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[mali]

They are probably going to want to Bogart 100-150 of them to make sure they don't run out of replacements for Pandora's that turn out even after testing to be defective, although they said they had a lot of extra parts.

They have already planned to produce 200 more for that purpose. 3800 were pre-ordered, 4000 will be produced.

ED mentioned that they produce in 400 units batches, so all these numbers aren't really that important, I think. If mass production works, they will supposedly just continue with taking orders. I wouldn't be surprised if they take orders for the second batch while the last orders from the first batch are still being processed, if the supply chain is well established by then. Remember: Their profit will come with future batches, so they will want to get black figures fastest possible.

Edited by mali, 10 January 2009 - 01:23 PM.

[Pseudonym]

uhhh... save one for me

[GuSec]

Hmmm. How do you get a hand of those first batch-leftovers? Is it just a matter of ordering fast from the second batch, or do you need to do something special? (I'm so regretting not ordering the first time!)

[Pseudonym]

I geuss they're going to open ordering again. If you want to find out when, I suggest the newsletter. Sign up on openpandora.org

[Shadow of Chaos]

if they go in a matter of hours after being available i will probably miss it..

Btw, does anyone know what the system can actually be clocked to stably? because if it can go higher than 900mhz it will help hugely with dreamcast emulation.

[Chip]

We'll make an announcement via email and probably here as well when we're ready to take orders for first batch leftovers and second batch preorders. If you're interested, then I highly recommend you sign up for the newsletter on the official site.

Don't expect this announcement until the first batch has mostly (if not completely) shipped.

Btw, does anyone know what the system can actually be clocked to stably? because if it can go higher than 900mhz it will help hugely with dreamcast emulation.

900MHz is as high as the spec goes. Anything beyond that is At Your Own Risk. If you really wanted to, you could probably get another couple hundred MHz out of it, but no huge amount. Not enough to make the difference between "unplayable" and "playable" on something like a DC emulator.

[CC_machine]

900MHz is as high as the spec goes. Anything beyond that is At Your Own Risk. If you really wanted to, you could probably get another couple hundred MHz out of it, but no huge amount. Not enough to make the difference between "unplayable" and "playable" on something like a DC emulator.

Are we covered by warranty up to 900mhz, or beyond? With such a complex and expensive handheld I'm guessing the first, as far as I remember you could do anything to the GP2X except physically opening the case and still be covered (?) not sure on that one.

A 1.1Ghz portable does sound sweet though (and yes i know Mhz don't equate into FLOPS and other performance measures universally, but its still a cool bragging factor) ^^

[WizardStan]

900MHz is as high as the spec goes. Anything beyond that is At Your Own Risk. If you really wanted to, you could probably get another couple hundred MHz out of it, but no huge amount. Not enough to make the difference between "unplayable" and "playable" on something like a DC emulator.

Are we covered by warranty up to 900mhz, or beyond? With such a complex and expensive handheld I'm guessing the first, as far as I remember you could do anything to the GP2X except physically opening the case and still be covered (?) not sure on that one.

A 1.1Ghz portable does sound sweet though (and yes i know Mhz don't equate into FLOPS and other performance measures universally, but its still a cool bragging factor) ^^

As I understand, the OMAP is designed in such a way that overclocking will not cause permanent damage. If you clock it up about 1Ghz, and it can't handle it, it simply crashes the system. You then restart it and it falls back to default. If it does work, it will reduce the life of the CPU though, so don't run it that high for extended periods of time.

[Squidge]

The highest I've seen so far is 925Mhz, and that crashed after a few minutes of SNES emulation (at OPP5).

900Mhz really is the absolute maximum, and we are not sure yet how that will affect NEON and the DSP. With those going as well, the maximum may well drop a lot further.

So I wouldn't get your hopes up for 1Ghz and above.

[truekaiser]

well this monday it will be a week sense you said you started the reorders for north America.

if i don't get a email to reorder i will be emailing your staff.

[Hirolaser]

I signed up and got the email for the first batch but didn't preorder, however I have now decided I want one from the 100 - 200 spare from the first batch but when I try to sign up again, it says I'm already on it, does that mean I will get another email when the spare Pandoras are available or not?

Edited by Hirolaser, 13 January 2009 - 09:24 PM.

[PhillipJ]

Yes. As far as I know there's nothing else you (or I) need to or can do to get one of the extras from batch one.