Windows CE drivers for the OMAP are freely available on Texas Instruments web site, FYI. As for "why Windows CE", outside of Flash playback (which has already been covered) I can think of a few other reasons.
Silverlight
Microsoft Office
WMV, WMA playback (legally)...
I was thinking in more generalized terms that there are enough differences between an X86-based computer and the ARM-based pandora that we should be carefull about making too many assumptions about the pandora not needing a swap space just because most laptops and desktops don't.
Personally, I...
I believe I saw on here in an earlier post that there were linux drviers available for the PowerVR as a binary blob. Closed source, but better than nothing. As I understand it, the only "processor" that will not be working out of the box is the DSP (used for media playback). They have to move...
For anyone who is interested in comparing the graphics capabilities between the OMAP's PowerVR SGX530 and the Snapdragon's AMD Z430 the following links provide some information.
AMD z430
http://www.glbenchmark.com/resultdetails.jsp?benchmark=glpro11&resultid=9480443&D=LGE
PowerVR SGX530...
If you do a little bit more looking into those "1GHz" Snapdragon's you'll discover that they have a really shitty graphics chip with them. The overall computing power of the OMAP and the Snapdragon are about the same. The OMAP is better at high-graphics applications which makes it the better...