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2012-03-07, 21:54
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-07, 22:12 by Maetrik.)
oh yes you're right. well then it even more is a reason not to buy it if you own an ATV2. guess the improvement will not be that big, but we will see a soon as it is jailbroken D
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It might be ok. I still use the ATV1 with Crystalcard as much as the ATV2 because the Geforce 7 in the ATV1 renders the UI better for my taste. I have never bothered looking at how the UI looks on and iphone 4s as I dont have one. Really my only complaint with the ATV2 is the UI is sluggish, if the "up to 7 times improvement in the GPU" would smooth out the UI I'd wait for the jailbreak and grab an ATV3.
What I find a bit concerning is the single core stuff. Not because of any potential hindrance to the XBMC experience but that initial the dual A5 was something that was like 75% more expensive to produce then the A4 at launch. In mass production now I would think the price of it and the other internals would have come down to the point we would get a dual A5 for $99. Almost seems a misprint.
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damn it, this has made me angry! Been waiting patiently for the new ATV and and are we now thinking it won't actually be able to handle any better skins?
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bit of a let down on the specs thought it would be a bit of a better leap over atv2, guess we have to wait and see if any real world performance boost over atv2 with XBMC.
if it results in snappier menu navigation and not as many crashes with certain skins i'll upgrade.
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Single core A5 + 100mb ethernet = not a good enough reason to upgrade
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It's not a question of raw processing power, it's a question if the graphics processing portion is hardware capable of full bandwidth 1080p. My old Sigma based Popcorn Hour can handle uncompressed Blu-Ray and so can my Samsung smart TV.
Hopefully the new AppleTV is based on the A5X processor, because that bad boy is designed to pump out 2048x1536 on 'the new' iPad. If that is the case then I'd be confident in saying that the new AppleTV shouldn't have a problem with full rate 1080p. In that case it's just a question of XBMC developers accessing the low-level functions of the video decoding chip.
I believe it should have the A5x chip, because the A5 as it was could just barely squeak out 1080p and I believe the old AppleTV was based on the A4 that is found in the original iPad and iPhone 4.
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Until they have new tricks to do with it (besides 1080p, which is nice, but not all that revolutionary compared to the competition), what would it need a faster processor for? It would just make it cost more.
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Keep the fingers crossed about the Graphics chip...
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Also, new iOS 5.0 firmware has just dropped for ATV2, wonder if this is matching the UI of the new ATV3 we have just seen?
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mhh guess why apple doesn't want to push the performance that much with atv3? Because they don't need it for what it should do...
Lets wait for the jailbreak ... then maybe i'm willing to give it a shot...
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