skyeyemachine
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How is the battery holding up, in fact? Is it lasting the full ten-hours-or-so that was expected based on your usage?
skyeyemachine said:How is the battery holding up, in fact? Is it lasting the full ten-hours-or-so that was expected based on your usage?
craigix said:OpenTheBox said:Craigix, how is the battery level after the few hours of play?
How warm is the unit after your extensive play?
Thanks!
The unit does not get hot at all. I've used the Pandora for about 7 hours so far.
craigix said:skyeyemachine said:How is the battery holding up, in fact? Is it lasting the full ten-hours-or-so that was expected based on your usage?
It's expected to last over 10 hours.
We didn't lie with our battery stats like so many other companies do.
You would have to have the WIFI on constantly for it to drop severely.
Also, that's not the back room.
craigix said:Ed may well do a test with the wifi left on.
I'd expect it to drop to around 6 hours with it on, wifi is pretty hungry.
craigix said:Sorry, I didn't mean to sound confrontational.
I just got irritated by an advert for a laptop with outrageous claims of battery life, along with the little * which revealed the totally unusable, crippled conditions required to actually get anything like they were claiming.
There needs to be some laws about battery life claims similar to MPG figures. Ie Independent tests.
You could do what desertbus.org did, with one live feed from the pandora's tv-out, and another of you playing.craigix said:The problem with a tripod/webcam etc. is that unless it was strapped to my head you just end up with rubbish footage of the back of the Pandora.
It has to be a FP view to get the real experience.
j.pickens said:F5, F5, F5.....
Ahhh! the "P" virus is spreading already!!! :lol:Mr.Confuzed said:*snip*
Also, I'd be expecting strangers showing up at your door. *Craigix looks outside* Oh shiii... *zombies fill his yard*
BTW, does Pandora have a temperature sensor inside CPU or elsewhere?craigix said:The unit does not get hot at all. I've used the Pandora for about 7 hours so far.
Vitel said:BTW, does Pandora have a temperature sensor inside CPU or elsewhere?craigix said:The unit does not get hot at all. I've used the Pandora for about 7 hours so far.
craigix said:Vitel said:BTW, does Pandora have a temperature sensor inside CPU or elsewhere?craigix said:The unit does not get hot at all. I've used the Pandora for about 7 hours so far.
The Pandora CPU isn't the kind which overheats, it's not an X86 or 'Intel' CPU. It's an ARM.
If it did somehow overheat it would just crash and reset.
Oh and the battery has internal protection.