Gadget Lust Thread

[Taosaur]

I hit a few stumbling blocks, but the Nook is good to go--the stock OS was underwhelming, so I set up CyanogenMod 7 (Android 2.3 Gingerbread) to boot from a 16GB MicroSD. Originally, booting from SD was just to try out the OS, but I suspect the SD I picked up actually gets faster small-block writes than the Nook's on-board flash. In any case, CM7 is running way faster than the stock OS even without overclocks, so I'm leaving it as-is. ...not ideal for typing... Yes, exactly Hence you purchase one if typing is a low priority, or at least you'd prefer not to have a keyboard hanging off the thing at all times--I may pick up a bluetooth keyboard at some point for travel, but anyone who texts will have no trouble taking notes or making short comments on a 7" device.

[Supernova]

In any case, CM7 is running way faster than the stock OS even without overclocks, so I'm leaving it as-is. Are you suggesting that you would overclock a Nook? All my gadget lust is after music gear. Particularly a MIDI controller or recording gear.

[Taosaur]

Are you suggesting that you would overclock a Nook? If you continue reading, you'll find that I have overclocked a Nook (Color--as in the baby tablet, not the e-ink reader), from stock 800Mhz to 1.3Ghz max, and am running a more advanced (and complete) Android build than what comes in the box. Many of the people picking up NCs aren't doing so for the stock functionality, but because the hardware is capable of much much more and there's an active community of programmers taking advantage of that potential and sharing their work. Even a lot of people who do get the NC just because it's an e-reader with a great color screen end up rooting, dual-booting or replacing the OS before long, when they start to get an inkling of how much more the machine could do (and let's face it, how many more free apps they could have ). The only thing it's lacking that would really open it up is USB hosting, which by all accounts should be possible, but no one's made much progress with it. There is bluetooth for peripherals, and of course WiFi for remote access to storage, but like a lot of people I already have a lot of USB gadgets, and not much bluetooth.