"The graphics chip is at the center of Acer's new CineReal system, which offloads BD playback to the GPU"
Someone wanna translate that into non-marketing speak? I didn't know Acer was in the GPU business... thought HD offloading to GPU was handled through chipset drivers???
Pretty sure it means it will have one of the new Intel 4 series chipsets (probably the G45) which have hardware h.264 and VC1 decode acceleration, meaning they'll take a lot of strain off the cpu when you're watching an HD movie, or any other video file which uses those codecs.
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"The graphics chip is at the center of Acer's new CineReal system, which offloads BD playback to the GPU"
Someone wanna translate that into non-marketing speak? I didn't know Acer was in the GPU business... thought HD offloading to GPU was handled through chipset drivers???
Pretty sure it means it will have one of the new Intel 4 series chipsets (probably the G45) which have hardware h.264 and VC1 decode acceleration, meaning they'll take a lot of strain off the cpu when you're watching an HD movie, or any other video file which uses those codecs.
good to know... i've been meaning to build myself a HTPC. guess i found my mainboard chipset!
They are talking about the included GPU, 512MB NVIDIA 9650m GS graphics. It decodes HD so your CPU doesn't have to.