FluffyPanda posted on May 9 2006 at 11:35 AM said:Damnit, I just came here to post that... Curse my metal body, I was too slow.
Anyway, it seems like Craig has been handing out the press releases. I'm not so sure about the 6 hours gameplay, UK release date or 240MHz processor claims (lets face it, they're never actually clocked at that unless you do it yourself), but then again this is marketing and you should always expect the truth to be stretched so much it groans.
FluffyPanda posted on May 9 2006 at 11:35 AM said:Damnit, I just came here to post that... Curse my metal body, I was too slow.
FluffyPanda posted on May 9 2006 at 05:42 AM said:It's fair enough, they may as well be sold as 240mhz processors, but when someone buys his unit and the included software only takes it up to 200mhz... It's a little odd.
It's kind of like AMD selling 3 GHz chips with "3 GHz!!!!!11" on the packaging but clocking them at 2.6 GHz so they throw out less heat and expecting that you'll figure out how to increase the clock yourself.
It's not dishonest, but it is slightly... odd.
Squidge posted on May 9 2006 at 02:18 PM said:If he really wanted to stretch things, he could always say it's a 400mhz unit, which, technically, it is. It's just spread across two processors![]()
MSweeney posted on May 9 2006 at 05:10 PM said:Honestly though, I still think 200Mhz is pretty darn fast when it comes to hand-held units. Im not sure how fast the PSP is clocked at but I will never consider buying one until Sony open up the SDK so 'BOO' to Sony.
You know what, for future press releases I think "Scalable Dual-Core CPU running at up to 240MHz for amazing performance or as low as 100MHz for great battery life on low-drain applications" sounds even more snazzy.craigix posted on May 9 2006 at 06:12 PM said:They all run at 240mhz, but out the box the menu runs at 100mhz. It's upto the user to select the cpu speed they want in emus etc. We all know this. If it ran at 240mhz all the time it would be a waste of batteries.
Squidge posted on May 9 2006 at 03:10 PM said:MSweeney posted on May 9 2006 at 05:10 PM said:Honestly though, I still think 200Mhz is pretty darn fast when it comes to hand-held units. Im not sure how fast the PSP is clocked at but I will never consider buying one until Sony open up the SDK so 'BOO' to Sony.
Sony run the PSP at 222Mhz, but it's capable of 333Mhz - they just don't allow that speed for commercial games (again, battery life worries). Lots of emu's use the faster speed however.
Squidge posted on May 9 2006 at 12:18 PM said:If he really wanted to stretch things, he could always say it's a 400mhz unit, which, technically, it is. It's just spread across two processors![]()
I think the arrangement with 240mhz is that craig has never noticed a 2x that will not go that fast, so may as well market it as such.
FluffyPanda said:You know what, for future press releases I think "Scalable Dual-Core CPU running at up to 240MHz for amazing performance or as low as 100MHz for great battery life on low-drain applications" sounds even more snazzy.
You could even throw in "overclocker-friendly".
Incidentally, how many hits have you got from the register so far? That's got to be great publicity.
DaveC posted on May 10 2006 at 02:00 AM said:While it technically does have 2 cores only one is useable for games because of GPH's brilliant decision to not give the second core some memory rendering it rather useless for games and emus![]()
Not actually GPH's fault... It's a standard chip from MagicEyes, you should be flaming themDaveC posted on May 10 2006 at 03:00 AM said:I am glad he didn't as that would be real dodgy advertising. While it technically does have 2 cores only one is useable for games because of GPH's brilliant decision to not give the second core some memory rendering it rather useless for games and emusSquidge posted on May 9 2006 at 12:18 PM said:If he really wanted to stretch things, he could always say it's a 400mhz unit, which, technically, it is. It's just spread across two processors![]()
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