I imagine the people Nintendo want to stop most are the commercial pirates not the people who download games at home.
I recently bought a copy of Professor Layton from ebay as there weren't any available in the shops. I was somewhat annoyed to discover I had bought a counterfeit copy despite avoiding all the cartidge only and despatched from hong kong auctions.
Still if they had shipped enough games to keep up with demand I would have bought it from amazon and avoided flea-bay like the plague as I usually do.
Nope - AGP can go both ways too, this is not a new feature on PCI-Express. PCI-Express is all about replacing PCI and AGP with a common interface.
Using the host processor "to make on the fly corrections to the image" would be madness as you would have to transfer the whole frame buffer off the GFX card to host mem and then back again. An incredible waste of bandwidth when you can do pretty much most things with pixel shaders anyway, without the round trip.
The Pentium-M does indeed sound like a great chip but you are wrong in one respect - there is going to be a desktop centrino.
See
the inquirer
Also you can already get desktop Pentium M/Centrino thingies for use in embedded systems, they're a bit pricey though.
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I imagine the people Nintendo want to stop most are the commercial pirates not the people who download games at home. I recently bought a copy of Professor Layton from ebay as there weren't any available in the shops. I was somewhat annoyed to discover I had bought a counterfeit copy despite avoiding all the cartidge only and despatched from hong kong auctions. Still if they had shipped enough games to keep up with demand I would have bought it from amazon and avoided flea-bay like the plague as I usually do.
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Nope - AGP can go both ways too, this is not a new feature on PCI-Express. PCI-Express is all about replacing PCI and AGP with a common interface.
Using the host processor "to make on the fly corrections to the image" would be madness as you would have to transfer the whole frame buffer off the GFX card to host mem and then back again. An incredible waste of bandwidth when you can do pretty much most things with pixel shaders anyway, without the round trip.The Pentium-M does indeed sound like a great chip but you are wrong in one respect - there is going to be a desktop centrino. See the inquirer Also you can already get desktop Pentium M/Centrino thingies for use in embedded systems, they're a bit pricey though.
I'd say minimum 2048x1556x16 bits per component. Maybe more like 4k x whatever.