Svekkus
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I'm 30+ and drooling over the portable PC with console controls so I can carry around my collection of emulators and play my favorite games from the NES SNES ... era.
News from the meeting at GC
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TM2030 / Bépo powaaaaa ! ;=)
Svekkus
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lovely keyboard in the background
#hack #hack #hack
hns
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Insider story: we even disassembled a broken one to learn how the hinge mechanics was built... But it is too difficult to copy for the Pyra.Fock the Pyra !! Now I want this too !!
What is it ??
Seems to me that the display could be turned around ?!
Yes, they were brilliant devices and far ahead of their time. Unfortunately they never build in WiFi and Bluetooth or 2G/2.5G (3G/4G was not yet available).
And unexpectedly stopped selling them. Probably they were too expensive to sustain production.
linx
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You can see my SL-C3200 now running AlarmZ or Zalarm (arch). The mobile zaurus line had wifi/bt and gsm support. Yet the clamshell ones didn't. Bulky CF cards for connectivity. I think those wireless sd cards work though. Haven't tested it. Pyra will be my Zaurus successor, the GPD is not there yet.
Swordfish II
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Back when the Pandora was originally developed, I was one of those people and ended up getting an OQO 1, then a Viliv N5. Both were TERRIBLE and had crap battery life. I stopped looking at UMPCs for a while, and 2 years ago I came across the Pandora again, I looked at the status of the software, the OS, the battery and immediately bought a base model. It was FANTASTIC, so I bought a 1GHz, that I still use daily.
I will be 40 by the end of this year.
That's horrible.
That's horrible.
comradekingu
Glowing ember
But by then the magic childhood converter will hopefully be finished.
Taking nothing for granted, don't overdo being 39. I don't think you have expired or will anytime soon.
Still in the fridge, get in there.
Taking nothing for granted, don't overdo being 39. I don't think you have expired or will anytime soon.
Still in the fridge, get in there.
ptitSeb
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directive0
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Yesterday my phone (it's maybe a year old now) starting feeling really long in the tooth so I started researching upgrades.
At the end of about 2 hours my options dwindled and it dawned on me that basically no matter what I chose it would be expensive and run a limited OS I really didn't care for. Very few options for expansion and mostly locked down OS that is out of my control.
So no, I don't really CARE that the Pyra processor is old when the only reason I'd want a newer SOC would be for games I don't play, or a small almost imperceptible bump in performance that means nothing for the bulk of my interactions with the device. I'm tired of the smartphone/android/iOS/blahblahblah treadmill. My Pandora still has more functionality than a top of the line smartphone in most cases; the suite of emulators my Pandy uses enjoy better performance and utility than most android ones I try. I can code python on the go with it. SSH into my office machines and fix things, manage external drives with the USB port. No adapters or dongles required. Thats hard to beat with any modern smartphone.
I want a device with a real keyboard, a real OS, and a real set of expansion and IO. I can handle having an older SOC if it means I can actually do things with it. Code, compile, fool around, use peripherals etc. Whatever I choose. It's worth a premium to me, its worth not having the most up to date silicon. I can deal with that.
At the end of about 2 hours my options dwindled and it dawned on me that basically no matter what I chose it would be expensive and run a limited OS I really didn't care for. Very few options for expansion and mostly locked down OS that is out of my control.
So no, I don't really CARE that the Pyra processor is old when the only reason I'd want a newer SOC would be for games I don't play, or a small almost imperceptible bump in performance that means nothing for the bulk of my interactions with the device. I'm tired of the smartphone/android/iOS/blahblahblah treadmill. My Pandora still has more functionality than a top of the line smartphone in most cases; the suite of emulators my Pandy uses enjoy better performance and utility than most android ones I try. I can code python on the go with it. SSH into my office machines and fix things, manage external drives with the USB port. No adapters or dongles required. Thats hard to beat with any modern smartphone.
I want a device with a real keyboard, a real OS, and a real set of expansion and IO. I can handle having an older SOC if it means I can actually do things with it. Code, compile, fool around, use peripherals etc. Whatever I choose. It's worth a premium to me, its worth not having the most up to date silicon. I can deal with that.
Svekkus
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I'm reaching that milestone in August. Still feel like 18 years old except on mornings in the weekend
I will get 33 in Juli, im hoping to have my Pyra then, but i would be also happy whit my Nintendo Switch
hns
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"you are only young once, but you can be immature forever"
- wayne or garth
(40) in base 10 = (28) in base 16.... so start counting your age in base 16! Problem Solved!
Grench
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Cool. Then I'm about to be 30 again.
