If you read, it uses a Geforce 9400. Which isn't that bad of a GPU. It is a low end gaming rig.. if you wanna call it that lol. But it's a current day low end, which is pretty good for most people. It's not like using a low end from 4 years ago. The performance of low ends rise proportionate with high end.
Lol nice try. PC's get just as many games, if not more than a Console does. Then there's the MMO's which bumps the numbers up even more.
The online community for PC gaming is a lot more tight knit and is quite big also. Seeing as how online gaming started with the PC. Plus there's the large modding communities creating a more interactive and diverse online community.
You don't really see any large scale XBOX 360 or PS3 gaming competitions now do you? But there are a ...
Pretty good little package. Price of a console, but with tons more functionality and higher resolution capabilities.
Ouch, Some Americans are getting pretty shafted when it comes to internet.
I pay $40 Canadian a month for my 15Mbps, which comes with power boost bumping downloads up to around 25mbps for a while. And there's no real bandwidth cap. Just a limit that they ask you try not to go over, but nothing happens if you do. Only if your going like 60GB over the limit every month for a few months will you get a warning lol.
Would be awesome to have the kind of Internet they have in Japan ...
Wow I'm surprised this has such a low popularity rating on here. This story is a bout an amazing computer technology people. It brings us a hell of a lot closer to real time ray tracing in our games.
Good find artzm. It does look more 720p ratio. But then again, these are concept drawings I believe, not final product images.
Edit: Opened that concept image in Photoshop, and the proportions of the screen are quite close to that of a 720p screen.
@whitto: Firstly, the screen isn't HD. It's called Zune HD, because it's capable of playing and outputting HD content through it's HDMI port. A full 1080p movie that uses some compression fits under 5GB easily. The reason they need so much space on Blue-Ray/HDDVD is because they use an uncompressed video stream. So it takes up a hell of a lot of space.
Sure, compression robs a bit of the quality, but it's not very noticeable.
Also, if it does turn out to use the Nvidia...
Uhh, no it doesn't. Syncing does more actions than merely transferring files to the device. There's no possible way it can work faster than transferring the data itself. Because just dragging a song file or folder onto your device is transferring the files at the max transfer rate capable of the device.
When it comes to iPod's, syncing is used to create special data lists for the songs. The songs are renamed and have no actual order in the iPod's memory. It gives all your songs thes...
@raztad: That's exactly what I had said...
OLED screens of that size aren't that expensive. Not to mention the fact that they are printed, not built like normal displays.
Why would you bother with Sync? Apple players are pretty much the only players that requires you to sync your songs onto it. Devices like the Zune and most other MP3 players work as a storage device, where you just transfer the songs directly onto the device and organize them how you like. Sync is dependent on the computer software doing the syncing.
Who said it can't output HD? It merely doesn't have an HD screen.
It has an HDMI output connection to display HD content on HD screens. The processor itself is capable of playing HD content.
Why? There are a plethora of amazing award winning programs for Windows. You must no have done much looking for programs.
Because with Mac's there are less freedoms that would allow problems to arise that would result in you needing to do those things.
Not to mention since the market share of Apple computers is so low, hackers concentrate on making virus's for Windows. So basically your saying, use a Mac because they are the minority, yet if everyone uses it, then it's no longer the minority. And thus you will see an onslaught of virus's making their way to Mac's instead.
HDMI is part of the Tegra platform. The Tegra 650 platform itself cost's under $100 to make. The OLED screen is probably around $100 also. And 32GB of Flash is cheap these days. Apple just doesn't make it seem so because of how they price their players.
I could see the Zune HD hovering around the $300 mark.
You wish :P. It's merely a reworked from the ground up Vista framework.
The Tegra platform itself is rather cheap due to it's small chip size and VERY simple board configuration.
Indeed. When I saw the bit about it using Tegra.. I was like.. F*CK! Finally! A PMP/MID that uses the f*cking awesome Nvidia Tegra platform.
I was amazed when I saw the first videos of the Tegra a year ago. And have been wondering why no company has been smart enough to pick up on this awesome piece of tech.
http://www.nvidia.com/objec...
The GPU it uses is based on the Nvi...
Photoshop will run pretty well. But if your actually serious about getting into graphic design and animations, you should think about building a better rig instead. Like the one in the $500 guide that was posted up above for example, at least.