Anand's Google Nexus One Review
Off and on I've used Android devices since the platform's inception, dating back to the T-Mobile G1. And man, did I hate the G1. It was slow, lacked any sort of multitouch gestures and generally felt like smartphones did a few years ago.
What a difference a couple of years can make. Today's Android platform is very different. Version 2.1 of the OS, currently shipping on Google's own branded Android phone, merges much of what I've loved about the iPhone with the sort of openness and functionality that Google is known for.
With Android matured and Google shipping a very fast Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC in its first branded phone, it was about time that I took a look at the Nexus One.
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Acer Aspire AS5740G-6979: Budget Priced but Great Gaming
In recent years, Acer has been doing an admirable job of condensing respectable hardware into affordable machines. Each successive generation, Acer has usually had one or two solid notebooks that were able to squeeze a decent gaming GPU into a reasonable price tag, and with the Aspire 5740-6979, that trend continues. Today we're able to take a look at a machine that features Intel's still relatively young Core i5 paired with – and this is the particularly compelling part – AMD's new mobile DirectX 11-class hardware.
So just how good of a bargain is the latest Aspire 5740G? If you're after a budget-priced gaming laptop, you'll be hard pressed to beat it. The Mobility HD 5650 is the mobile equivalent of the desktop HD 5570, with slightly lower clocks on the core and memory. We weren't particularly impressed with the desktop offering, but moving to the laptop world and running at 1366x768 makes the GPU far more attractive. For under $800, the Aspire 5740G is able to run every game we tested at medium or higher detail settings, which is more than we can say for the competition.
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Apple iPad: The FCC Dissects it So We Don't Have To
We've been keeping an eye out for the iPad's inevitable FCC Filing, and although initial documents posted today at a number of sites, the images of the all important SoC, flash, and other chips were obscured with grey overlays.
Unfortunately for the FCC, the obscuring was done using a layer on top of the actual content in the PDF. Simply copying the PDF contents into Photoshop removed the grey overlay and revealed the chip markings on the PCB. First to notice the sloppy editing was ifixit who began publishing the uncensored details of the inside of Apple's new iPad due to be released tomorrow.
We've gone through the PDF and copied all of the photos into a high resolution gallery for you to peruse. We've also done a little bit of analysis on what we've found. Read more to find out.
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