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AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet
SmartAboutThings writes "Chip maker AMD has announced that it's won 2 CES Innovation Awards for a gaming tablet the company plans to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The device is called "Project Discovery" and will come with AMD's Mullins chip that is a 64-bit, x86-based chip, perfectly suitable for Windows 8.1. The low-power Mullins APU (accelerated processing unit) is AMD's answer to Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm, aimed at fanless tablets, ultrathin notebooks, and 2-in-1 devices. The 28nm processor is expected to consume as little as 2 watts of energy while in use. The obtained images show that the upcoming AMD tablet is quite similar to Razer Edge."
Now I think I've heard it all.
The same as Xbox One and PS4, so none of them can actually run any games!
... shouldn't be long now.
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
Is that a fan air intake in the lower back corner?
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"perfectly suitable for Windows 8.1."
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So does that mean I can take off the loathsome Windows 8.1 and put on Linux and KDE?
Being an AMD processor running the amd64 architecture (not arm), it will have secure boot disabled, so we can install any operating system. I'll buy a few of these if they work out of the box with Debian. Maybe I'll get to find out if that Windows refund rule still works.
Not a gaming tablet, but one of the Mullins CPUs, to build a new low-power fanless home server.
This sounds like it could be an excellent Atom competitor.
Until we have Ender's Game like thought control of the tablet, I don't really foresee it being a serious gaming device. I know there are plenty of fancy-looking games for tablets these days, but you just don't have the same control versus a console. You could never dream of matching a console using conventional means.
For a tech site, the lack of fundamental knowledge is inexcusable.
Perhaps, if so I am happy for you, but a) I just don't believe you without details, sorry nothing personal and b) I would bet dollars to donuts you will find high deductables and co pays that make healthcare that you do recieve prohibitive.
Hey, if I am wrong then good for you, but if so you are the exception not the rule.
Oh and lots and lots of doctors aren't taking Obamacare, same for hospoitals. So much so that there is already talk of legislation forcing doctors to take it.
But you are right about the website, it's not relevant to the detals of the law. *However* it *is* relevant as to the competence of the people behind the program. So my point stands.
I'm a gamer but sometimes I'm tired and don't feel like sitting at a desk. I got the Asus T100 that has the new baytrail atom and while great, it can only run pre 2009 games or low end games. I can run Stanley Parable well (source engine game) but I also have Final Fantasy 14 and that only runs 10fps on the lowest setting.
Well basically what I'm saying there is a market out there, though a small one.
They're swirling! I think they have about two years before the inevitable "Drain of Doom".
That is all.
I've been waiting to find a convertible/hybrid ultrabook/ultra portable laptop that has battery life that approaches what you can get from a macbook air, and that has a wacom active digitizer.
I'd like it not to be a pile of plastic crap either.
Does such a device exist?
They won't need legislation. The free market will eventually pressure them into it. All health insurance plans now have to be ACA compliant, including the ones provided by employees, so a doctor deliberately refusing to take an ACA individual insurance HMO is cutting himself out of all the other customers who have that HMO/plan through their employees. What doctor in their right mind will refuse to be in-network to a Blue Cross?
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
its got an amazing video ca--- oh. Right. the processor is ARM. and the video card wont fit.
well fuck.
If AMD wants to get into the tablet game then have at it. From the supposed design pictures it looks like the tablet slides into a controller which in turn can plug into a dock with what looks like USB, Ethernet, displayport and HDMI. Those images might be fake but hell, if they are close to the final design then its a damn good start. It kinda reminds me of the Wii U controller. Now if they could get a technology like airplay integrated then the dock can be omitted and the thing hooked to a TV wirelessly. Then plop it into a dock with keyboard, mouse and monitor for some more productive use. Or slide it out of the controller and dock for a traditional tablet. I don't know how powerful the CPU/GPU is but it may suffice for most of the tasks people would use it for (games, internet, typing). Might have trouble running Crysis though :)
Now if it only ran Linux...
I guess they hit their mark pretty well then, if not in the sense they intended.
I really like the form factor of tablets; and I like the idea of being able to run the same OS as my PC. If Secure Boot isn't forced, I'd put Linux on it and replace my laptop.
Equally relevant is the rumour of their upcoming Blackberry tablet.
If that succeeds perhaps they will also release a PalmOS tablet as well?
It's a good idea for AMD to make its own tablet, rather than be traditionally at the mercy of the brand name OEMs. With Microsoft going Surface Pro and others coming out w/ their own tablets, there'd be few takers for AMD's, and besides, they'd be mud-wrestling on Android turf. Rather than that, it's a good idea for AMD to start w/ this, and if interest picks up, expand it to cover general use. In fact, that's the only way it could get itself a decent market. Price it somewhere b/w Android tablets & iPads, and it should be good
I don't get why companies insist on trying to make gaming tablets, sure they might be fine for angrybirds, but I think you'd be hardpressed to find any hardcore gamer looking to buy a tablet to game on. Maybe there is a target audience out there that isn't imaginary, but I just know I don't see it.
Feel free to mod me down, just know that unlike some Anonymous Cowards I'm not afraid to express my views as myself.
(Didn't post this yesterday because offtopic...)
Oh and lots and lots of doctors aren't taking Obamacare, same for hospoitals. So much so that there is already talk of legislation forcing doctors to take it.
Why couldn't they have such legislation? There is already this legislation in place forcing the plebs to buy this thing from companies.
"but money is the God of Algiers & Mahomet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
For a hardcore gamer it's of no use. Can they handle high graphics games, if so then worry about its heating problem, as this is a fanless. Besides playing games on a tablet is not comfortable.
Hope its better than nokia