The Verge has reported today that Microsoft is creating a 7-inch gaming tablet called the Xbox Surface. Sources supposedly confirmed the plans, with the company already in development of the tablet. The tablet will run a version of Windows 8, but not Windows 8 Pro since the tablet will be based on an ARM SoC. It is unclear whether the tablet will pack Windows RT, however. Specifications ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by Bozobub:Oh for heavens sake people will never learn consoles are not the same as computers. When the device is designed to do a specific task and only that task and run only software specifically designed for it you do not have to have such high specs
Oh, for heavens' sake. Gimp the RAM again?! Console devs never learn.
Quote:RAM is cheap sure, for standardized RAM that will easily fit into notebooks/PCs and Apple devices. But proprietary parts made for consoles (which are all different shapes and sizes for each console), raises the prices of RAM as they are designed specifically to fit into that console and that console only. That raises the cost quite significantly and so quantity and space is limited to the basics systems need for functioning.
3) RAM is quite cheap, and adding RAM is the one of the easiest ways to improve the performance of most computing devices, general-purpose or not.
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