pferguso
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The Pandora is a hacker's gadget. It doesn't need silkscreening. Cummon, March 22nd!
In some places this would actually be pretty hard and add substantial cost. This lettering would be perpendicular to the mold pull meaning there would need to be articulating sliding mold parts to move in and out. This adds ALLOT of cost to molds, and due to the complexity, would mean a pretty big delay. We don't think you want to wait 3 months for lettering?DaMummy said:so how hard would it have been to take away the silkscreen and include all the letters and/or symbols as part of the case molds?
heeey now, no need to take it out on optimus. me and my army of 10 optimuses will take you on any time *gnashes teeth*Mjlink said:Go cry in your corner with your Optimus Prime, take a few LEDs with you and a sharpie so you can figure out which is which.
Relax grl, ungnash them sweet choppers and inhale. Thats it. Tell those 10 Optimi to take these energon cubes and leave us alone.RenegadeChic said:heeey now, no need to take it out on optimus. me and my army of 10 optimuses will take you on any time *gnashes teeth*Mjlink said:Go cry in your corner with your Optimus Prime, take a few LEDs with you and a sharpie so you can figure out which is which.
Line O said:I'm happy to take my Pandora however I can get it, and I understand (and agree with) the reasonings behind the decision not to risk attempting silkscreening, and the disappointment I feel at the loss of the silkscreening will be overcome very soon after unwrapping my new baby and booting into a sweet lil linux distro, but whether it looks cooler or not without it we're just going to have to deal with the fact that the price of being an early adopter of this new handheld is to receive an unfinished machine.
A bit of a shame, that's all.
WizardStan said:I can't say I'm not at least somewhat disappointed. It's not even about whether it's necessary or not, it just had this "feeling" of being more complete with the silkscreening. I look at my DS: power, headphones, volume, are marked (not the LEDs though). My camera is fully labeled. My RC truck is mostly labeled. My speakers and wireless headphones are labeled. I look around, everything seems to have at least some form of silk screening, whether they need it or not. I realize we don't need the power switch to be marked, but it feels odd when I think about it compared to all the other electronics I have that do have it marked.
intense_mc said:Why not make a stickers sheet? Wouldn't affect the Pandora manufacturing process and you could send it out later to those who request it.
Charge £1 if you must.
As far as I'm concerned, the "perfection" thing went out the window when they took the Chinese guy's word that the cases look like shit just because of the demo production (especially since Rev2 looked better.) Let's take bets on how many pandoras are gonna have holes thru the back where the hinges are supposed to beMonk said:I'm frankly torn between ragging on OP endlessly about what a mess this whole thing has been, and praising them for waking up to how badly they've been doing it and actually making changes to effect some chance of actually delivering the kit. At least we can stop worrying that they're intent on an unachievable "perfection" that can never be met - one ghost that has dogged this project which can finally be put to rest.
word. I foretold this as well.r00tw00t said:No silkscreen!? Good decision, it was written "major delay" all over it- I had foreseen it.
rabidpoobear said:As far as I'm concerned, the "perfection" thing went out the window when they took the Chinese guy's word that the cases look like shit just because of the demo production (especially since Rev2 looked better.) Let's take bets on how many pandoras are gonna have holes thru the back where the hinges are supposed to beMonk said:I'm frankly torn between ragging on OP endlessly about what a mess this whole thing has been, and praising them for waking up to how badly they've been doing it and actually making changes to effect some chance of actually delivering the kit. At least we can stop worrying that they're intent on an unachievable "perfection" that can never be met - one ghost that has dogged this project which can finally be put to rest.![]()
True.Monk said:rabidpoobear said:As far as I'm concerned, the "perfection" thing went out the window when they took the Chinese guy's word that the cases look like shit just because of the demo production (especially since Rev2 looked better.) Let's take bets on how many pandoras are gonna have holes thru the back where the hinges are supposed to beMonk said:I'm frankly torn between ragging on OP endlessly about what a mess this whole thing has been, and praising them for waking up to how badly they've been doing it and actually making changes to effect some chance of actually delivering the kit. At least we can stop worrying that they're intent on an unachievable "perfection" that can never be met - one ghost that has dogged this project which can finally be put to rest.![]()
I can be positive here! Yay (and thanks).
While I seee what you're saying, I sortof disagree on the basis that if MP cases come trhough looking anything remotely like those samples, I expect MWeston to man-up and slap the Chinese Factory manager silly. At the very least Faith and his interpreter pal will run for the Pakistani jills so that they can learn how to hide from OpenPandoraian wrath.
You are 100% rightrabidpoobear said:Also I'm like 90% sure his name is Fatih not Faith. But everyone's been typing Faith so I'm not sure if I read it wrong initially or if all you guys are wrong...![]()