![]() The Pandora keyboard was surprisingly good.īattery life of an Intel Atom running Win 10 vs an Arm running Linux though? Even Microsoft can't get their Surface Pro 4 to come close to the advertised battery life. I don't like the keyboard though, it doesn't look like the gaps are distinguished enough. It's a great little tool for sys admins, a full linux terminal with wifi in your pocket. But since it used a desktop OS, you could do word processors, coding (I had Codeblocks and GCC on my Pandora), whatever. The Pandora had emulators for everything (DOS, N64, Playstation, Amiga, C64, Mame, etc) and they ran great. The main purpose of the Pyra (and Pandora before it) is retro gaming. As a complete opposite of Oculus and Microsoft, the Pyra OS has zero info phoned home to Dragonbox. The full specs for the case will be released. The case is designed to be easy to open in case you want to hack around in it. The OS is open source (except the drivers for certain bits like the GPU, that can't be avoided, the manufacturers won't give out source). There's also versions with 4G mobile support, it costs 400 euros for preorder with a further 200 (2GB) or 230 (4GB) euros when shipped. The Pyras with 2GB or 4GB of ram have a preorder cost of 330 euros, with another 170 (for 2GB) or 200 (for 4GB) euros paid when shipped. The Pandora (with a 600MHz Cortex A8 cpu) was able to emulate an Amiga and Playstation 1 at full speed, and could even run dos games like Balder's Gate in dosbox, the Pyra will be much faster.Īt the moment the preorder is a partial payment used to begin manufacturing. The original Pandora had crazy long battery life and great audio quality, so the Pyra should be similar. It's not running a mobile OS, it's basically a full desktop linux distro built for ARM. It's got 32GB of internal storage, a micro sdxc slot in the battery compartment and dual sdxc card slots on the front. It includes a D-Pad, dual analog joysticks, ABXY buttons and 4 shoulder buttons, since one of the purposes of the Pyra is retro game emulation. It has a 720p 5" resistive touch screen (resistive due to more accurate tracking of a stylus). The Pyra runs on a 1.5GHz Omap 5 ARM Cortex A15 cpu (the cpu is on a socketed board so can be expanded later). Now also imagine it's small enough to fit in your pocket (the size of the first Nintendo DS). Imagine a linux based laptop with dual core cpu, touch screen, back lit keyboard, heap of ports (including usb2, usb3, hdmi and sata), sd and micro sd slots. The Pyra is the sequel to the Open Pandora.
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