nubie
Recovering Jerk-A-Holic
It is 1/4 the volume of any of the mini-laptops (touch-typing aside this is a good thing, and they make tiny foldout keyboards). And the 10-hour battery life is as good as 4 times the standard battery 2.5-3 hours for the Eeepc for example.
I don't know if I would advertise this until it was in our grubby hands being tested in actual usage, but if 8-10 hours is a reachable goal then I say we should advertise for all we are worth.
Running a web browser or overclocked emulator should be the worst the system will ever see (And PSX should be full speed underclocked!! If I read correctly), so standard homebrew or native apps will probably have plenty of resources underclocked.
I just realized how excited I am by the prospect. I bet a lot of Pandoras will sell through word of mouth when the PSP/Iphone/DS users see first hand how much better it is. Even the people bitching about the keyboard and how "funny" the analogs look will be silenced looking at the glorious screen running Quake3. (If they can't see how blurry and low-res their PSP is in comparison, they probably are legally blind.)
Who cares if a keyboard looks a little funny when the graphics are so good? And just watch your PSP friends fight with an on-screen keyboard while you TYPE in your web address B) .
Watch your iPhone toting pals try to play games on their button-less device, while you bask in the glory of the perfectly placed and comfortable (despite how it might look in a rendered photo) dual analogs, good Dpad and 6 action keys .
The PSP and iPhone guys might laugh at your "old-school" clamshell design, but the Nintendo DS guys will take a look at the device that isn't much bigger, with about 25 times the power and easily that much more usability, with full wifi browsing, built in media playing off of Dual SD slots and start adding up what their total cost was to get their SD media playing setup. Then they will compare their 3D FPS ports and media playing to Your FPS ports and media playing and just start crying .
I know people whine now about the supposed "bad looks" and "bulkiness" and "awkward controls", but when these hit the wild only the fanboys will still be complaining, anyone with a sense of logic will be unloading his collection at the nearest game store to buy one.
I just want to say good job Craig and Micheal, and a big thanks to Ti for letting them use a brand new processor (and one that will overclock so high and is so easy to dev for ).
I don't know if I would advertise this until it was in our grubby hands being tested in actual usage, but if 8-10 hours is a reachable goal then I say we should advertise for all we are worth.
Running a web browser or overclocked emulator should be the worst the system will ever see (And PSX should be full speed underclocked!! If I read correctly), so standard homebrew or native apps will probably have plenty of resources underclocked.
I just realized how excited I am by the prospect. I bet a lot of Pandoras will sell through word of mouth when the PSP/Iphone/DS users see first hand how much better it is. Even the people bitching about the keyboard and how "funny" the analogs look will be silenced looking at the glorious screen running Quake3. (If they can't see how blurry and low-res their PSP is in comparison, they probably are legally blind.)
Who cares if a keyboard looks a little funny when the graphics are so good? And just watch your PSP friends fight with an on-screen keyboard while you TYPE in your web address B) .
Watch your iPhone toting pals try to play games on their button-less device, while you bask in the glory of the perfectly placed and comfortable (despite how it might look in a rendered photo) dual analogs, good Dpad and 6 action keys .
The PSP and iPhone guys might laugh at your "old-school" clamshell design, but the Nintendo DS guys will take a look at the device that isn't much bigger, with about 25 times the power and easily that much more usability, with full wifi browsing, built in media playing off of Dual SD slots and start adding up what their total cost was to get their SD media playing setup. Then they will compare their 3D FPS ports and media playing to Your FPS ports and media playing and just start crying .
I know people whine now about the supposed "bad looks" and "bulkiness" and "awkward controls", but when these hit the wild only the fanboys will still be complaining, anyone with a sense of logic will be unloading his collection at the nearest game store to buy one.
I just want to say good job Craig and Micheal, and a big thanks to Ti for letting them use a brand new processor (and one that will overclock so high and is so easy to dev for ).