Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 6/6/08, Tom Cooksey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 June 2008 09:45:29 Carsten Haitzler wrote: the problem is - if you have a nice screen but the engine to power it is underpowered, you will suffer from complaints of it just being slow then instead. I'd like to wave the little

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, (I try to cut out some citations). this is my dilemma. win with dpi and sharpness, but then lose in smoothness/speed. i lean a bit to- smoothness myself, but i want to hear the peanut gallery so to speak :) (please don't take offence! i'm seriously about listening that's why i ask!)

QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread Ken Young
Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but as i said - i'm just looking to see what people think. and why. i'm very interested in why. why is a vga screen so important? can you REALLY see all the pixels? can you REALLY read an 8-point font on that screen at that size? (be honest!). from

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread thomasg
Samsung also seems to have no more ((partially) useful) docs about the s3c series online. Why not switch to freescale, and get solid arm11 SoCs with more power then even the samsung pedants and million times used in smartphones of all vendors? They even have hundreds of sites in documents freely

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 6. Juni 2008 schrieb Flemming Richter Mikkelsen: When it comes to GTA03, I will not buy one (because I buy the GTA02), so I will not be the target. Maybe QVGA is a good solution, or maybe it should be an option when you buy If I got that right, we just need to tune some of the

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:18:43 +0200 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi, (I try to cut out some citations). this is my dilemma. win with dpi and sharpness, but then lose in smoothness/speed. i lean a bit to- smoothness myself, but i want to hear the peanut gallery

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Jun 2008, at 23:19, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: ... Let's reverse the question - would you reduce the resolution of your desktop system? What do you currently have? 1024*1280 or more? You can still do everything like writing software, e-mail, web browsing, gaming. Probably

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 01:30:43 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On 6 Jun 2008, at 23:19, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: ... Let's reverse the question - would you reduce the resolution of your desktop system? What do you currently have? 1024*1280 or more? You can still

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-06 Thread rakshat hooja
it will be better - of course. what' i'm baffled about is why all of a sudden here a lot of excellent vision gifted people turn up, whereas in real life i never see them... :) -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Its just that the excellent vision gifted people are

QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-05 Thread rakshat hooja
quick question - would you prefer a qvga lcd (save a bit of cost) since we'e going to need to software-drive all graphics - the fewer pixels you have to fill, the better for speed. i'm really tossing up if the speed of qvga is worth the loss of resolution. i'm just not sure. I have a

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-05 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 05 June 2008 14:32:14 rakshat hooja wrote: The N95 is also good when you look at it on its own and one has no problems reading anything but when kept next to the Neo 1973 and Sharp 903 one can tell the display is not in the same league. (the Sharp is also visible in the sun though

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-05 Thread Dylan Semler
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:32 AM, rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quick question - would you prefer a qvga lcd (save a bit of cost) since we'e going to need to software-drive all graphics - the fewer pixels you have to fill, the better for speed. i'm really tossing up if the speed of

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