nVIDIA SHIELD™ Portable 2 - Coming soon?


Strigoi said:
Askarus said:
I was looking for other manufacturers but if I take a 17'' model it'll also be at about 3000€.
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http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ they ship to Germany, feel free to give them a try.
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Looks good, thanks.

Only downside: They screwed up the number block (Zero only one key wide).

Such stuff is important for me.

And it's only 17''.

But Alienware is the only 18'' available and they miss some features this one has.

I'll open up an other thread when I want to buy hat thing.

In about two months ...
 
FaeMinx said:
Askarus said:
In about two months ...
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Oh, so no rush then... I concur 2016 will be a good year to get a new laptop. ;)


=~. O =
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Unfortunately that`s too late.

I can't play any game on Linux as all I want to play doesn't support the open source driver.

Catalyst doesn't support Linux any more (recent Kernel and xorg).

I want to wait until the next high end Maxwell Card (nvidia) comes out that has full directX12 support and maybe is 20nm.

Don't know if I want to wait for Percival to come.

Would be awesome but my Laptop is sooo old now.
 
Back to the Shield.

Is it clocked down?

It's a tablet so it has no big cooling system inside.
 
There's a "magnesium heat shield" layer running the entire length of the device under the screen. Its not the best conductor of heat, but at the same time it's not a big insulator of heat either. Think it allows just enough through so the device gets warm and dissipates the heat through the entire surface area of the glass screen. (A luxury the pyra wont have) I'm sure many dollars went into r&d to find a material with the right balance.
 
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It actually dissipates heat all over and does not really even get that warm (compared to something like a MacBook Air).


They have done some impressive thermal work with it, plus the K1 seems like it offers fantastic performance (go check the benchmarks to see some awesome numbers) so I imagine the chip is running at very low utilization almost all the time.


The shield table seems like a great device so far.
 
I wonder what the K1 with the denver cores will end up in. I agree the tablet was a bit woodscrews, but only because their controller is so bland. Paired with a decent controller it shouldnt be half bad. But you would still need somewhere to mount it.

And by that i mean the tablet to something. Not the controller to the tablet. If that was the goal they might aswell go with making it a good clamshell.
 
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There's quite a few reviews doing the rounds now & all I've seen so far have been overwhelmingly positive.. that's when the too good to be true part of me usually kicks in, but that being said I'll still probably end up getting one when they release the 64bit variety even though my Tegra Note 7 serves me perfectly well atm, will probably wait & see what other makers do with the tech first though.

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Supposedly HTC have an event planned for Oct 8th , which everyone is saying will be the release of the Nexus 9 using a 64bit K1. If there is going to be a 
Shield 2 , it should be soon after or thereabouts
 
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