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- DellMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Why isnt it in wide screen?
- mxpxpx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15why does anything under 1 GB even support video? 512mb is stupidly small
- omegadan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Id like to be the first to point out that the signal to noise ratio is limited by the quality of the DACs and the signal path ... and hasn't much to do with processing power
- longofest, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11good question... why isn't the 5G iPod widescreen? We may find out when we die, but even then who knows... Stupid decisions are made every day, and then you die...
- rageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Isn't the iPod more or less a dualcore anyway? Thought they contained two ARM cores.
- TheBeaver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Dual Core != Better Sound
Dual Core = Marketing Buzzword - patrickloggins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yuck. Put it in a decent player to start.
- Tomholius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7why is the headphone jack on the side? If you put it in your pocket it will keep comming unplugged or bent.
- stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7... And the battery lasts a whole 3 minutes!
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if only it actually ran at the full 333mhz and not the stripped down 222mhz.
- danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pretty sad that this article has gotten so many diggs! The iPod is dual-core but who cares!!!
- sorrodos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, the PortalPlayer chips are dual-core.
Not to mention, the video iPod has a separate processor dedicated to video decoding. - EliColburn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3we'll need new formats to fit the screen.
this won't succeed - chmod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is kind of along the same lines that I was thinking. The article linked even says that the info is a "best guess" as far as the translation goes, so the poster automatically assumes that it is completely true, or am I just missing something in the article?
Plus, for a device that small (not to mention fairly dedicated) it doesn't seem like a dual core player is necessary for much of any reason. Perhaps they should instead be looking into better screens, or larger storage capacity. Dual core has just become another buzz word that lulls the masses into thinking a device is somehow better. Give me a few minutes, then everyone can digg the article I'm about to write about my new and improved dual core toaster with rss and blogging, hyperthreading, widescreen hd, hi-fi surround sound, something oled, and a slick new user interface I inadvertently created while banging two rocks together. It doesn't really toast, but I'm going to call that a "feature". Wait a minute.... that sounds sort of cool. - Greg-J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
Mirror of the screenshots:
http://www.prntscrn.net/img.php?img=DualCoreMP31.jpg
http://www.prntscrn.net/img.php?img=DualCoreMP32.jpg - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8ugly as *****. 512mb is enough for a single movie. i will now proceed to take a dump on this product.
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dual-core is meaningless in an embedded device unless you are the programmer! The user can't tell what the guts of the device do. The Nintendo DS is dual core too, so was the Sega Saturn, big deal! Well, they are actually 'multi-processor'. Dual-core usually means 2 CPU cores on one chip, like the AMD Athlon 64 x2, or the Intel Duo.
- s.lucero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heads up, it looks cheap. buttons look cramped... and overall poorly assembled, and those headphones.....
- bmc152006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3good idea, terribly implemented.
- Lite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2looks cool, but is it only 512mb
- dignon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2512MB in Mpeg1 is like 10 minutes or something? This looks incredibly lame. Too small, low capacity, low battery, crappy design (headphone jack on the side?!? seriously.) Actually... why the hell I'm I wasting my time with this... ugh.
- dstart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't understand? Dual op-amps? dubya?
- UezeU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So in six months they can have a updated product you can buy.
- TheShrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Seriously... Who'd want that kind of power in a music player with today's battery technology? I'd like to be able to listen to whole songs before recharging it. =
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2now if only we could solve the gas crisis
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11.5" screen? Yeah, I'll pass. My Audiovox PPC-6600 smartphone has a 3.5" LCD and plays any type of media I throw at it. Converted DVD's, DivX, QT, etc.
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like how there are no profile shots so that we can't see that it's 4 inches thick.
- prothall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To be slightly more verbose:
The GP2X, the linux-based PEP (Portable Entertainment Player; the company's name, not mine), plays AVIs handily, along with music, photos, games, and can also let you read text files and whatnot.
Oh, and they've got Qtopia, Opera, and USB Host working on it. Along with the cheap TV-Out.
And it deserves mention here because it's dual core, with 2 200MHz ARM processors, one used just for graphics. - foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+165k color only? that sucks; but what sucks more is the fact that it only has 512mb of "memory."
what do you mean by memory? is that ram or permanent file storage? it has to be ram. i mean, if it has two cores, then that HAS to be ram. then again, why would you need TWO cores to play mpeg-1 files? is that supposed to say mpeg-2, like "tclast" is supposed to say TECLAST? that would make more sense. then again, what's the point of mpeg-2 playing on a 65k color screen? this WHOLE ENTIRE thing makes NO SENSE. anyway, TECLAST is an asian company. their stuff will probably never make it over to the u.s. or even europe. - dylanA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1too bad is only 512MB, and not wide screen.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Animated postage stamps--collect 'em while they're hot!
- OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you read that out loud it sounds like one of those annoying fake techie sidekicks in cartoons these days. It made me shudder
- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1google translated product page:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.teclast.com/specail/c150/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DC150%2Bdual%2Bcore%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D - irate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My iPod is dual-core!!!!!!
this digg = lame - burningmonk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3All that processing power and a whopping 512mb or memory. Now I can put a only a fraction of all my porn on this thing! :P
- silvercold88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not buying it,looks like crap, 512? thats awesome i can almost fit a complete episode of lost :(, anyway cant anyone create something that looks good and has a HDD bigger than the iPod?? didnt think so...
- shooby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3exactly what I was thinking
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a waste of a dual core...
It is not wide screen.
It is unable to play DiVx or Xvid video files. (It only plays Mpeg-1 not even Mpeg-2!)
The screen is tiny...
I doubt that any human will be able to tell the sound/video quality difference between this player and any other player of the same size.
The screen should be at least 4 inches wide. (6+ to really take advantage of the dual core)
And it should support more Video and Audio formats! - pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that would be very cool actually if not also completely retarded
- redwineandblood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3better question is: why did they scale the video vertically? O_o
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anybody else find the article to be laughable? Dual core? Tons of consumer devices already have multiple cores, either on the same die or seperate dies. MPEG-1 playback? Since when is that impressive? Tons of devices can do that and more. Improved SNR through dual-core? Such things are governed by better quality DACs and better insulation on internal pathways. I'm having trouble understanding why this is on the front page of Digg.
- michaelg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some people on a Cowon A2 forum were talking about hacking it and said that it uses a dual core processor.
I'm not sure I would ever want to watch anything on something so small. - jbond03, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ill take 2
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iPod has been dual core from day 1. Two ARM7TDMIs. Also the Rio Karma (since it used almost the same chip as iPod).
- alphamerik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dont forget the gp2x
- metalstorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One question: why? When was the last time you were looking at your mp3/portable movie player and wishing you had more parallelism? I will stick with longer lasting battery power.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"dual processors does not mean dual core. dual core = two processors on one chip."
The iPod's PortalPlayer chip is what is known as a "System-on-a-Chip", meaning not only are both ARMs located onboard the chip, but a lot of the logic that would ordinarily be used by those ARMs is on chip as well (including IDE controllers, LCD controllers, button controllers, Flash and SDRAM controllers, USB controllers, everything except the audio and video output codecs). So I think it could be classified as "dual core". - xalax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is it just me or did they photoshop movie posters on the thing
- kimzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. Looks really cheap.
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um, aren't quite a few inexpensive consumer electronics devices dual core ARMs? I was under the impression that they were quite common.
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