PC Graphics vs Ipad2?

[Cyber-Mav]

well, after using the ipad 2 for a while it makes me wonder why the desktop computer doesnt use a fully hardware accelerated canvas for all things. scrolling up and down web pages, and general menus is just sooo smooth its very enjoyable to do things on these tablets.

anyone else understand what i mean?

 

[Spenty]

Windows 8 will be geared towards this type of thing I think.

 

[ALXAndy]

It's quite amazing what the PowerVR can do tbh.

I have an Ipad 1, and whilst the graphics don't compete with a PC game you can see just how well OpenGL takes care of them on a yonks old GPU.

Rage HD looks amazing !

 

[edscdk]

Windows 8 will be geared towards this type of thing I think.

the next version of windows always fixes everything, its been like that for 20 years...

 

[Spenty]

the next version of windows always fixes everything, its been like that for 20 years...

Windows 8 if I recall correctly is geared towards tablets and portable devices. Windows 7 and previous versions weren't. That's the only reason I stated Windows 8 for.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

does the developer preview of windows 8 have a hardware accelerated GUI? would be interesting to see if win8 can really improve things in this regard.

 

[muon]

well, after using the ipad 2 for a while it makes me wonder why the desktop computer doesnt use a fully hardware accelerated canvas for all things. scrolling up and down web pages, and general menus is just sooo smooth its very enjoyable to do things on these tablets.

anyone else understand what i mean?

There''s no need to offload on PCs. Also one reason it is so smooth is because of kinetic scrolling necessitating it.

does the developer preview of windows 8 have a hardware accelerated GUI? would be interesting to see if win8 can really improve things in this regard.

I think it will cause more problems than its worth.

The other thing is that using a mouse wheel causing quite discrete scrolling, rather than the continuous scrolling you get in touch based browsers. Of course again, why that is done is obvious.

edit:

I knew IE9 used GPU acceleration!

It is fairy smooth, but it is slow.

Load engadget.com on IE9 and Chrome 17. Grab the slider on the right and scroll up and down fast. It exaggerates the effect but it shows the problem.