Whats your favourite use of the Pandora?

[DrHAX]

This is a rather casual discussion    I'm rather curious to see what people use their Pandoras for!  What is your favourite personal use for your pandora console... or rather what keeps it good for you? Everybody whose seen my posts know I purchased mine strictly for typing up my stories, and its become a tool I can't live without. Music and typing are my favourite uses. Yes boring I know :rolleyes:

 

[ptitSeb]

I compile stuff mainly.


When I travel, I listen to music also. Not far from what you do (as I type also, quite a lot).

 

[ekianjo]

Look at my days with the Pandora series of articles on Pandoralive. Many examples there

 

[Tenka]

Reading books (Dragonlance currently) and playing Gameboy and N64 games. (Pokemon mostly)

 

[mongrol]

 I mostly play Dungeon Crawl. On the bus, waiting on coffee, sneakily in boring meetings. It's a pure joy on the Pandy. 

 

[klapse]

I use it as a home hifi audio player, with screen/ssh and mplayer.

 

[DaMummy]

music on pandora is far from boring if you ask me

 

[Yellow Kitty]

I use mine to write essays, take notes on the go. The pandora is small enough to go anywhere you go and it can do pretty much anything your laptop can do. I use it also to store private data such as passwords. Also to run Linux software my Windows laptop can't, and to keep a scrapbook and journal. I'm not into computer games, so I really have no interest in the pandora's gaming and emulation capabilities. But I like to collect emulators anyways. Lastly I use it as an "encryption office" where I have collected several software and programs that when used together makes your encrypted data very secure.

 

[GreenDream]

Essay, poem, article an fiction writing, forum browsing, music and PS1 games.

 

[Eight Bit]

Comic reading, SID player, IRC client (hexchat), Commodore 64 emu and some "native" games mainly.

I do play other emu's every now and then but not as much.

Unfortunately I find web browsing and watching video's quite tedious. Even with my new GHz Pandora. I hoped it would be better and it is, but not as much as I wanted it to be. I still use my phone for it now but I hope the Pyra will change that.

My Pandora is almost always on.

 

[Ian J]

Emulators.

 

[Null]

Playing games and listening to music.

 

[atari_afternoon]

arcade gaming, reading, recording, music,... and the essay series ekianjo means is here: http://pandoralive.info/?cat=15

 

[LardLad]

I do a lot of gaming with the Pandora during my commute and during down time.  I love the plethora of emulators available for the Pandora, in quite a few cases this has been my first introduction to the game console being emulated.  I enjoy being able to play my old favorites as ported games - Doom, Heretic,Hexen, the Quake games.  I use it at work for any number of things: Libre Office, Xournal (I love being able to open a PDF and annotate it, then email it to a colleague).  Yesterday I used Putty on my Pandora to initialize a Cisco UCS fabric interconnect over a USB to serial cable...  FileZilla has come in handy a number of times.

The Pandora is with me every day.

I've recently started using it to read books as well.

 

[TrashyMG]

While I like gaming and such, I tend to use the Pandora mostly for productivity things.. use ssh or vnc to log in remotely into the office, check on some scripts. use libreoffice for some quick writing or spreadsheets etc...

 

[rygD]

Most things I would list have already been mentioned.  Music daily, web browsing and productive things a couple times a week, games occasionally.  The huge benefit for me are those times when I want to check something with one of the tools I have, or if I am sitting in a room full of Windows computers and want to help someone with a Linux related task but don't feel like messing with a VM to verify that I am giving them good info.  I am sure the Pyra will be more valuable for that last one.

 

[groovechicken]

I never planned to do much gaming on it when I bought it, but the SNES and PS1 emulation are so good that I spent a lot more time doing that than I should have.

The other main uses are keeping tabs on my personal email account in Thunderbird, using it as a portable password safe since I keep my passwords in a KeePassX database, ssh into servers - sometimes using PuTTY so I can do X forwarding to run a browser from the computer I am controlling, and proof-reading a book for my friend.

I still plan to use it for writing on the go, but haven't had a lot of time for that lately... and Fire Emblem 4 keeps interfering with what little spare time I have.

 

[eric]

My Pandora has replaced my netbook. I use it as my notepad + diary + music device: org mode in Emacs and mpd. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[DrHAX]

Got my third Pandora shipped. Lets hope it gets to me quickly, my first two are on there way to ED to get RMA'd.. So this one will be a replacement until I get the others back..also I was always curious about how the CC units are like

 

[Lao Rebel]

i play old PC games, nes, snes, sega, n64, watch porn, listen to music, keep a journal, take notes, go online, store data...darn i do a lot w/my pandora i didn't even notice. i practically sleep w/it. imo it's better at surfing the web than my samsung tablet.