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MP3 player suggestions ...
Mele:
--- Quote from: kyanwan on July 14, 2009, 07:30:16 PM ---That cowon player looks nice. Only thing I don't like: touchscreens. I've got this thing for touchscreens.
Like - disgusting fingerprints smeared all over the screen. I have little tolerance for that. ( and with these people touting "design" - I'm afraid of the price tag. )
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I agree completely. Touchscreens are generally only a gimmick used to sell a product without truly adding any additional functionality but still increasing the cost. This is kind of what Apple stands for, but the DS at least uses the touch screen effectively sometimes. I also like being able to blindly navigate my Zune in my pocket simply by recognizing the buttons - something that isn't possible with touchscreen based devices.
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on July 14, 2009, 07:38:22 PM ---emulators for pretty much any console prior to the n64.
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What device these days can't emulate pretty much any console prior to the N64? The DS, PSP, and even some powerful mp3 players can do it.
sdedalus83:
Since when did any handheld but the psp do playable psx emulation?
And snes is pretty sketchy, even on the psp and iphone.
Mele:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on July 14, 2009, 09:51:44 PM ---Since when did any handheld but the psp do playable psx emulation?
And snes is pretty sketchy, even on the psp and iphone.
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When you said N64 I was assuming you were referring to the generation as a whole, which would have included the PSX. My mistake. SNES emulation worked great for me back when I had a PSP, and I was using homebrew builds released within the first few months of the console's launch.
And as you said, the PSP can emulate PSX games. To me the Pandora is just an expensive glorified PSP. What does it really have to offer?
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: Mele on July 15, 2009, 01:47:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on July 14, 2009, 09:51:44 PM ---Since when did any handheld but the psp do playable psx emulation?
And snes is pretty sketchy, even on the psp and iphone.
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When you said N64 I was assuming you were referring to the generation as a whole, which would have included the PSX. My mistake. SNES emulation worked great for me back when I had a PSP, and I was using homebrew builds released within the first few months of the console's launch.
And as you said, the PSP can emulate PSX games. To me the Pandora is just an expensive glorified PSP. What does it really have to offer?
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The PSP won't even load snes games needing coprocessors, isn't playable with most hacked roms, and won't run a lot the later, larger, more demanding games. Sure, it's a lot better than trying to play them on a DS or iphone, but hardly all that great.
The pandora is an ARM based, ds lite sized netbook with gaming controls and about 8 hours of battery life. If you can do something on an atom based netbook running linux, you can do it on the pandora, albeit generally more slowly. The PSP is a completely different beast. They both have their place, and both are far better choices than the overpriced DMPs currently on the market.
I'll certainly keep my psp around for psp and psx games, but for everything else, it's considerably less capable.
Nanonanol:
*drools*
From what I saw on the openpandora forums, battery life seemed to be around 10 hours for games/video, and closer to 12-15 for audio. However, for audio, the device wasn't running in power management mode (i.e. the screen was still lit up, and the core was running at the voltage for 500MHz) ... so maybe if they are able to add code for power management, the battery life could increase for audio ;D
I think I may just wait to buy anything for the meantime, and see how the pandora turns out (as far as the production scale).
Does anybody have an idea as to how large future batches are going to be? I read that the first batch was only 4000, but I haven't found anything on future batches (although admittedly I only searched for a little while before going to work)
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