Look, folks, it ain't about the Megahertz. The Foleo's CPU has to do multiple things, including running a big-ass color display. If this device had a 320x320 screen, that might be one thing, but 1024x600 is 6 times more pixels to keep track of (and I bet those pixels have a higher color range, meaning there's 12 or 18 times more image data to manage).
Hawkins said it can't, so arguing that it can is based on nothing more than wishful thinking. On 5/31/07, Michael M. Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bah, you don't even need 400 MHz. I can run video on my 68060 CPU based > whopping 50 MHz Amiga 4000. Not extremely high quality, but it still does > a decent job considering the age of the hardware. :-) > > --- > Mike > > > ..... Original Message ....... > On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:23:46 +0200 Nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >With a 400MHz processor, anything can run video (possibly the decoding > needs > >to be done offline). > > > >Wait and see ;) > > > >On 5/31/07, Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On 5/31/07, Nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Who says it can not run video ? > >> > >> Jeff Hawkins, the chief architect of the device, said so in the > >> webcast today -- the processor is not up to the task of decoding video > >> (not even Flash video). > >> > >> I would call that both authoritative and definitive. > >> > >> > >> > >> Yahoo! Groups Links > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://www.GearBits.com -- Tech. Culture. Ideas. Opinions.
