http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010...+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2)) The device is already jailbroken, this makes it the cheapest ios device. Plus it can run iphone apps, etc. It seems like it's the ultimate mini console for iphone games. $99, crack it, enjoy your new console.
Where's the touchpad, though? It's interesting from a technical perspective but there's a long way to go before this becomes a viable alternative to other ios devices for gaming.
How powerful IS it, though? Surely it isn't capable of THAT much, it's just a stream box, right? Regardless: awesome.
What someone could do is invent a wiimote app for the IOS. This would allow you to play the touchscreen games on your hdtv with similar input. You could also make a 360/dual shock controller app that adds an arrow like a mouse pointer for the touchscreen input. In that wired article they mention that the apple tv software looks compatable with the ipad. Makes you wonder how far in advance apple plans their software and just trickles out the features as months go on. If they just unleasehed all the features at once, it would be fantastic and make apple look abit less money hungry.
Not quite as powerful from what I can gather. Yes its the same chip but we don't know the speed till someone cracks it open. Its not got 1 gig ram either. But its pretty close to the iPhone 4 hardware.
The original Apple TV system had some pretty good specs. I would imagine the new one will be quite powerful unless they've done some serious software optimisation.
Nice, and now that someone got ChromeOS (linux basically) running on the iPad this could make a dirt cheap HTPC of sorts to run HD video and some emulation. As the A4 inside shouldnt be underclocked, but it might only have 256MB of RAM compared to the iphone's 512 Come to think of it, this must be the only subsidized product apple makes.
I didn't think google had released Chrome OS yet, or are you talking about that open-source thing that they call ChromeOS for some reason?
iFixit have already ripped one open. - 8GB Samsung K9LCG08U1M NAND Flash chip - Apple A4 processor K4X2G643GE - 256MB RAM - Broadcom BCM4329XKUBG 802.11n WiFi/Bluetooth/FM chip
Chromium is what it is, a development version of chrome thats still in alpha. Theres no difference between the two, even the wiki article uses the same screenshot for both articles.
I just love a good semantics argument. Really, I jest! My point is that they have two names for a reason. Otherwise they'd use the same name.
Isn't Chromium[OS] the OpenSource project with the Browser and Operating System, and Chrome the Google built of said project? Now ChromiumOS on Apple-TV, interesting.
ChromiumOS was released by google as an alpha, the final will change to Chrome. If you ask me it would be less confussing if Chrome was left for the browser and Chromium for the OS. But I bet the idiots at marketing cant even pronounce chromium to begin with... Moar liek trolling...
