Nvidia CEO Launches Tegra 2
By - Source: Tom's Hardware US
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We might have seen a beautiful Tegra-powered tablet from ICD at CES this week but pretty soon, it's going to be all about Tegra 2.
Nvidia launched Tegra 2 this week at CES and the tablet is aimed at low-cost notebooks (that's netbooks to us) and tablets. The Tegra 2's heterogeneous design incorporates a Cortex-A9 CPU plus a low-power GPU. The whole affair consumes 500mW under load.
Our on-site correspondent, Loyd Case, reports that Nvidia will offer the full Tegra development kit, which includes reference board, a small display, and Chromium OS, to all comers at "an affordable price."
The announcement follows reports from late December that detailed an Asus EeePC tablet running on Tegra 2.
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And they're both black...
Nice...
Me too.
Also hoping for an extremely efficient OLED.
I'd rather a PSP2 (or PSP N2000), because Sony keeps releasing new PSP's, but hasn't been giving them more horsepower...
You never can in technology, it changes too quickly!
Dc-dc converters aren't 100% efficient even at low power. In addition to that, assuming you'll be using the machine's battery as buffer, charging it using a small solar panel going in and out of threshold while you're drawing from it is also far from a 100% efficient transfer.
I think you're onto something really really interesting and good, though but you're really going to have to lower your expectations as technology is today. Realistically, the additional cost won't be worth the marginal increase in runtime, BUT embedding a solar charger on the cover of a small netbook would be a niche device for people away from an outlet for extended periods.
I'd buy one.
Crysis?
YES!!!
800x600 at LOWEST POSSIBLE SETTINGS.
Pretty much ANYTHING compatible with SM2.0 can run Crysis. It's not that much of a demanding game.... it's like Far Cry 1 on medium/high settings.
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I know what you mean... JUST got a Zune HD for chrismas. So pissed