Actually no, the A4 SoC in the iPad isn't a beast at all. It's a shitty little Arm Cortex A8 (with some motherboard controllers integrated) that's used in many phones and PMP's.
@valanceer:
There aren't any products yet with this in it, or anything like it. Sure there are products with OLED type screens. The Zune HD uses an AMOLED screen, but it's nowhere near as thin as this. It's a stiff thick screen like an LED one, that cannot be bent or it will break. Same with the TV's your talking about.
What's being shown off here is a screen that is thinner than paper, and can be bent to extreme angles and still function....
Grand Nukem 5
Uh.. It's not so much about being lazy, but about feature sets. Direct3D provides a much better feature set and cross API. Not to mention the new tessellation engines this new generation of cards has that's built for the DX11 spec.
@smurfee:
Look into what DirectX 11 is bringing in terms of multi-threading. Microsoft has made it much easier for developers to implement a good amount of multi-threading into a game.
The iPhone OS 4 is bringing multitasking to the iPad and the last 2 iPhone gen's. But still, the iPad is not a gaming device. It uses the same f*cking processors as the iPhone. And they are making a ridiculous markup on the hardware cost.
Windows 7 hasn't crashed on me once, And I've been using it since the RC back in October. And I don't get any virus's, because I know what not to click on and how to surf the web safely.
People need to be better taught on how to stay safe on the net.
Firefox with AdBlock Plus & NoScript will prevent pretty much all web based virus's. And give you control over what does and doesn't load on a page.
It's not that Windows sucks, but merely that it is tar...
Windows 7 is more stable than XP, and requires about the same specs, while still running faster too. I doubt you've actually used Windows 7 for any real period of time.
And why do you hate MS?
Rofl, nope.
http://gizmodo.com/5510143/...
Read it and weep Apple fanboy.
The way the new Engine works allow for simultaneous creation on all 3 plats. (PC/360/PS3). The 360 will look good too, they already showed off videos of the PS3/360 running it. It's merely that the PS3 has some extra cores to handle a bit higher graphics. But neither can trump the PC version of course. Especially with such a small amount of RAM in the consoles.
@vhero:
Why would they port it after all the time they spent creating a PS3 version of the CryEngine 3?
All the nay-sayers here seem to not of heard that Crytek's upcoming CryEngine 3 has been optimized for the PC/360/PS3. With the creation process allowing you to easily export to which platform you'd like. The reason normal multi-plat games don't usually look good is because the people making them aren't engine developers, their just game developers. And so they start ...
@greatjimbo78 & ReBurn:
Because Plasma TV's usually run at a higher refresh rate than LCD's. But does that mean existing Plasma's can do 3D?, I don't know.
http://www.plasmatvbuyinggu...
http://gizmodo.com/5442012/...
@Qui-Gon Jim:
That's only 1 of the ways.
HoloVizio created a better and more interesting one. That actually has multiple viewing angles also, so you could have movies with more than with like 8 angles, instead of just 2 for the main 3D image.
http://www.holografika.com/
http://gizmodo.com/5...
Converting 2D images to 3D images doesn't work very well. It's a bit of a gimmick, at least compared to real 3D image shots.
If the 6xxx series is the last you had installed, then you have no real say in the quality of Nvidia GPU's. Back then their R&D was a lot less than it is now and their cards weren't all that good. But now their quality is the best, and their drivers are considered the least buggy and most stable compared to ATI's. To vow never to use Nvidia based on one of their worst cards from almost 6 years ago is a bit ridiculous and unfair. Unified shaders didn't even come until the 8xxx series.
@MetalFreakMike:
You don't understand. You compared Nvidia to Intel in saying Nvidia charges too much for their products. When that's not true at all from an actual material perspective. Sure for the amount of performance in gaming you get for the price it may be pricier than ATI's. But again, this isn't a freaking choice by Nvidia. Where as with Intel it is a choice due to their popularity/reputation, (plus they spend a lot more on R&D). With Nvidia the higher price is almos...
@vulcanproject:
Nvidia doesn't have to make them. Other companies can, like ASUS. Who if you recall made a full powered GTX 295 called the ASUS Mars, which used 2x8pin connectors and had a max TDP of 375W.
It's not too big of a deal to break the PCI-E spec. It's not like any OEM's have these high end cards in mind for use anyways lol.
As for people not usually having 2x8pin's, that would be true if we were talking about the low end and mainstream market. But when...
@vulcanproject:
The max TDP for the 470 is actually 215w, not 230w. And the 480 is 250w.
470 has 32 less cores, 4 less TMU's and 8 less ROP's. Only 1.28GB of RAM, instead of 1.536GB. And lower clocks all around.
The 5870 has a max TDP of 188w. So while a dual 470 card would be tough, it is possible. And if all else fails, they could make it a dual 8-pin card which would give it just enough extra juice, instead of 6+8. Even the 5970 at it's 294w only use...
Derp dee derp, look, another person who doesn't understand the fact of
"chip size = general price range".
Nvidia's chips are much bigger than ATI's. It's not that Nvidia "chooses" to price them higher. It's that Nvidia HAS TO if they want to cover the much higher manufacturing cost's that come with a bigger chip.
The bigger the chip, the less chips per wafer, and thus the less chips to sell per wafer. Doesn't matter how big your chip is, ea...
Yeah. Especially their QRIO robot, it was freaking amazing. Light years ahead of ASIMO, even today. Sadly they had to cut it's funding back when they we're trying to fix the bleeding of money they we're going through many years ago. :(