Nvidia Tegra Promises 1080p Video, 25-day Music

[Marcus Yam]

Nvidia Tegra hits Computex.

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[customisbetter]

Maybe they are referring to Flash games display 46 frames per second...

 

[Tindytim]

They don't really say much about the conditions, so I don't see the point in speculating unless they plan on elaborating on the conditions that 46 frames were stated from (is that an average?).

I mean, just look at the Ion platform, and what it could do, and the Atom was the bottleneck in such applications.

 

[apmyhr]

Am I missing something or did they fail to mention what battery size/type and conditions they used to come up with these numbers?

 

[mrubermonkey]

Doom II at 46 FPS. A dream come true.

 

[sunraycer]

Previous articles stated that Tegra is an ARM based IC. That means no Windows XP/Vista/7 correct? These will need to be Linux or Windows CE netbooks...

 

[Guest]

The battery is a 12V car battery. There's a backpack type accessory, not to be confused with a ghostbusters backpack.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Usually when Nvidia mentions FPS they mean some of the higher end games like Timeshift CoD5 and the like.

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Usually when Nvidia mentions FPS they mean some of the higher end games like Timeshift CoD5 and the like.[/citation]
All of those games are x86, this is an ARM processor.

I thought they were only going to use this in phones, and other portable hand held devices (Game consoles?). I netbook seems rather silly to me.

 

[lamorpa]

"A dozen new MIDs debuted(sic) at Computex today using Tegra, except that(sic) they weren’t quite(sic) the devices we ?(sic) expecting to get the Tegra-(sic)treatment."

 

[The Schnoz]

But can it play Crysis at 46 FPS? Someone had to ask....

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]All of those games are x86, this is an ARM processor.I thought they were only going to use this in phones, and other portable hand held devices (Game consoles?). I netbook seems rather silly to me.[/citation]
Depends on what you consider a netbook to be and what it should be used for. If you just need a device that can handle email, web browsing, word processing, and IM/chat, but can't stand to do all that on a tiny Blackberry, then an ARM-based netbook is perfect. The Atom is a little over-kill for the uses I described above, and a lot of under-kill for just about anything else.