Aava Mobile's Intel Moorestown prototype plays World of Warcraft beautifully (video)
By Darren Murph 
posted June 5th 2010 10:02AM
posted June 5th 2010 10:02AM
posted June 5th 2010 10:02AM
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is it wrong to want one of those inside of a we7 tablet?
@arash oh sorry my bad thats actually WES7
@arash
if only I was a midget then these new gadgets would be like uber tablets
@arash thus begins the ERA of true smart-phones .... should be able to handle pretty well tooo after achieving this ..
@AnAnt *handle flash ... when will we get a edit button ?
+1 for the edit button!
@AnAnt If you would just slow down and relax. Proofread your own post before you hit that submit button. The staff has explained this many times in the past.
@annoynimous i was talking about using moorestown inside of a WES7 tablet. i think i know this phone is NOT a tablet
@slipdisc
Seriously the staff has exlpained this
@paulfalgout
*explained tihs
@paulfalgout
*this
@paulfalgout +1
@slipdisc
Or just get the edit button..
@arash
Considering the iPhone would last 10 hours on the same battery, this is no big deal. They use 10x the battery power to deliver 1.5x the performance. No thanks.
@JS This also shows you have a comment 10 times stupider than all the stupid comments in the stupid universe combined. The point is that a PHONE and run a fully fledged PC game and last a reasonable amount of time. iPhone games, even the best, have crappy graphics ad poor performance, and can only run the best apps for an hour before the dreaded "low battery" popup. Apple fanboy. Apparently, Apple fanboys are so stupid that they fail to comprehend anything that is not shiny and doesn't have the picture of a fruit.
@JS Stfu. Read the article, Apple fanboy. Engadget should ban our IP for the SHEER STUPIDITY of your STUPID COMMENT. Really, people like you irritate me. That's why your comment is ranked down into the last frikin layer of oblivion. If you still didn't understand, te point is that a phone can run a fully fledged computer PC game. And the iPhone can't do that, no matter how shiny it is. No offence, but your comment just really annoyed me.
hello there sexy...
@oldpass56, ... wanna kill all humans?
Mr. T and his Mohawk Grenade you fool!
@incognito
The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that... IS... irony!
@incognito
where is this going?
To the future my man, to the future!
@Ermal Turkeshi
somewhere where they don't need roads
Anyone notice the PowerVr watermark on the Shader demo?
Interesting, since PowerVr is usually at home with ARM/TI.
Is this Moorestown powered with PowerVr GPU?
@Kangal
Probably, I'm pretty sure the Z5xx series atoms were.
Impressive
My iPhone rendered a blue Lego brick impressively. Beat that!
@TheTabe Only problem is, you need a mouse and keyboard. A D-pad isn't gonna cut it for WoW
@bravokiloromeo
bluetooth keyboard and mouse... they do exist.
@bravokiloromeo Well you can get a keyboard for the iPa... Oh wait.
@jjrudey
Wait what? You can.
@JW
You mean that giant-ass dock?
I think he meant a usable, portable KB.
Like the Great BT model that Apple makes.
@jon
re: "I think he meant a usable, portable KB."
I'm pretty sure JW meant exactly that: a usable, portable KB; like the great BT model that Apple makes. That giant-ass dock is an extra peripheral for those who don't have a BT keyboard. If you need help pairing your BT keyboard to your iPad, here's some helpful instructions:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/5772/ipad-how-to-pair-connect-any-bluetooth-keyboard/
@jjrudey
re: "Well you can get a keyboard for the iPa... Oh wait."
Waiting for a demo? Here's one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ZxrRG9hmM
@wrathkind
That's good to know. I thought the iPad had the same BT limitations that the iPhone does.
The iPhone can also pair to a Bluetooth keyboard...
what OS is this running then?
@oldpass56, '... from within Moblin...' if I understood correctly. So, in practice - MeeGo...
@oldpass56 Moblin,won't take long to change
@incognito - Does that mean that you will be able to run any windows software from within Moblin!? Does it have a really good windows emulator within it?
@Marko yeah, it's called Wine. Like in all Linux systems ...
@Marko not its more than likely running natively via wine. I doubt morestown can emulate x86 environment (virtualise?), or at least at a useful speed.
WOW is probably the best supported game on wine.
@Marko No one will answer you until you change that godawful icon.
@aigarius what does wine stand for again?
@Marko
It's Linux and it's probably wine.
@fourthletter
Wine Is Not an Emulator
it's recursive
@Marko, not in a native way, but it can chew through most of Windows software using Wine just like your regular desktop can. Wine Is Not an Emulator! It's a simple translator of system calls. Given that at the core of MeeGo will be Qt, people might very well start writing software using the Qt toolkit - it adds almost no overhead and still allows you to compile the same code for Windows, Mac OSX, desktop Linux, Maemo/MeeGo, Symbian... If the software was developed using the Qt toolkit from the start, you wouldn't even need Wine...
@xir, Moorestown platform IS x86, so it has nothing to emulate. Wine is there just to translate Win API to Linux (POSIX/X.Org) calls, no need for Qemu to emulate the x86 environment.
@Awesomesquared
W.I.N.E: W(i(s) n(ot) e(mulation)(i(s) n(ot) e(mulation)(i(s) n(ot) e(mulation)(i(s) n(ot) e(mulation)) I(s) N(ot) E(mulation).
@The Madman, in order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.