Smaller, Cheaper, Faster than the Pandora

[may88]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

 

[darfgarf]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

smaller yes, cheaper yes, faster no, different architecture, so you can't start comparing apples to oranges (or armv7/arm11 in this case)

 

[Nintendo]

 

[ManlyStump]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

smaller yes

Already you're comparing apples and oranges. Until the Raspberrypi has a built in keyboard, mouse, monitor and even power supply there's no way to say its smaller than the Pandora.

 

[agwellin]

Yeah, sorry, this is just not in the same ballpark. Both are small computers, but Pandora is a portable gaming device, and Raspberrypi is meant to plug into a full screen and keyboard. There's no way I could pull a Raspberrypi out of my pocket and start gaming in the break room at work.


Pandora still has no true competition.

 

[stratego]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

smaller yes, cheaper yes, faster no, different architecture, so you can't start comparing apples to oranges (or armv7/arm11 in this case)

smaller yes? Well, having in acount that doesn't have battery, nor keyboard, nor screen... yes, smaller :rolleyes:

 

[ManlyStump]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

smaller yes, cheaper yes, faster no, different architecture, so you can't start comparing apples to oranges (or armv7/arm11 in this case)

smaller yes? Well, having in acount that doesn't have battery, nor keyboard, nor screen... yes, smaller :rolleyes:

Good point :rolleyes:

 

[craigix]

This thread is pure Monty Python.

 

[Exophase]

I'm not as skeptical about it being released in a timely fashion as I am that it'll actually cost £15. Not a total longshot but I have my doubts.


It won't beat a Pandora in raw power, but it will probably beat a Caanoo.

 

[darfgarf]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

smaller yes, cheaper yes, faster no, different architecture, so you can't start comparing apples to oranges (or armv7/arm11 in this case)

smaller yes? Well, having in acount that doesn't have battery, nor keyboard, nor screen... yes, smaller :rolleyes:

exactly, we must use our brains to control the thing


it's not broken, it's advanced

 

[DavidBowman]

This thread is pure Monty Python.

It's about weight ratios! And the Pandora is migratory by design.

 

[SNESFAN]

This thread is pure Monty Python.

If it weighs as much as a duck, then it's made of wood

 

[bzar]

This thread is pure Monty Python.

If it weighs as much as a duck, then it's made of wood

Is that duck typing?


EDIT: potential "wooosh!" situation below

 

[SNESFAN]

Is that duck typing?

deductive reasoning

 

[DavidBowman]

Don't you mean deducktive reasoning?

BURN HER!!!

 

[GreenDream]

I'd just like to add that I've met John Cleese B) .


Relevance: Raspberry Pi and Pandora are completely different. PSP vs Macbook?

 

[Prometheus]

Relevance: Raspberry Pi and Pandora are completely different. PSP vs Macbook?

Not even that, really.


Raspberry Pi is a charity, and their device is meant primarily for the education sector in both the developed and developing world. Unless they do also make it commercial to subsidise the ones given out at no cost to their recipients, I suspect that comparing it to a commercial product, such as the Pandora, or even such as devices based on similar guts to the Raspberry Pi computer, is probably a bit of a stretch.

 

[zowki]

Raspberrypi for only £15. No doubt there'll be a queue and a Two MonthTM wait, and I also doubt if they've factored in working with the Chinese yet.

smaller yes, cheaper yes, faster no, different architecture, so you can't start comparing apples to oranges (or armv7/arm11 in this case)

ARM11 is ARM6 with more instructions and improved pipelining. Raspberry Pi is indeed faster than the Pandora.


Edit: Oops, sorry the Pandora runs ARM7 not ARM6! But shouldn't a later architecture like ARM11 have better performance than an older one like ARM7 anyways? Benchmarks would probably show this.

 

[darfgarf]

ARM11 is ARM6 with more instructions and improved pipelining. Raspberry Pi is indeed faster than the Pandora.


Edit: Oops, sorry the Pandora runs ARM7 not ARM6! But shouldn't a later architecture like ARM11 have better performance than an older one like ARM7 anyways? Benchmarks would probably show this.

armv7


it's probably debatable, but the armv7 is being used mainly for mobile things for a reason, all depends on teh specific core though, as arm is just an instruction set

 

[slaeshjag]

ARM11 is probably also using the ARMv7 instruction set. Performace of the ARM11 is worse/MHz compared to Cortex-A8 iirc.