"Genesi is pleased to announce the development of the 4U2 sub-laptop based on the EFIKA 5K2 reference design and the Freescale MPC5200B. The 4U2 will be produced in Asia and be available in Q2 2006. The 4U2 board can be deployed in a variety of configurations and uses and includes both mobile and WIFI wireless capability." More here. The price will be $299 (EUR 255), but may drop if demand is great enough.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2005-07-06
> > Umm.. sure. My G3-based (700MHz IIRC) Mac doesn't
> > have enough horsepower to show movies, but this
> > MPC5200B @ 466MHz (or less) will? I'll believe it
> > when I see it.
>
> I'm watching full-screen movies on my 366 MHz ThinkPad
> under FreeBDS for ages so I'd say you're just shittin.
So what? You can even play full-screen movies on a dog-slow A500. You just can't play normal, full resolution movies, and I don't believe for a second that you can play 720x576 XviDs with your 366 MHz ThinkPad unless you have some dedicated decoder chip in it. And even if you could I still wouldn't be "shittin" since I really will believe it when I see it.
Member since:2005-11-17
I have a 300Mhz Thinkpad which can play full-screen DVDs.
It uses a Trident DVD decoder chip which is part of the video card, and MediaMatics DVD Express.
I am able to play full-screen DVDs with lots of action (including the intro to Fight Club) on the ThinkPad under Windows 2000 or XP Professional due to the chip offload.
The ATi All-In-Wonder video cards can do the same thing by offloading the MPEG-2 processing to the card itself so your DVD playback takes very little CPU time.
If you have the money, you can buy chips which handle your video decoding in hardware, especially from vendors such as ATi or Nvidia. You can even program an FPGA to handle the codecs for you. If Archos can do this, so can BB&RV. If any number of Chinese DVD manufacturers can support video codecs in their <$100 DVD players, so can they 
.
I would not be surprised if they're using an FPGA or one of the commercial chip solutions out there for codec support.
Member since:2005-11-15
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently."In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies."The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
Member since:
> Umm.. sure. My G3-based (700MHz IIRC) Mac doesn't
> have enough horsepower to show movies, but this
> MPC5200B @ 466MHz (or less) will? I'll believe it
> when I see it.
I'm watching full-screen movies on my 366 MHz ThinkPad under FreeBDS for ages so I'd say you're just shittin.