Notebook Round-up: Room Gaming vs Portable Gaming
The popularity of portable PCs is on the increase each month. The number of notebooks sold in comparison with ordinary PCs speaks clearly about this. Yet “home” configurations still have the upper hand in one very strong and profitable segment – gaming. Gaming notebooks are more and more numerous, but their prices go from 1000€ upwards, while a really wicked machine requires nearly 2000€. Desktop variants offer much better performance for way less money. Of course, you won’t be carrying them around and playing games in a park, but gaming is simply much cheaper this way. What we wanted to do this time around is prepare a very ambitious test, i.e. confront desktop PCs and notebooks. As 800€ seems to be the go-to price range for a good gaming PC nowadays, the display and peripherals included, we wanted to check out which portable PCs can be bought for that kind of money, with features and performance being worthy of the attribute “gaming”.
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Google Docs might get cloud printing and device sync
A buried part of the Google Docs source code has signalled Google's intentions to improve the web app, especially for mobile devices. The segment teases future plans to add third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices . Google has already established its own programming standard to handle the task, Cloud Print, but hasn't implemented it in a significant fashion so far. While the details of how the three systems would work, the combination is likely designed to support at least Android and Chrome OS as well as likely other platforms. Third-party app support may let offline software or outside websites tap into Google Docs to create text that's saved to a Google account, allowing a native mobile app to edit and save documents online.
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Samsung readies large Super AMOLED for tablets
Samsung revealed plans for its first large-size Super AMOLED screen. The seven-inch 1200x600 panel is designed for tablets and, like the four-inch version in the Galaxy S, theoretically provides the high contrast, high color and wide viewing angles of AMOLED but outdoor visibility like with LCD. Samsung has had to use LCD in the Galaxy Tab both because of the limits of regular AMOLED and the lack of larger developments. The seven-inch screen is due sometime in 2011 and may hinge on the launch of a 5.5-generation AMOLED production line due sometime within the first half of next year. Samsung is most likely to be its own main customer and could use Super AMOLED for future Galaxy Tab models, but as a display maker it could also support other customers and customize its screens based on their needs.
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Kinect uses less Xbox 360 CPU power than reported
The version of the Microsoft Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 that goes on sale tomorrow will use much less of the game system's processing power than has been reported, according to Microsoft. The company said the controller's CPU usage is in the single-digit range, and previous internet reports stated the Kinect would use between 10 to 15 percent of the Xbox's processing power.
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Apple delivers iOS 4.2 update to developers
Apple has released the updated iOS 4.2 firmware to developers, meaning consumers should be getting the update in the very near future. The release is marked build 8C134, and available for all iOS platforms including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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