Open Pandora Reborn @ Global Components

[Mjlink]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDxG-AdqZEA

For anyone missing this on the other forum, enjoy, and give it a Like in YouTube if you do of course!

 

[dadioflex]

Best of luck to them.

If they can sort out the quality problems and get the price a lot closer to a hundred euros then my interest would be re-kindled. Yeah, I know...

 

[cosurgi]

wow, this is so great. Even though I have my pandora for almost a year already, watching this video made me so happy!

EDIT: oh, by the way: does it have some upped spec? I heard some discussions about more RAM, or something.

 

[skeezix]

I think all the new units will have the 512MB RAM onboard instead of 256; feature-wise no difference .. same firmware for all units.

jeff

 

[Klumpen]

I think all the new units will have the 512MB RAM onboard instead of 256; feature-wise no difference .. same firmware for all units.

jeff

Not anymore.
The new firmware updates change a lot and the additional 128mb can be used,
i think that this is already the case in the recently appeared beta.

 

[WizardStan]

It's still the same firmware for all units though.
Older units will just have to upgrade to the new firmware manually instead of coming pre-installed. And based on the beta I am highly recommending that they do upgrade, once the bugs have been worked out.

 

[Klumpen]

Maybe it will be wise to put the new 256mb-RAM in the old ones (like mine) some day,
but that should just change performance of virtual machines on the pandora, i think.

 

[WizardStan]

There aren't any virtual machines on the Pandora. Or do you mean emulators? In which case more RAM won't help at all, nothing running is currently RAM limited. Where more RAM helps is in desktop tasks and multitasking: web browsing can rapidly eat all your RAM, and more RAM will let you listen to music and edit word documents more smoothly. There's only one game that I'm aware of that would benefit from more RAM: Wesnoth. Other than that, the average game player isn't likely to see any benefit from the extra memory.

 

[Klumpen]

Or do you mean emulators?

No.

There aren't any virtual machines on the Pandora.

Yes there is one, it's in the beta right now and working quite well with Win98 for example.

Just wait and see what's coming out of the german forums.

 

[WizardStan]

Yes there is one, it's in the beta right now and working quite well with Win98 for example.

Win98 runs on x86. You can't run it in a virtual machine on an ARM CPU, it requires an x86 emulator like qemu.

 

[Letalis Sonus]

Yes there is one, it's in the beta right now and working quite well with Win98 for example.

That ain't a Virtual Machine. VMs do not emulate a processor. They simply transfer the native code from within the VM to the real CPU for execution with the help of virtualization extensions of the CPU.

Can you run Win98 on ARM? No you can't, there will never be a VM that can run it on any ARM system, because there is no x86 CPU - and virtualization extensions for ARM are still yet to be done.

You know, QEMU is called QEMU because its primary operation purpose is emulation, support for virtualization was just a later addition.