18th May 2005, 7:46 AM
Of course laptops still have PC components, but think about it... from a computing perspective, what does a PC do at the core ? It does calculations. Every program is a freaking set of instructions from word processing to games, and games and scientific software are the pinnacle of memory and processing power intensive calculations. High end scientific software is left to the mainframes so thats out of our discussion. Games run on PC, and games run on consoles. A PC that does calculations just like a console does and so a console needs to have the majority of the components that a PC has to do those same calculations that a PC does. You have the processor with its motherboard, HD, disc drive, RAM, video card, I/O, etc. A 512 MB video card that runs console games needs to be able to process data in the same style a PC 512 MB video card. This is espcially true for the Xbox which relies on Direct X architecture like the PC. Today's top notch 256 MB video cards are ranging about $200-300 alone. 512 MB video card alone on these consoles are going to cost about $300 at launch on the PC market. Miniaturizing something like that to fit in a console will make it cost even more, just as they cost more in a laptop.
Sure, they can take a partial lost, but theres only so low you can go. What's kind of sad though is that when the Revolution launches, its processors is going to be about as strong as probably the top of the line concurrent PDA prototypes, although its carrying more stuff of course to do gaming such as a video card, drive, etc.
Btw DJ, you seem to be interested in teaching people lessons in areas where you show an obvious lack of formal education. Wtf is going on ? Do you work in computer engineering ? I don't do computer engineering, but I've had introduction, and my friends in the field tend to agree with me on this.
Sure, they can take a partial lost, but theres only so low you can go. What's kind of sad though is that when the Revolution launches, its processors is going to be about as strong as probably the top of the line concurrent PDA prototypes, although its carrying more stuff of course to do gaming such as a video card, drive, etc.
Btw DJ, you seem to be interested in teaching people lessons in areas where you show an obvious lack of formal education. Wtf is going on ? Do you work in computer engineering ? I don't do computer engineering, but I've had introduction, and my friends in the field tend to agree with me on this.