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#98
Originally Posted by aflegg View Post
Yes, there's a well known design flaw by which the N8xx can't get video from the main memory to the display as quickly as the 770 can.

See the N800 & Video playback thread on maemo-developers for more details.
Thanks for the link, it was a very informative read.

It's a shame that the performance issues are hardware related.

Originally Posted by aflegg View Post
I'm sure he'd appreciate a hand, though ;-)
Heh. Yeah, it certainly sounds like it, but the prospect of 'low-level' optimizing on top of a system that has throttled performance due to incomplete drivers and a poorly designed system bus, isn't the least bit appealing to me. Apparently, he feels the same way.

The gates are open for the competition to walk all over Nokia. Let's hope that future hardware revisions correct this ridiculous cock-up.


}:^)~
YARR!!

Last edited by Capt'n Corrupt; 2007-10-31 at 17:08.