If you just want to stare at desktop and probably run some small programs then it's enough. For example P1 is quite slow device so RAM is not a problem there.
What are you basing this comment on? Select some programs and benchmark them with clock speed varying. Now do it again with memory bus speed varying. You won't find anything especially useful which varies more with the latter than the former. Nor should you. Something is only a bottleneck if you can perform all of your other processing while that part is busy. That's generally not how it works with Pandora's CPU, when waiting on main RAM it sits doing nothing unless you managed to initiate a software prefetch.
It's again gaming vs desktop usage problem. By going microsd route you're reducing maximum capacity and speed (or heavily reducing maximum capacity without reducing speed). Not a big deal for games unless you want to have a huge amount of them installed simultaneously and bad for desktop usage because, well, you often need to haul some random crap around for whatever reason
agree
That damn thing just won't die. If you really need one you could build a small IR emitter and connect it to the ext port.
To small use cases, if we are lucky, we get a USB3 port, so data-throughput should only be limited by the SoC itself
I would like to keep both FullSD slots, but could live with only one, if loosing creates a real benefit. A No No for loosing both. FullSD Cards are too widely in use to be ignored - it is just great if you can just pull the SD Card out of the camera and insert it into Pandora (especially with _wb_'s PandoraImageViewer).
I'm just saying, if the choice is between 4GB of LPDDR1 and 2GB of LPDDR3, I would prefer the latter. Or if the choice is 2GB of LPDDR1 or 2GB of LPDDR3 and paying $10 more, I would also prefer the latter.
I'd like to keep both as well since it's going to be very practical for photographic purposes. Especially since the successor will be much more capable of handling big files.
eSATA is realistic though, apart from the limited connector space. Most SoC's nowadays have both eSATA and PCI-E, even ARM ones.
Agreed about the space bar and adding a dedicated Tab button would be good. Personally I'd also like a dedicated forward slash button too - with that and Tab, command completion would be straightforward.
Yeha, tha's a very valid point. They are not very comfortable to use in the current position.
Great start!Well, since you know I'm actively working on the successor yet, I think I can share some of my ideas.
Basically, it's to keep what's good and fix what can be fixed
What's good:
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What needs to be fixed:
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What could be improved:
LCD: Better refresh rate, higher resolution (ideally 720p, but that's hard to get), size increased to 5"
Keyboard: Slightly improved layout, better feel, probably backlight
Wireless: Improved Wifi, but maybe also optional 3G/4G would be neat.
Speakers: We already have samples of much better speakers.
SoC: A more recent one, of course. And yes... we have the confirmation for one now, but I won't tell you
So, that's my basic idea - what do you think about that?
Yes, I'd hope that's a given. I have always assumed it was an oversight that the extra chip to support USB1.1 wasn't included on the Pandora board, since they didn't realise that when the chip supported USB2, that meant hi-speed only. But it's worth knowing for sure that we won't have to use a hub when plugging in a joystick or a mouse, and won't have to reboot if we ever forget on the new machine.
From my assumptions of what I read on the old forum about the design it was a conscious choice to save space on the PCB.
+1 for same or better audio wizardry, the pandora is the best mobile audio player ever.
