Comments on: Pixel Qi Low-power / Daylight Screens go to Mass Production

By: SPM

SPM — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:52:40 +0000

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“So your processor power consumption thing is not really true.

With Pixel Qi, the power consumption of the processor becomes the absolute biggest factor of the device. Especially also while DCON process (where the processor down-clocks itself to zero when unused) is easier to implement with ARM than X86.”

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It true if you don’t have the Pixel Qi display, which I think is what the article was saying.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:19:01 +0000

With ARM processor and Pixel Qi, the 3-cell Laptop will last 30 hours on a battery, while the similar Intel powered one will last less than 10 hours.

So your processor power consumption thing is not really true.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:48:16 +0000

Here is what Jepsen is complaining about:
“MobileMark seems to (according to our laptop-making customers) require that we also crank the backlight up for the power measurements to the same level as other screens that aren’t reflective and in fact are hard to read even at 60 nits backlit brightness in roomlight – this even though with no backlight the Pixel Qi screen can exceed 60 nits of brightness without any “wash-out” or annoying glare.”

http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/

By: Nait

Nait — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:46:23 +0000

>go to Mass Production

There is no new info on their site.
http://www.pixelqi.com/
only new pictures on blog:
http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1

By: focus

focus — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:04:35 +0000

I like very much the sunlight readable part

By: Brit

Brit — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:27:03 +0000

the manufactures will just start using smaller batteries too pad profit margins & we will be right back in the same situation.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:37:34 +0000

Mulitouch is a separate layer that has nothing to do with screen production, it’s developer dependent process. Apple has no justification to charge premium if it will have this screen because –everyone– will have this screen as an option for the reason that this is mass produced item and not something super expensive to make.

By: olivier

olivier — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:21 +0000

Do they make a multi-touch version of those screens ? I keep thinking they are probably the only way Apple could justify the high price they probably want to charge for their upcoming tablet.