Pyra comes with a pandora case ? Is it for prototypes only, or preorderers will also receive the case ?
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@Grench. Waiting is getting difficult now, but it is exciting too.
Prototypes got several extras, aka 'goodies'. From what I can tell we are each getting different 'goodies'. Pretty cool in my opinion, but then I'm obviously biased.
Battery charging current draw dropped down to 1A. Would not start or reset. Pulled the battery for 30 secs, reassembled, started right up.
Getting a weird status report on the battery.
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Laptop battery 2 hours 50 minutes remaining (100.0%)
Laptop battery discharging (51.0%)
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Why would it give two lines for that?
Plugged unit in while running = blank screen. Push & hold power button 8 secs powers off. Press again, back up and running. Clearly there are some improvements remaining to be made in how the software controls the power management?
Connects to WiFi well enough - though a bit weaker signal than most of my other devices.
Boots real fast!
Now that it is up and running with the 2A charging source and the meter between it and the source, I am reading 0.67 A draw.
Battery report now:
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Laptop battery charging (100.0%)
Laptop battery discharging (77.0%)
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At least it is seeing the charging now - when I had it connected to the lower Amp source it didn't say 'charging'. The 'discharging' side of the message is confusing though.
Disconnected from power source, now I have three messages about it.
Pop up says Battery Discharging 11 Hours remaining 84%.
On the status bar:
Laptop Battery 7 hours 5 minutes remaining (100.0%)
Laptop battery discharging (66.0%)
Got VLC playing back MP3 files now. Audio through speakers is very good. Have to be careful on the volume though - get too far up and it starts to crackle and distort (known that it can overpower the speakers). Plugging in headphones = very loud in headphones & speakers still playing. Known configuration bit. Figured out how to control it well enough. Volume wheel seems to work only for the speakers. To further control the volume on the headphones, I control the VLC output volume down to about 45%. VLC works pretty darn awesome with the D pad controlling FFW/RW volume up & down. Getting a whole lot of audio artifacts - line noise type stuff - when VLC is running. Might be something to do with VLC. Still, not bad for "eight o' clock day one".
I have a 256GB SDXC card in the right slot that I'm playing VBR MP3 (lossless bitrate levels) files through. (yes, I know, but MP3 are compatible with everything). It was my card from my Pandora, I thought that the music on it would be a good place to start.
Sitting idle, Gkrellm is showing 4-7% on CPU0 and 2-7% on CPU1. They seem fully independent of each other - i.e. they are not up/down locked (good thing).
Screen is clear and bright - if a bit glossy.
Screen brightness and keyboard backlight go up/down as intended - use the left shoulder buttons as modifiers when using the backlight adjustment button - works great!
After letting the system settle after playing around with VLC, I'm still getting dual messages out of the battery system.
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Laptop battery 6 hours 55 minutes remaining (91.0%)
Laptop battery 2 hours 50 minutes remaining (54.0%)
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It is like the tale of the man with two watches - never knows what time it is.
Don't take the above as complaints. This is a prototype - I do not expect it to 'all be working'. My overall opinion is that this device is going to be fantastic! Feels comfortable in the hands. No, I haven't gamed on it yet. That is all for tonight. Time for me to put my Marble away.