Amazon Tablet May Cost Hundreds Less Than iPad

[sonyreaderfan]

Originally Posted by molman

You know what is also funny (beyond those proposed results being a waste of time), Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both dropped out of college (I believe after one semester for Job's). Not sure if either ever went back though I'm sure they received some of those honorary degrees that get handed around these days. Rather ironic really

Steve Wozniak went back to get his EECS degree from U.C. Berkeley.

http://berkeley.edu/tour/students/famous_alumni.html

[molman]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

Steve Wozniak went back to get his EECS degree from U.C. Berkeley.

http://berkeley.edu/tour/students/famous_alumni.html

Well there you go. Wonder how much more classwork he had to actually do, vs. all the credit I'm sure he got

Comes across as a nice guy Woz does.

[sonyreaderfan]

Originally Posted by molman

Well there you go. Wonder how much more classwork he had to actually do, vs. all the credit I'm sure he got

Comes across as a nice guy Woz does.

He's a genius. He was designing computers when others in college can't/aren't. I'm sure the classwork is a breeze for him.

[molman]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

He's a genius. He was designing computers when others in college can't/aren't. I'm sure the classwork is a breeze for him.

classwork 'was' a breese for him... and yes I'm sure he did just fine and loved every minute being the big geek he is.

I still found it funny in light of that silly survey.

Anyway back on topic: Latest update seems to be 7" tablet out October, 10" not till Q1 2012 (via Digitimes) plus there has been some speculation on parts (Quadcore Nvidia chip in the 10" model and current Tegra 2 for the 7").

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by molman

Anyway back on topic: Latest update seems to be 7" tablet out October, 10" not till Q1 2012 (via Digitimes) plus there has been some speculation on parts (Quadcore Nvidia chip in the 10" model and current Tegra 2 for the 7").

*sigh* I just want to know the weight and dimensions on the 7" model. Really hoping it's lighter than the Nook Color.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

*sigh* I just want to know the weight and dimensions on the 7" model. Really hoping it's lighter than the Nook Color.

You forget the most important one: exact date!

[joenunya]

Originally Posted by molman

there has been some speculation on parts (Quadcore Nvidia chip in the 10" model and current Tegra 2 for the 7").

That has been my assumption as well as hope for the 10" Amazon tablet. I don't care about the smaller tablet being less powerful as I would only be using to for simple tasks. I want a more robust tablet when hunting something larger. Plus I expect the Tegra 3 (aka Nvidia Quadcore) to be a lot more power efficient which will only help. What I really hope for is a much improved color gamut on the new tablets because of the better graphics ability in the chip and it's integrated video system. I remain hopeful for some daylight readability.

[molman]

Originally Posted by joenunya

What I really hope for is a much improved color gamut on the new tablets because of the better graphics ability in the chip and it's integrated video system. I remain hopeful for some daylight readability.

I would have thought the display panel itself would have more to do with colour reproduction. Has the gpu core in these SoC's been limiting this in some manner?

If Nvidia live up to their word the Tegra 3 (or Kal-El if you prefer) should be ~5x faster. I'm not sure about improved battery life though. It's still a 40 nm chip, with similar Cortex A9 cores (just now 4) and a 12 instead of (I believe?) the 8 core GPU in the Tegra 2. I'd actually expect battery life to take a hit if anything, but then in a 10" tablet you do have more space for a higher capacity batteries so it shouldn't be too bad in RL usage and maybe they have made some other improvements.

[afa]

Originally Posted by Graham

OK, right look, an Apple's like really small, right? But the Amazon, that's like this really big river. But then a Google, that's like this unbelievably humongous number.

Microsoft?

Really, really tiny. And soft.

Graham

Well, that is certainly a *new* argument.

But how will you relate it to what is good or bad? I suppose for us guys, "Microsoft" would be the worst...

[joenunya]

Originally Posted by molman

I would have thought the display panel itself would have more to do with colour reproduction. Has the gpu core in these SoC's been limiting this in some manner?

ahhh, geeeeze, I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote that part. Maybe couple things at once? But you are absolution right, it's pretty much all up to the display itself and it's ability to display a wide gamut or color space if you prefer. What I want is a display that can do a good job and display about 110% to 120% of the sRGB color space/gamut. Sigh, see what looking back at the first fifty can do to a person? Or maybe it just comes with the AARP card? But thanks for pointing it out.

I'm too pooped and tired to get into the potential increased efficiency of the new quadcore processors vs. the last gen dual cores. But beyond hardware there is load balancing and processing efficiency to consider as well as improved system firmware or even architecture specific to that module. I know there are early-production as well as various engineering samples of Tegra 3 out in the wild and I doubt we would be seeing new tablets that have shorter battery lives. So to me we will be seeing longer run times for a couple generations yet while the systems are still able to be fine-tuned. It's a neat time in PC tech again as these devices evolve.

[molman]

@joenunya: It's cool, there were days when the graphics card would affect colour. I remember when Matrox was the bees knees for 2D graphics. As to true colour reproduction I'm guessing your after it for something like photography? I know these tablets have become popular aids for the pros and amateurs alike.

As to Nvidia's SoC, I find it hard to believe they'd get much (if any) overall power improvements on the same fab process with a larger chip unless there are some real deficiencies in Tegra 2's power management, or those GPU cores are just a heck of a lot better... but then this report (rumour) does support a same or less than Tegra 2 view.

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

*sigh* I just want to know the weight and dimensions on the 7" model. Really hoping it's lighter than the Nook Color.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

You forget the most important one: exact date!

And Price. I'm interested in this 7" model too. In another thread they posted about a Samsung 7.7 that seems nice too.

Carol

[Barty]

Originally Posted by boswd

and over half of those 29 million people would stand in lines for days even if Apple released nothing more than a brick, an ordinary brick with an apple logo on it and sold it for $400. I'm not kidding I really honestly and truely think they would.

?

You believe this, huh? I guess we don't need to ask who's in a brainwashing cult.

Maybe we just need to ban all apple discussion, like politics and religion.

[boswd]

Originally Posted by Barty

You believe this, huh? I guess we don't need to ask who's in a brainwashing cult.

Maybe we just need to ban all apple discussion, like politics and religion.

DeNile is not just a river