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	kingoddball	2011-05-12 , 10:01
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Hello!

I am swapping my Beagleboard RevC4 for a PandaBoard tomorrow

My Beagle is sexy and fully setup (super-jumbo) and I'm swapping for a fresh new (brand new) PandaBoard!!

http://www.pandaboard.org/

Anyone here have one??

Please let me know if there is anything I need to know or just some info?

I know specs and basics.. I just have not met or spoke with anyone about these, yet.

I have been a beagle fan for years, but I thought I'd like a speed upgrade and some new tech to play with (OMAP4

).

Edit: For those not in the "know". This is a DUAL Core 1GHZ OMAP4 with 1GB RAM!

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	dr_frost_dk	2011-05-12 , 10:55
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Damm this is a nice board.

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	kingoddball	2011-05-12 , 11:21
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Yeah man!! Looks great and for what I've seen on the net.. Damn powerful and fast! Heat was an issue on earlier builds... I wonder how the Optimus X2 is handing the heat on the OMAP4!

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	dr_frost_dk	2011-05-12 , 11:39
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only thing missing is a faster storage, would prefer a sata ssd solution, or even just a CF card slot, they are pretty fast, before i bought SSD's like the vertex & vertex 2, i made my own out of 4x 266x speed CF cards giving almost the same speed as the vertex 2.

I saw a video of this board booting 11.04 and it was ok quick, but it would be seriously fast with a 600x speed CF with 32GB or more.

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	kingoddball	2011-05-14 , 08:57
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I have my Panda!!

I have added a heatsink to the OMAP4 as it over heats pretty bad... Design flaw maybe...

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shadowjk	2011-05-14 , 14:39
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Overheats as in crashes and stops working?

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	kingoddball	2011-05-14 , 23:14
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Well mine has not crashed, but it is hotter than my beagle was.
If you have a look around google there are many posts about people with overheating pandas...

Mine "seems" ok.. Heatsink looks cool though...

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shadowjk	2011-05-15 , 01:29
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I'm just wondering about the use of the word "overheating" here. It might be running inside the thermal specifications. Like, typical Intel CPUs are specced to run up to 75C or something, and GPUs run up to 105C or thereabouts without problems...

(And then people go touch chips, depositing body fat in the form of fingerprints, screwing things up)