Comments on: Nvidia-Powered Devices on Video — Including Notion Ink Slate with Pixel Qi Display!

By: darethehair

darethehair — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:09:33 +0000

Thanks for the great/long video! I am excited about this new tech as well, and I hope that Linux folks will be allowed to fully participate in this new world :)

I'd also like to see a bunch of compact 'nettop' PCs using the Tegra2, which would be ideal for tiny/quiet generic Linux servers, with the additional ability to act as HTPC (e.g. MythTV) boxes.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:17:47 +0000

i dont see why not, consider that most of the board behind the screen is for connectors, not the chip itself.

By: GM

GM — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:50:26 +0000

Do you think that Tegra 2 chip could fit in a smartphone? That would really blow my mind. Great video as always.

Apple will have a tough time beating this. We’ll have to wait and see what they come up with.

By: David McCormack

David McCormack — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:22:08 +0000

Aha! That’s what happens when I skip through the video just watching the ‘good bits’ – I miss the subtleties. Makes sense now. As I said, looks like an amazing device. Really curious to know how it’ll stack up next to the iSlate.

By: Riles

Riles — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:58:07 +0000

It has an HDMI out to push the 1080p elsewhere.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:47:51 +0000

Unless/until there’s a version of Chrome that has Dalvik (ie. runs Android apps), I hope we’ll continue to see Android on devices like these.

By: David McCormack

David McCormack — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:43:14 +0000

Amazing looking device! One question though…what is the advantage of being able to play full frame rate 1080p on a device with a vertical res of 600px? Surely picture quality would be just as good playing 720p and you’d use a lot less bandwidth and power. I guess one possible advantage is that a particular piece of content may not be available at 720p. The lower res is very common at the moment however so I dunno.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:42:40 +0000

No further details were offered at CES but Nvidia confirmed to us back in September that they’re working closely with Google on Chromium OS devices: http://jkontherun.com/2009/09/23/google-chrome-os-tegra/

Since Chromium OS is still very much a work in progress, I’m not surprised we didn’t see demos with anything other than Android, although one new Tegra reference netbook was running Windows CE.

By: Riles

Riles — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:36:58 +0000

Any thought that these might be running Chrome when they actually make it to market, or do they seem locked in on Android.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:37:46 +0000

After that demo, Apple’s tablet will damn near have to walk on water to tear my eyes away. Thanks, guys!

(The other really cool point in their final design that didn’t get mentioned here: a rotatable webcam. Flip toward user for video chat, flip away from user for photography. Or – given that the Tegra 2 platform supports up to 12 MP cameras – high-resolution portable document scanning? I’d buy that in a hot second.)

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:29:31 +0000

Is that $300 guess carrier-subsidized? I’m getting very excited about the emerging devices from CES, but I *really* don’t want to have to get a data plan to get the device down into my price range – for my use, WiFi-only is a perfectly adequate solution.

By: Da5id

Da5id — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:13:59 +0000

The Android home screen always looks awful on these large devices with a finger length between icons. That Pixel Qi screen looks pretty cool.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:13:37 +0000

It was one of the most impressive demos I saw at the show. That card module shown in the video is ready for OEMs to just plug into their devices. Expect to see them start appearing soon.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:56:34 +0000

seeing that game engine running, and reminding myself that this hardware has the nvidia name on it, intel and microsoft should be very very scared.

hook this baby up to something like steam, and allow keyboard and mouse to be attached, and you have potentially bypassed the wintel gaming market.

hell, if it can handle it using hdmi out, bye bye ps3 and xbox360.

By: geancarlo

geancarlo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:23:56 +0000

Ill buy one for $300 no sweat!

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:53:16 +0000

At $300, it’s almost a “have to buy” :-)