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02 Oct 2008, 11:25 am

damn small thingie

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* ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life

http://www.openpandora.org/
about $300

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02 Oct 2008, 11:48 am

I'm slightly skeptical about that battery life

But it looks good overall

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02 Oct 2008, 3:30 pm

128MB RAM, 256MB flash memory.

They had pics of it running Ubuntu. If you set it up properly, this thing wouldn't be horrible as a general use computer- e-mail, web browsing, word processing, etc. Hey, it's got a USB slot, and if get the 32 GB SD card to add memory storage capacity there isn't anything I do on my Macbook that I couldn't do with this baby.

Not bad. Not bad at all. :drools:

Even more sexy than the EeePC.

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03 Oct 2008, 5:58 pm

Yeah, it looks like a really nice bit of hardware. I'll probably just end up taking it to college instead of my laptop when I get one!

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03 Oct 2008, 8:54 pm

yep, even if its touted as a console, running some flavor of linux makes it much more interesting than the other consoles. Just saw at the website that the pre-orders are almost filled for this thingie.

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03 Oct 2008, 8:55 pm

Orwell wrote:

...and if get the 32 GB SD card to add memory storage capacity

it comes with TWO SD slots! (:

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03 Oct 2008, 9:52 pm

computerlove wrote:

Orwell wrote:

...and if get the 32 GB SD card to add memory storage capacity

it comes with TWO SD slots! (:

So up to 64GB storage, though that's more than I'd need. Probably use the USB to connect an external folding keyboard when I needed to touchtype.

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