[geeks] iPad - a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Mark Benson]

On 29 Jan 2010, at 15:44, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> Of course, more power efficient than ION2 (but probably not as  
> efficient
> as the A4) would be to use the Intel chipset combined with a Broadcom
> BCM70015, which does all major video decoding, at HD resolutions, for
> under a watt.

Of course, and it'd probably have been as good, but I refer you back  
to my suspicions (and that's all they are tbh) that Intel don't allow  
closed systems. It may not be the case, it may just be that Intel =  
EFI = easy to 'customise'. I'm only going off what AppleTV is sd as (a  
TV appliance) and what it is in reality (a low spec underclocked  
Dothan PC).

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