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So you guys think I belong to the meditation thread?
Possibly. I'm scared shitless of what's going on there. I get the impression that I spent a lot of money (I ebayed my Zaurus for this!) on the wrong device. I've spent enough time with programmers. My educated guess is that the firmware difference between the eFlyBook and our 2.5 is arinc.ipk. I just makes no sense to develop largely different firmwares on this system.
The picture in my head is that somebody looked an energy consumptions and figured the device could theoretically have about 15 hours battery if everything was turned off when not needed. And some sales guy / manager translated this to "work week times 3 hours", completely ignoring that "theoretically" doesn't mean "really". And now they struggled to increase battery time by addressing the worst energy consumer (cpu), proclaimed it'd by "8 hours", later reduce it to "greatly" and finally just get one additional hour. And next week they simply remove the 3xweek-announement from their website, just like they did with DRM.
And if I'm sitting here in some month with an Iliad with 5-8 hours battery and xpdf rendering my pages in 20 seconds, I truly spent an awful amount of money for something that's not nearly worth it.
And so far, all my pessimistic assumptions came true (or were too optimistic).
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