Cool.
Rodney, check out the new HP TabletPC -- their current one (the
TC1000), uses a Crusoe and GeForce2. The new one (TC1100, I think) has
a Centrino and a GeForce4 (and switches to the Wacom pen technology),
and is pretty much the same form factor! This one will be great for AR
apps.
As I showed you at ISMAR, even the TC1000 doesn't do a terrible job at
video-mixed AR if you have "real" trackers (what I didn't show you was
the fidicial processing -- it's noticeably slow on the Crusoe). The
new one should handle the AR Toolkit just fine.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 04:17 AM, rodney wrote:
> http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/
> 0,10801,86046
> ,00.html?SKC=hardware-86046
>
> I came across the above bit of news when searching out tablet pc info.
>
> In a nutshell, Transmeta are making a new chip called 'Efficeon' that
> should be 50% faster than their crusoe chips while still being gentle
> on
> the batteries.
>
> It looks like Nvidia intend to make a graphics chip especially for it.
> HP have said they want to make some toys using it so maybe this
> combination could deliver up some devices better suited to mixed
> reality
> applications.
>
> I notice theres a new fujitsu convertible for thos looking for a 12
> inch
> screen and a 1.2Ghz centrino. Apparently it weighs a ton and uses the
> intel chip for graphics so our wait is not yet over folks...
>
> Rod.
>
> Rodney Berry
> ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
> Kyoto Japan
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