The Pandora.

[alexh]

I'll wait. TRUE battery life and construction quality is still unknown.

All images of the Pandora exterior are still 3D models, meaning the final case still has never been made!

[Edit: I've now seen one video of a real Pandora plastic case, but it is not a great quality video]

It has this great 3D capability but all the demos I've seen are all software rendered! Something doesn't seem right here.

[alexh]

yakumo9275 wrote:
well most of the existing software was written for SDL, so why would that know about a new 3d chip?

Quake 2? I think that could be compiled with OGL support!

I'd just like to see that the drivers and infrastructure are there and can be used.

yakumo9275 wrote:
I have not seen any of the SDL/GL demos tho

My point exactly.

[alexh]

som99 wrote:
Btw the battery specs will be up to 10 hours in normal use based on calculations

Yeah, I'd prefer some times based on experimentation.

som99 wrote:
Also no real 3D rendering videos is up yet but that´s ofc because noone have a pandora yet only mk0´s and not the final system yet. So it´s early and what people allredy have ported on the mk0´s is impressive.

Absolutely. But before I buy one, I'd like to see some 3D applications running and some benchmarks etc.

som99 wrote:
Also you can do a little research yourself on teh 3D chip.

PowerVR SGX GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0, several million polygons per second). OpenGL ES demonstrated

I know some of the team that developed it. A handful of top people at Imagination Technologies used to work with me at another company where I designed the GPU (based mainly on my knowledge of Amiga hardware). It's a very small world where ASIC design is concerned.