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- Remmiz, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8Tom Sawyer on the go!
- Shadowgamers, on 06/02/2008, -0/+6I can't read one Nvidia article without it bashing Intel these days :V
- ViperCTW, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4I would have preferred Journey myself
- chanop, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3you can add #chanop to that list. I love wearing thongs under my adult diapers! but seriously, buried/reported
- gttim, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2The Starman Phone!
- devoss, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1It's about time. Where have they been for the last decade?
- inactive, on 06/02/2008, -1/+2Mobile technology is the future...
We're seriously surprised by this? - rizla420, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1What exactly would qualify as a MID, a cell phone? If so, I dont think the form factor would be a good platform for students. Something along the lines of UMPC with a flip top like a tablet would probably be ideal.
Where the hell is e-paper already, thats the market for schools. Save some trees. - ElGigi, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there.
- Tenoq, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Not that there is anything wrong with that...
- donna1234, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Chip suppliers for cellphones are moving aggressively to make products for the gadgets, dubbed MIDs, for mobile Internet devices.
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http://www.alobre.info - Crucible1001, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I am sure the way linux is being adopted in small laptops will have an effect on the willingness of companies to use it on their handheld devices. There is no real reason to use windows mobile except for software support at the moment.
- PCDestroyer, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Woo!! I love my Nokia N800. But i just wish it had better battery life and wasn't too slow to watch videos higher than 480x272..
- l800LEMMINGS, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Nvidia describes its new Tegra chip for MIDs as a "computer on a chip" that will be particularly good for tasks such as watching videos and playing games. Mike Rayfield, general manager of the company's mobile unit, estimates a device built around his company's new chip can play 26 hours of high-definition video on a single battery charge, compared with four hours using a new Intel chip called Atom.
this is either a major breakthrough or nvidia is severely manipulating the variables in the test to have this outcome - krnldmp, on 06/02/2008, -1/+2It's a big old goofy world. On one hand you have people buying 10 foot wide plasma displays, and on the other you have them trying to get video on a @#^%*! dinky cell phone.
- proverbs17, on 06/02/2008, -0/+0I want a cheap tablet computer so I can read Digg while sitting around the house!
- RabbidBunny, on 06/02/2008, -0/+0Be honest by sitting around the house you mean on the toliet.
- Crucible1001, on 06/02/2008, -0/+0This is really great news. The best pocketpc you can get now is a dell axim x50v or x51v which are starting to show age. I can't wait to see what kind of new products will come out.
- inactive, on 06/02/2008, -1/+1Buried for being a n00b.
- inactive, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0Nvidia is going to make an Arm core interesting I figure they would have made an X86 clone or licensed PPC cores from IBM.
But Atom is junk as it's battery life claims are not accurate as the chip would only get to go into deep sleep during standby it'll have to be wide awake just to keep the UI alive.
So Nvidia is likely making the correct move going with an Arm core that always has power usage in the milliwatt range vs only during standby. - inactive, on 06/02/2008, -0/+0I have a circa 2005 Ipaq ... has a somewhat craptistic version of Windows Mobile 5 ... that being stated.. it has wifi, and office suite, ftp , imap mail, instant messanger and a tabbed browsers, complete with watching youtube videos.. for about a week I was somewhat 'stranded' without a proper laptop or deskop and all I had was this pocketpc...
within a few hours I had it configured with everything I needed to get my job done... and when I got home.. I almost never fired up my laptop anymore as I got used to the ipaq... currently i am posting from it..
The point is that they work.. how else can you put your computer in your pocket and have it 24/7
These companies would have to be idiots of epic proportions not to see this monster coming down the road. - inactive, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0Yah I never liked MS's embedded OS's that much still in retrospect I'm surprised Nvidia isn't also making an X86 chip for small laptops to go with the arm used in MIDs.
Though with linux and other open OS's having an X86 instruction set no longer is that important you just recompile everything for the new chip.
Though even closed OS's can also be ported easily if the company who owns them wants to as seen in the case of the iphone which runs a cut down OSX which is partly closed and partly open on an arm processor. - APDSD, on 10/07/2008, -0/+0Of course it is, people are just plain slow to grow with the pace of technology, including me sometimes. http://www.anchorpointdesignsd.com/graphic_design. ...
- misamiyo, on 06/14/2008, -0/+0They are doing this thing because they knew that we are now on computer generation and their product will sell, because of being in-demand and they are taking advantage on it.
- inactive, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0Arms are way more efficient then X86s getting an X86 to run on 2 to 4 watts is big news while you're typical arm processor only uses a few hundred milliwatts under a full load.
Also a device that can run for a whole day on a batteries that used to be very common back in the 80s the tandy 102 was able to run for I think 20 hours on four AAs. - inactive, on 07/30/2008, -0/+0Nvidia describes its new Tegra chip for MIDs as a "computer on a chip" that will be particularly good for tasks such as watching videos and playing games. Mike Rayfield, general manager of the company's mobile unit, estimates a device built around his company's new chip can play 26 hours of high-definition video on a single battery charge, compared with four hours using a new Intel chip called Atom.
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http://xn--ngbmz.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com/ - inactive, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0Intel would be screwed if Nvidia didn't make 3d cards to go with Intel's CPUs as Intel can't make a good 3d accelerator.
Esp now the AMD owns ATI so I'd expect ATI drivers to just work better on AMD chips even if they are not doing it on purpose because ATI now can work with the newest prerelease AMD chips when developing a new product. - rtgarden, on 06/02/2008, -1/+0these devices will be the educational portal fr most of the worlds children very soon. We will need some decent educational games and tie-ins with textbook type material for MIDs in short order.
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