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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2011, 11:36:16 pm »
I think Nintendo took the advantage that most of their games were more oriented for kid-like games that didN't require good graphics as much and spent most of their time trying to find an innovative way to entertain people, and the hardware suffered. Once new systems comes out the Wii will fall behind pretty quick in sales, though, and now they compete vs the Kinect and PS Move.

And yeah fonts are adjustable on the Nspire. I just mean that if TI decides to use a higher res screen, they'll need to make sure to do like Casio and adjust text size in consequence.

And I'm glad to hear that there's no fanboyism intended. Sometimes online some comments comes accross as that since this happens a lot on game/programming-oriented sites.

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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2011, 11:41:46 pm »
On the topic of resolution, I'm pretty sure I read on TI's site that the screen is still 320x240 pixels. Understandable, because otherwise it would be pretty hard to make the OS compatible with both old and new models if the resolution was different.
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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2011, 11:44:54 pm »
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I think Nintendo took the advantage that most of their games were more oriented for kid-like games that didN't require good graphics as much and spent most of their time trying to find an innovative way to entertain people, and the hardware suffered.
That is quite likely, however the other possibility is that it is far cheaper to use older, slower components, thus increasing net profit.
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Once new systems comes out the Wii will fall behind pretty quick in sales, though, and now they compete vs the Kinect and PS Move.
I'm sure they are working on a motion sensing peripheral right now.

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And yeah fonts are adjustable on the Nspire. I just mean that if TI decides to use a higher res screen, they'll need to make sure to do like Casio and adjust text size in consequence.
If they ever choose to use a high quality, high resolution screen I'm sure they would make the fonts readable. Such an event is exceedingly unlikely, given TI's cheap habits, because high quality screens are very expensive.
« Last Edit: April 05, 2011, 11:45:29 pm by mikehill2003 »

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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2011, 11:45:45 pm »
On the topic of resolution, I'm pretty sure I read on TI's site that the screen is still 320x240 pixels. Understandable, because otherwise it would be pretty hard to make the OS compatible with both old and new models if the resolution was different.

Yep, the screen definitely is still 320x240! :)


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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2011, 08:39:03 am »
Here's a three-minute video of CX hardware action that I found on TI's YouTube channel.



I facepalmed when I heard what music they had picked...

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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2011, 12:37:09 pm »
Well, at least the screen's response time is better.
It looks like the CX is still underpowered, as there is still lag in the menus. Also, the 3d graphing resolution and speed was kinda lame. I really hope the CX2 will have at least a 500Mhz ARM9 CPU... See video below for what even a crappy first-gen iPhone can do:

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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2011, 03:14:34 pm »
Well, at least the screen's response time is better.
It looks like the CX is still underpowered, as there is still lag in the menus. Also, the 3d graphing resolution and speed was kinda lame. I really hope the CX2 will have at least a 500Mhz ARM9 CPU... See video below for what even a crappy first-gen iPhone can do:

TI isn't exactly known for writing optimized code. But aside from that, the iPhone has a 3D graphics processor. It's not really fair to compare that to a software renderer.
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Re: a video about the cx or something
« Reply #22 on: April 07, 2011, 03:59:47 pm »
I'm pretty sure that the application I posted a video of did not use the iPhone's GPU to create the graph. It was using OpenGL to draw it, but the CPU did all of the computation.

It's 2011. Three years ago I could buy an iPod touch for $200 with a 400Mhz CPU and an OpenGL 1.1 GPU. Today, $200 gets me an iPod with a 1Ghz CPU clocked down to 800Mhz, and OpenGL ES 2. The games I've been able to make for the current gen iPod can't even run on the older ones, because the hardware has improved so much.

Apple has at least been improving the hardware on their products. TI has not been keeping up.
The Nspire CX's memory and screen are better then the older models, but the processor appears severely outdated.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2011, 04:09:49 pm by mikehill2003 »