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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: RandyT on May 06, 2011, 02:58:29 pm ---
The first thing that comes to mind when I see this is "Cell phone, minus the phone", not "PC on a USB Stick".  Still, if it can run emus and game applications better than the current crop of handheld devices, at a price point that low, it would be quite a nifty device, and open a lot of possibilities.  But if it's just a "dingoo" minus the screen and controls, then it's probably not worth getting terribly excited about.  It'll probably cost more by time it sees light of day as well, if it ever does.

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What he said.  The use of a hdmi port pretty much negates it's use as a low cost computer for third world nations as well. 

Now if you wanted to put... lets say a bootlegged version of pacman specifically designed for the device on it it might work for that... but something as complex as mame, or even a multi-game emu is going to be too beefy to ever run on that.  Processors aren't everything you know... there are still concerns like ram, video ram, storage space, ect...  Even if it's expandable via the usb port by the time you add all of that in it'll be too costly and big to be practical. 

Necro:
This is cheaper than a damn Arduino...which is nuts.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 06, 2011, 05:06:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: RandyT on May 06, 2011, 02:58:29 pm ---
The first thing that comes to mind when I see this is "Cell phone, minus the phone", not "PC on a USB Stick".  Still, if it can run emus and game applications better than the current crop of handheld devices, at a price point that low, it would be quite a nifty device, and open a lot of possibilities.  But if it's just a "dingoo" minus the screen and controls, then it's probably not worth getting terribly excited about.  It'll probably cost more by time it sees light of day as well, if it ever does.

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What he said.  The use of a hdmi port pretty much negates it's use as a low cost computer for third world nations as well. 

Now if you wanted to put... lets say a bootlegged version of pacman specifically designed for the device on it it might work for that... but something as complex as mame, or even a multi-game emu is going to be too beefy to ever run on that.  Processors aren't everything you know... there are still concerns like ram, video ram, storage space, ect...  Even if it's expandable via the usb port by the time you add all of that in it'll be too costly and big to be practical. 

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My Original XDA which was an ARM Cpu ran at 200 mhz and it played Mame just fine at full speed.  Not HD, but you can bring that HDMI port down to VGA land very easily.

Gray_Area:
.....the trend, and arguably a preferrable one, is devices becoming so sophisticated, knowing how they function at a fundamental level would impede, or at least be irrelevant to, their use. This is already much the case.

alfonzotan:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 06, 2011, 05:26:27 pm ---Oh c'mon.  We were running Ms PacMan at full speed on 386s back in the 90s before MAME turned into a bloatware nightmare that accurately emulates mah jong.



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Ding-ding-ding.  The early versions of MacMAME ran just fine on a 120MHz PowerPC 601.  A throwaway DVD player has more juice than that these days.

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