God Ginrai
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Just found out about this thanks to the thread. Found it in my junk folder like everyone else. Went Dark Chrome and adapter. Survey count: 650.
-God Ginrai
-God Ginrai
It's software this time!
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Arkay Firestar
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Just ask the 22 people to please pay more. If they genuinely can’t, then ED upgrades them for free. If they can, they’re getting more than they ordered for and it’s reasonable that they pay more for it. I imagine most people who have one of these preordered aren’t so pinched that the difference would really hurt, but if it does, I think a free upgrade is totally reasonable and I don’t mind it as a 4gb preorderer.
daveshah
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I expect that ED is not giving the 2GB people an upgrade out of the sheer kindness of his dragon-heart, more likely a small batch of 2GB boards would be much more expensive than the upgrade cost.
Kippykip
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Awww no red Pyra? DOg.....
(Understandable, have a nice day)
(Understandable, have a nice day)
pengo
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Djoga'Ro
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Valid enough. Though, answering with "I genuinely can't" would always raise the suspicion, that maybe the answerer is just greedy. Than ED would just have spared them that pre-emptively. ?
Nah, more like Neelix'Yes, just like!
theredbaron
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I have no doubt those will be buyable as a post market 3d printed expensive replacement case. However, for the standard mass production one, cost need to be low. That means as few colors as possible and as simple as possible. That means standard colors, which means black at this time.Yes, just like!
The other colors wwill come out in 2 months....
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Young Ace
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I'm just chiming in to say that I did not receive an email. I pre-preordered in 2015, no. 199!
Arkay Firestar
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At the end of the day as a 4gb order I don’t care if 22 people get more without paying as much as I did. If it’s a bigger pain for ED, he needs to do what’s easiest and I think it’s only the worst human tendency for everyone who was preordered to pay more to get more to complain that that few people pay less the get as much. Who cares. They didn’t know it years ago when they ordered.Valid enough. Though, answering with "I genuinely can't" would always raise the suspicion, that maybe the answerer is just greedy. Than ED would just have spared them that pre-emptively. ?
Nah, more like Neelix'
I just want my Pyraaaaaa
Kev2442
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levi
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You did remember to uprgade your pre-preorder to a mainline pre-order starting in May 2016, right? You'll need to do that before you can pay for a final unit, but luckily you can still do that today. There were reportedly a good few dozen people who never upgraded their pre-preorders all along, so I guess it makes sense you see one pop up from time time time now.
Stainy
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Checked your spam?
rv6502-2
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I got a slightly less silly solution.
If I'm not mistaken there are 4 RAM chips on the board.
If any of the preorder boards have one or two defective memory chips those could put aside and shipped as 3 or 2 GB devices with the defective chips disabled in the firmware.
Hopefully none of the RAM chips end up defective but if it happens this could work out just fine.
levi
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That could work, but the resulting units would have half of the memory bandwidth.
Also, it'd mean multiple variants to support with different codebases, which was part of what made him not produce the 2GB units in the first place.
Also, it'd mean multiple variants to support with different codebases, which was part of what made him not produce the 2GB units in the first place.
daveshah
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Tradition PC memory has an EEPROM chip on it (SPD) that contains the size and the timings.
That would be overkill for an embedded board like the Pyra. What the Pyra CPU board has is a resistor that can be fitted or not fitted depending on whether the board is 2GB or 4GB.
The bootloader should be able to autodetect that and set things up accordingly, but I don't think anyone ever made that work due to the decreasing interest in 2GB units, so there are just different bootloader builds for 2GB and 4GB.
That would be overkill for an embedded board like the Pyra. What the Pyra CPU board has is a resistor that can be fitted or not fitted depending on whether the board is 2GB or 4GB.
The bootloader should be able to autodetect that and set things up accordingly, but I don't think anyone ever made that work due to the decreasing interest in 2GB units, so there are just different bootloader builds for 2GB and 4GB.
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Indeed, that's not an ideal situation given that GPUs tend to enjoy having lots of memory bandwidth; and TILER does, unavoidably, somewhat eat into available video memory bandwidth due to the overhead of rotation.
Swordfish II
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What gets them out the door the fastest?
Do that.
After years of waiting I don't care if I paid a slight bit more. I just want it already.
Do that.
After years of waiting I don't care if I paid a slight bit more. I just want it already.
λ the β-Redex Reducer
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If you do not want to pay slightly more more than you can take the black version. Only Dark Chrome costs extra.
Kippykip
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^^^This
I was just checking spam and got a poll about the pyra colour (should be asking if you want black or dark black or something?)
I'm assuming it went to spam for most providers as it said there was only like 7 results when I did it.
