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From: (PeteCresswell) on 25 Apr 2010 10:21 Per Paul: >An acid test, for example, is to do PIP on 1080p, >and perhaps that is what you as a consumer have in mind, It's not what I had in mind - being sufficiently clueless to not have much of *anything* in mind... but it sounds like a good idea for an acid test. I copied a segment of an HD broadcast to my key fob/thumb drive and next time I get to the local Micro Center, I'll try doing the PIP thing and see how it renders. Notably absent from Asus' attempt at specs is any mention of "nVidia" or "GeForce".... -- PeteCresswell
From: Foke on 30 Apr 2010 13:41 On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:21:29 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" <x(a)y.Invalid> wrote: >... Or whatever it takes to render 1080 without overloading the >CPU. > >Are we there yet? Nope. To the best of my knowledge, no Eee PC has the screen real estate to do 1080, much less the horsepower. TBH, your query sounds a bit odd anyway. It's like asking if the smart car ( http://www.smartusa.com/ ) can do 0-60 in under 6 seconds. It wasn't a design principle for the car and 1080 wasn't a design principle for the Eee PC. It may well do 1080 some day, but by then it will just be another down-sized laptop.
From: (PeteCresswell) on 30 Apr 2010 14:41
Per Foke: >TBH, your query sounds a bit odd anyway. It's like asking if the smart >car ( http://www.smartusa.com/ ) can do 0-60 in under 6 seconds. It >wasn't a design principle for the car and 1080 wasn't a design principle >for the Eee PC. It may well do 1080 some day, but by then it will just be >another down-sized laptop. Not weird in the context of my own use. I really do use my 901 as a web book, but it has another use: as a node for my TV system. Mostly I watch TV on regular television sets that are fed by the system, but at night I'll often watch a movie or the rest of some show I didn't finish earlier in the day while laying in bed. No hard drive, plenty battery life.... Works great except for HD shows. I can still watch them, but I have to tell the system to down-level the rez on-the-fly. No real loss for talking heads like Charlie Rose or Jay Leno... but it falls short for movies where a certain level of detail and ability to render lots of motion is needed. It's still acting as a more-or-less-dumb terminal - just being asked to render stuff that's beyond the capabilities of a graphics engine that relies on the CPU. Offloading that rendering to a dedicated chip would be an improvement. Dunno what it would do the power requirements though - and economy of power use seems tb a key part of what makes something a "web book" instead of a regular laptop. -- PeteCresswell |