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Pandora - The DS on steroids - opens pre-orders [FAPPITY]
wardrox \| 7:04 AM on 10.01.2008	25 comments

It may not be very well known, but the Pandora hand-held is now available to pre-order for £200 (current US exchange rate: about $5 million). It boasts hardware on par with the original Xbox as well as the fact that if you buy this, chances are you will never have to pay for software for it.

You see, the whole project is open source. As it stands, Pandora comes with the popular Ubuntu OS and is specifically designed to run free-emulators on free-Linux, using up all of your free-time. Currently the devs say it is able to emulate anything from the PS1 older.

With 2 SD slots you could theoretically have up to 64 Gig of ROMs stashed away in this thing, as well as music/films/other software. I would write more about its excellent features and software, or you could just fap over the picture and read the wikipedia entry.

Yes, you do want one.

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25 comments | showing # 1 to 25

Gemsi says:
(# 0) on 10/01/2008 07:28

Dammit wardrox, I've been taunting myself that I would to get one of the first batch since the pre orders were announced, and now i'm being taunted here, having a lack of money sucks, I can't wait until the next batch

CelicaCrazed says:
(# 1) on 10/01/2008 07:43

Wouldn't it be more like a GBA SP on roids?? Also, do want!!

Kryptinite says:
(# 2) on 10/01/2008 07:49

I'm actually thinking about getting this :).

nebones says:
(# 3) on 10/01/2008 07:49

Buy me it.

njsykora says:
(# 4) on 10/01/2008 08:42

Thinking hard about it, having something like that for movies would be freaking epic.

njsykora says:
(# 5) on 10/01/2008 08:44

Never mind, site's been annihilated. No way in hell of getting a pre-order unless you were waiting for this obsessively.

Phantom Spaceman says:
(# 6) on 10/01/2008 08:52

Dang, where am I gonna come up with 200 cursive L's?

Cataract says:
(# 7) on 10/01/2008 09:17

You had me until you mentioned the price and Ubuntu.

Cataract says:
(# 8) on 10/01/2008 09:53

Also, with the (current) exchange rate, this puts the Pandora at about $300 USD, the price of a Pro model 360.

Gibbo says:
(# 9) on 10/01/2008 10:11

If only money grew on trees.

REMiXXX says:
(# 10) on 10/01/2008 10:35

I have a GP2X, a very early one, and that thing is awesome.

This is in the pile of do want.

REMiXXX says:
(# 11) on 10/01/2008 10:43

(pandora does not come with Ubuntu, I'm pretty sure, but it does run on it)

McSnow says:
(# 12) on 10/01/2008 10:49

You could almost buy two 360s for that price!

king3vbo says:
(# 13) on 10/01/2008 11:19

FAP

Too bad I don't have any money

Zen Albatross says:
(# 14) on 10/01/2008 11:41

200 quid? That's like a gajillion Amerika Dollars! ;_; Do waaaaant.

Phantom Spaceman says:
(# 15) on 10/01/2008 11:45

How are you supposed to play games on it if it's Linux-based?

ScottyG says:
(# 16) on 10/01/2008 11:52

Oh, and it's SDHC too! <3

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I'm very curious what the battery life on that is.

REMiXXX says:
(# 17) on 10/01/2008 12:51

I actually think I'm just about to buy this.

I will report back.

Remo says:
(# 18) on 10/01/2008 13:12

I'd like to get one, but the thing looks to damn awkward to hold.

njsykora says:
(# 19) on 10/01/2008 13:17

@ScottyG

Battery life is around 10 hours from what I know.

keener says:
(# 20) on 10/01/2008 18:54

there is also this thing, which looks pretty rad for nes/snes/gba/genesis/etc type games.

http://www.pmptoday.com/2008/09/25/oppo-smart-g11-muse-introduced/

CypherVR says:
(# 21) on 10/01/2008 19:14

FAP!

MEE says:
(# 22) on 10/02/2008 21:44

i want to make love to it... until it hurts...

REMiXXX says:
(# 23) on 10/03/2008 07:49

When I get home I should have this ordered.

From Santa.

REMiXXX says:
(# 24) on 10/03/2008 13:22

Yeah, I now have one preorder.

FRICKIN SWEET!

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