deal with LPDDR RAM with it's lower voltages and longer refresh tolerances. Pyra has DDR3 RAM - which consumes quite a bit more power than LPDDR. The difference is semi-negligible during use. However, RAM refresh power needs are a huge chunk of the power envelope during power-on-standby mode. 2GB Pyras could expect 15-30% more standby (semi-off in pocket) time.
Correct.
Yes, the best bit hearing the ED is taking some vacation (from his day job I assume, as he's still running tests for the kernel devs).
Don't know why so many people hate the keyboard so much, just use controller companion and set the Right bumper as Shift, and the left bumper as Control.Well, I´ve got a GPD and while it´s a neat and powerful little device, it suffers quite many problems:
- standby-resume issues with the occasional reboot while in standby
- driver problems
- mass-storage performance
- the keyboard
- NO KEYBOARD BACKLIGHT!
- display back-light - too dimm at day, too bright in the night
- the OS (Windows: after every service-pack some problems go away and new problems arise, the drivers and hardware support of GPD is crappy)
- hard to open (to get to the internals)
For me, it´s a really nice Steam-Boy and Youtube-machine but really not suitable for work.
That´s why I wait for the Pyra in the hope for a stable, real-work suitable machine.
The devices will both be used by me, one for playing and one for working, guess which one will do what
But that´s of course just my opinion and maybe others won´t feel the problems of the GPD as that much of a dealbraker for being a work-tool.
A sad state of affairs to be sure. I tried enabling the acceleration on my PI3 twice, about half a year between attempts (therefore with a couple of different kernel releases) both times I got artefacts in the "regular" apt-getted Oolite and had to allocate a disproportionate amount of memory for the GPU because there was no dynamic allocation... or actually there was, but that one is even more busted than the GPU driver and therefore very unstable. I had better (more rewarding
Do share if you've had more success with the GPU of a PI3!
As far as OpenGL goes, the Pandora had a far better out of box experience (it just worked) than the PI, but of course I've managed to break that experience too when tinkering with Slackware (something to do with my WM?).
