Mobile D1/D2/D3?

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:20 pm

An x86 handheld. Love this nano-ITX stuff.

EDIT: Appendage.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:44 pm

wonder if it has a CDROM.

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon May 24, 2004 11:38 pm

wow, i would love one of these.
it'd be easy to build yourself too, since most parts are standard (hdd, ram, batterys, USB everything else).

look at the size of it next to that mouse. wow

i'd play all my favourite games

all you'd need is www.the-underdogs.org and you'd be set.

i feel all tingly

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue May 25, 2004 9:09 am

roid wrote:i feel all tingly

That's puberty kicking in... Don't worry, it's normal.. just not so late in life..

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Tue May 25, 2004 10:38 am

Ferno wrote:wonder if it has a CDROM.

I was wondering that too, it wouldn't be much use without it. I was thinking that they could provide some sort of caching mechanism - a way to copy CDROMs for the current games you're playing to the unit, in a secure way that wouldn't violate DRM rules for games with copy protection. If it's really just running Windows you might be able to hack this yourself, but if they want to make this available for the masses, it needs to be easier than that.

This would assume a PC or a standalone CDROM to dock with - kinda like Pocket PC.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue May 25, 2004 10:56 am

maybe.

now if that's the case i wouldn't be suprised to see games shipped on CF cards for that thing.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue May 25, 2004 3:43 pm

Apparently it has slots for SmartMedia and CompactFlash. There's no CD drive, but there's a 20 GB HDD (think iPod) and you purchase or rent games that you download over the Internet.

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:17 pm

That's not such a bad setup. games.yahoo has a bunch of 100-500MB games that you can rent for three days at $5 a pop... so the precendent of download and play w/o CD media is solved.

Also, the guy behind this is an Xbox hacker, so you might expect this thing to be hacker-friendly.

How much would you be willing to pay for this little unit? I could see forking $300 at most for it.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed May 26, 2004 12:44 am

nothing over $200.

needs to be priced competitively with the Gameboy SP.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:47 am

i don't think puberty is sposed to make you tingly stress.
see a doc k.

ferny wrote:needs to be priced competitively with the Gameboy SP.

bah, screw that, this portable thing can play the world's biggest collection of games. sweet old PC games. also you coudl run an emulator on it for snes, mame, whatever.

i'd pay top dollar for this thing.
(i'd also hook up some foldable solar panels to it... hmm, maybe as well as some EMP sheilding

, hey you can't be too careful these days

. or does this jsut show how unbalanced i am with my old games. ahh my prettys *strokes collection of old games*)