Can it play WoW? Then no...it cannot.
But in seriousness.. It's a freaking Apple computer product. Perhaps in a universe where Apple had majority desktop computer share, then this story might have some substance. But even then, this thing is just an overgrown iPod Touch. It can't really even multi-task. This thing is not a tablet computer. It is a MID/PMP. (Mobile Internet Device/Portable Media Player). And a very overpriced one at that. Half the cost of these things is profit fo...
The "glassy" stuff is part of Windows 7's style. It's just how regular windows are rendered. If your still using Windows XP, then your Firefox 4 isn't going to have that glassy look. But it will still have the same layout for the most part.
Incredibly stupid question to ask. Of course they are. When you have products that go on a 1 year reiteration cycle you are always planning the next version. Hell, they are most likely already planning the third version also and thinking up ideas for the 4th.
@feelintheflow:
Under the logic of the battery life argument, you could then argue that there shouldn't be any sort of music or video support either. As listening to music or watching videos drastically decreases battery life also.
Doesn't matter how well HTML 5 get's adopted.
1.) It still doesn't have anywhere near the feature set of Flash.
2.) So much of the world wide web has integrated Flash/Java content, and there's no way that even 1/10 of it would be ported over to HTML 5 within 5 years.
It's just plain foolish, ignorant and greedy to not implement flash. Under the logic of the battery life argument, you could then argue that there shouldn't be any sort of music or video sup...
Same reason their charging $130 extra for the 3G version, which cost's them less than $10 extra to make over the non-3G version.
$130 more for the 3G version. Epic f*cking rip off. It cost's them less than $10 ins hardware and manufacturing cost's to add the 3G components. This is some Apple Tax taken to the extreme.
Plus this thing still can't freaking multi-task. Your only allowed to do one thing at a time. Can't for example listen to music while writing a message.
@mauleriscool: Actually it would. Assuming OnLive rented a server space somewhere in Japan also, as they have in the USA. Japan is a highly interconnected with fiber-optic internet flowing all throughout the city. They have one of the highest average consumer internet speeds.
Rofl. It's not DSL then if it's fiber optic. Of course your getting better ping than Cable. DSL uses phone lines. Cable uses more robust cable lines. And Fiber Optics use cables filled with clear plastic lines that transmit using light instead of electricity.
While the idea is good, the lag will never be gone until everyone has fiber-optic lines. And even then, we also need a better global network. Currently even with say Verizon FIOS, you'll get latencies of up around 100ms depending on the location your connecting too. And with average latencies being in the 30-60ms. Then when it reach's Onlive's servers there's a bit more average latency. Then the signal is sent back down the same route with the first latency amount added on again.
So...
No. It's the future of casual gaming.
This kind of service destroys the idea of user run servers with custom maps and whatnot that is the core of much PC online gaming. So it will never be able to replace PC gaming. It will merely make gaming more accessible to poorer people. Once internet connections good enough for it are cheap enough for those people lol. But by then good enough processing power will be quite cheap also. So meh.. It's a good concept and it has it's market's b...
Yay for Major_Tom and his constant trolling and lack of actual knowledge on this subject!
AMD is not ahead in innovation in any way. DX11 isn't ATI's innovation. Nvidia will be supporting it too. And other than DX11 ATI doesn't have anything really. Eyefinity is about as close to innovation as ATI has come lately. ATI's architecture is bland. There's nothing innovative about it. But if you read everything that's implemented in Fermi's architecture there are many great innovations th...
Nope. I wasn't even into computer technology all that much back then.
If you can't understand why GPU accelerated Tessellation and displacement mapping will be awesome for games, then you really have no business even commenting on these topics. Makes me think you really are just a troll.
@vulcanproject: Oh I know fully well what they are. It's not like those 2 paragraphs I quoted are the only thing I've ever read about it. I think it's you who needs to learn more about it. It feels like you get your info from Charlie. Try going and reading up a little more on it. Nvidia wouldn't be boasting about the Tessellation at CES if it was sh*tty. They showed off some demo's with very high tessellation that ran well, not just the Unigine.
A few months from now you'll be ea...
@Cliff Forster: Don't know where you get your info but your completely wrong. They showed off a system with 3 working GF100's inside. The supersonic sled demo they showed off was only running on a single GF100. And they said the demo will be shipping with all cards.
This is just another fluff piece from Charlie to try and hurt Nvidia's chances.
I can assure you that ATI's next generation won't have the same feature set. It takes years to develop a new GPU architecture. ATI doesn't have the time to copy all the innovations Nvidia has made in Fermi. And since the next generation coming up is ATI's new architecture they are going to be stuck with whatever they already designed for a few generations after. So there isn't too much they can do to steal Nvidia's thunder on the computing side.
In terms of DX11 games out sure. But what is your point? Or do you just like to troll.
The hardware needs to be made available for developers to even think about switching to DX11. So stop acting like this is all pointless and stupid.
Sigh you are so wrong. You extrapolated that merely from semantics in this article.
Try reading the more in-depth one from ABT.
"As we look deeper, we can see that Fermi’s tessellation engine is impressive. It is not something just “tacked on” to GT200. NVIDIA saw early on that if they only made incremental changes to GT200, they would run into severe bottlenecks. Simply adding tessellation to GT200 would lead to intolerable geometry bottlenecks. They tell us th...
Yeah, another great thing:
"On the GT200 the TMUs ran at the GPU’s core clock; on the GF100 they run at a higher clock, which allows them to perform more work in the same amount of time. nVidia’s numbers show 40% to 70% higher texturing performance than the GT200, despite having much fewer TMUs."
And apparently their tessellation implementation is much better than ATI's. Nvidia is looking to have a real winner on their hands here if the bench's hold true. And even...
Yeah, there's something more awesome coming out. Notion Ink's: Adam.
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So much more awesome. Plus it uses Tegra 2 which pwns what's in the iPad.