4:3 aspect ratio on an andriod tablet! This should be interesting.
Nexus 9
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#62What's up with keyboards that lack a right side ctrl key? Is it bad form to type using right-ctrl or something? Can someone shed some light on this? :\
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#63It has an arm64 CPU. It looks like this will be the first cheap, easily obtainable and hackable (?) arm64 hardware out there. I'm writing the arm64 Go compiler. I wonder if it's feasible to start testing on this machine too (e.g. how open it really is, how hard is to get a sane working environment, etc).
Before I got my Mustang (:-) I was hacking on the OCaml arm64 compiler backend using this technique. The article describes setting it up for Fedora. Follow through the links for how to do this on SUSE and Debian. It's fairly reasonable as a userspace dev environment. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/how-to-run-aarch64-bina...
Yes, I started with QEMU user emulation. It was so lame (lots of bugs in QEMU; both related to unsupported instructions and other miscellany that affected Go) that I just wrote my own arm64 emulator eventually (didn't take long, it's a variant of Plan 9's [5kqv]i user space emulators, I forgot to mention that all this work started on Plan 9). Now I have hardware but my emulator still gets its use, it's a great debugger too.
Re: Nexus 9
#64It has an arm64 CPU. It looks like this will be the first cheap, easily obtainable and hackable (?) arm64 hardware out there. I'm writing the arm64 Go compiler. I wonder if it's feasible to start testing on this machine too (e.g. how open it really is, how hard is to get a sane working environment, etc).
Are you working on this code publicly? I would love to take a look, as I've become quite interested in the gc compiler lately.
Sorry, this is not publicly available yet (soon!), but if you have a bitbucket account I can give you access.
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#65The price is $400 [1], in case anyone else was wondering: > Google’s Nexus 9 goes up for pre-order on October 17th, and should hit the shelves on November 3rd. The 16GB model will go for $400, the 32GB for $480, and a 32GB model with LTE built in will set you back $600. [1]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/15/google-nexus-9/
Top of the line is 32GB and costs $600? That's not just a bit dissapointing. How much can another 32GB of flash storage cost at OEM prices, $10? And no, I don't want to store everything on your servers, Google.
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#66Wait, they're using the 64 bit K1 as their processor? That's Project Denver[1]! I'm super excited to see how that thing benchmarks. This is basically Transmeta's Efficeon (same IP and team, even) with a bunch of improvements. They mentioned in the Hot Chips talk that they had made improvements like enabling native execution while the optimizer works - they benchmarks they provided said that it was very effective but…
I would expect it to bench pretty much the same as the Shield Tablet. In fact, they are probably almost identical hardware-wise. I'll be interested to see if there is a price difference.
Anand's CPU benchmarks are very browser-oriented. The Shield usually beat all other Android devices, but still lost to the iPad Air. I suspect that has more to do with the quality of Mobile Safari than the differences in hardware. In the GPU benchmarks, the Shield does very, very well. http://www.anandtech.com/show/8296/the-nvidia-shield-tablet-...
Overall, the K1 has both CPU and GPU paper/marketing specs that are theoretically a little better than an Xbox 360. This is demoed by the 360 game Trine 2 running very nearly as well on a Shield as on the 360. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-can-tr...
edit: Looks like the Nexus has a 2048x1536 screen vs the Shield's 1920x1200. 51% more pixels on the same GPU will be a much prettier at the cost of more GPU|battery strain. Given the high power GPU, that seems like a good trade off for a non-gaming-oriented tab.
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#67What's up with keyboards that lack a right side ctrl key? Is it bad form to type using right-ctrl or something? Can someone shed some light on this? :\
What would you remove from the keyboard to accommodate a right side ctrl key?
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#68It bothers me that we've lost the meaning of "memory" in the technical marketing of mobile gadgets. "Memory: 16 GB & 32 GB." Google, of course, means storage.
At some point we'll have unified memory and storage anyway. Our brains are already unified in our perception of memory, so I have no problem telling people the storage amount as "memory".
Our brains are not unified. Separating long and short memory makes a lot of sense.
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#69The price is $400 [1], in case anyone else was wondering: > Google’s Nexus 9 goes up for pre-order on October 17th, and should hit the shelves on November 3rd. The 16GB model will go for $400, the 32GB for $480, and a 32GB model with LTE built in will set you back $600. [1]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/15/google-nexus-9/
Top of the line is 32GB and costs $600? That's not just a bit dissapointing. How much can another 32GB of flash storage cost at OEM prices, $10? And no, I don't want to store everything on your servers, Google.
It's a way for Google to allow users to price-discriminate themselves, it has very little to do with their marginal cost.
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#70And of course the day before Apple announces its new iPad (allegedly). I really like having two very well funded companies in all out competition, it makes for some really great features and options in both products. The size thing is what I'm interested in though. I'm waiting to see if there actually is a 12" iPad pro tomorrow, otherwise I'll pull the trigger on a Note Pro. I get the pocket/purse argument for 9" but…
You find 9-10" is insufficient for reading material?
I have a 7" Android I got to test the waters, and reading ebooks/pdfs/textbooks/magazines is my use case so I'm thinking of going up in screen size- but how much?