So... Is this real? Because this is really cool if it's real.
Otherwise, this might be Google's most disappointing April Fool's day thing yet.
[QUOTE=woolio1;47436842]So... Is this real? Because this is really cool if it's real.
Otherwise, this might be Google's most disappointing April Fool's day thing yet.[/QUOTE]
They did this today
[video=youtube;lI9Qb4PuiOU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9Qb4PuiOU[/video]
Pretty cool that computers have gotten so advanced that phones can be turned into full laptops by connecting a keyboard to it, and OS's can run off a thing that fits in your wallet
That's pretty dope tbh.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47437471]It's real but it's still dissapointing that you can get one with the same specs that runs full Windows 8.1 for the same price
[img]http://www.cdrinfo.com/images/uploaded/Intel_Meegopad_T01.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I personally hope they find a better solution to the whole power issue though, if the device you're plugging into doesn't have a usb port nearby it's really messy. Even if there needs to be a new port designed for this market eventually it's something they really need to deal with
Every tv I've came across has a USB port. Or you can just plug it into the wall
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47437471]It's real but it's still dissapointing that you can get one with the same specs that runs full Windows 8.1 for the same price
[img]http://www.cdrinfo.com/images/uploaded/Intel_Meegopad_T01.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That's a much better deal.
Yeah one of those sticks might replace my current mobile secured OS of a linux live USB with a partition for saving changes.
One of those might replace the guts of my G4 Cube. Mainly because it doesn't currently have any guts, since I took it apart (it had long-term heat damage.)
It's significantly more powerful. Need to see how the Hackintosh scene goes, though.
[QUOTE=mark6789;47438435]Every tv I've came across has a USB port. Or you can just plug it into the wall[/QUOTE]
Yeah you can definitely do that, my point is that it's super awkward to have this nice minimalist stick you plug in but then if the USB port isn't [i]close[/i] it creates this big dangly cable. One TV I had had the USB port on the opposite side of the HDMI, and it was huge :v:
[QUOTE=Elspin;47438248]I personally hope they find a better solution to the whole power issue though, if the device you're plugging into doesn't have a usb port nearby it's really messy. Even if there needs to be a new port designed for this market eventually it's something they really need to deal with[/QUOTE]
I doubt they'll suddenly adopt a display port (not displayport) standard that can carry the power just for that.
Better to just suck it up and carry along a 1½m long usb cable or a mobile charger.
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[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47437471]It's real but it's still dissapointing that you can get one with the same specs that runs full Windows 8.1 for the same price
[img]http://www.cdrinfo.com/images/uploaded/Intel_Meegopad_T01.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Annoys me greatly that you can't buy a slightly cheaper version with same specs but without windows 8.1
There's only a gimped version without.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47440250]OS X is impossible on Bay Trail and similar Atom SoC devices[/QUOTE]
Just wait for them to make the mini worse and worse until it's running bay trail.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47440250]OS X is impossible on Bay Trail and similar Atom SoC devices[/QUOTE]
yeah, No....
If it's possible with a intel atom N230 processor combined with the ancient intel 945 chipset (which it is, with some fiddling), then I'll bet money on that Intel's effort on getting the Bay Trail to play nicely with the Linux kernel can be plucked out and wrapped up into a nice kext for OSX.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47440250]OS X is impossible on Bay Trail and similar Atom SoC devices[/QUOTE]
Right now, anyway. We'll see where it ends up in a couple of years, though. SoCs are becoming far more commonplace, so there'll definitely be some push to develop an abstraction layer in the hackintosh community.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47440805]N230 isn't an Atom System on a Chip device like Bay Trail or Cherry Trail, also you need to patch the kernel[/QUOTE]
SoC just means the chipsets and processor are one unit, literally only a physical difference, zero electrical.
And like kernel patching is a big problem with UNIX derivatives, considering it was also possible to get OSX to boot and work on old Pentium 4 systems.
[QUOTE=Elspin;47438248]I personally hope they find a better solution to the whole power issue though, if the device you're plugging into doesn't have a usb port nearby it's really messy. Even if there needs to be a new port designed for this market eventually it's something they really need to deal with[/QUOTE]
USB3.1
Seriously, its fucking magical
Can have a monitor using just a single wire using it, power, video, and audio over the same cable.
Hell, the new macbook air does exactly that, uses a single USB3.1 port for everything
[QUOTE=viperfan7;47444897]USB3.1
Seriously, its fucking magical
Can have a monitor using just a single wire using it, power, video, and audio over the same cable.
Hell, the new macbook air does exactly that, uses a single USB3.1 port for everything[/QUOTE]
You mean the new MacBook? That's USB-C. USB 3.1 is just USB 3.0 with twice the bandwidth.
I thought HDMI 2.0 had the ability to carry enough power for devices like that?
This' literally nothing new and has been done ever since the ARM architecture and Android became mainstream.
[QUOTE=Tools;47459412]This' literally nothing new and has been done ever since the ARM architecture and Android became mainstream.[/QUOTE]
These are Intel Atom-based x86 systems.
So this is fundamentally different from ARM SoCs.
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