Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
NVidia's Tegra opens the opportunity to all kind of hardware acceleration in UI and games and such. The NIT currently isn't aimed at 3D games, nor does it contain much (functional) eye-candy, so in order to switch it'd constitute a big change in maemo. Given the design of the Pandora (potentially, a mini portable game computer) it'd be more in the interest for such device, than the NIT. The NIT, as it is, serves different goals than a primary goal of gaming. Switching to a totally different platform is not child's play, BTW. IMO Tegra is definetely something to keep an eye on.
My thoughts precisely. I'm generally optimistic about the technology but am aware of a one or two huge obstacles changing architectures. The high-spec'd OMAP 3430 looks to be comparable in capability, so the disadvantages of completely changing architecture may very well outweigh the hypothetical advantages of performance.

I think that this chipset may be NVidia's departure from strictly game-type devices. The device renderings on the Tegra site look more like PDAs and MIDs/ITs than portable gaming units. The same can be said about the demo apps. So although this technology seems poised to accomodate games well, I think it's marketed towards the general purpose handheld.

I'm very optimistic about the Tegra and will be watching it with enthusiasm. The one thing that it promises is competition to the current NITs and MIDs which can only mean more choices for the consumer!


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