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Take the 1GHz Scorpion core residing in Qualcomm’s current flagship Snapdragon, the MSM8x55, duplicate it, overclock the resulting pair by 50 percent, and give them improved graphics in the form of Adreno 220. What do you get? A barnburner by the unsexy name of MSM8x60. Yes, the 1.5GHz Mobile Development Platform Qualcomm loosed on the world at CES earlier this year has found itself prostrate on a test bench, where it has produced some of the finest graphical performance scores yet seen on a mobile device. The taxing OpenGL ES 2.0 test you see above shows the new Snapdragon doubling the frame rates churned out by Motorola’s mighty Atrix 4G (which admittedly has to work harder thanks to its higher-res display) and completely embarrassing older generation hardware like the EVO 4G. That’s a theme carried on throughout AnandTech‘s benchmarking, which you may explore in full at the source link. If you’re wondering when this world-beating dual-core chip will be coming to market, the answer is that it’s already inside HTC’s imminently upcoming EVO 3D and Pyramid devices, albeit running at a tamer 1.2GHz. Exciting, eh?

P.S. – Do take note that the Qualcomm dev platform was plugged into the wall during these tests and was not subject to any power management software that may have otherwise restrained its performance as on the retail chips under test. Moreover, the Egypt benchmark can only run at native resolution, which is what’s causing some seemingly aberrant results such as the iPhone 4 (960 x 640) ranking below the iPhone 3GS (480 x 320).

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Most of the time when one product takes on another in a no-holds-barred face-off somebody walks away with a championship belt. Not this time. Here it’s Gunleik Groven, Norwegian filmmaker and photographer, comparing the RED One Mysterium X and the Arri Alexa, two pro-quality shooters that come in at a price semi-pro producers can afford — the RED clocking in at $42,485 the way Gunleik configured it, the Arri at $70,000. There are some obvious differences, like the RED shooting at 4K and the Arri at 1080p, but the vast majority of the comparisons here are far, far more subtle than that, meaning you’re just going to have to pore over the comparison on the other end of the source link yourself and download the gigabytes of sample footage that’s been thoughtfully provided. If you do need something of a conclusion, though, it’s this: “These are both excellent cameras we could only dream of 5 years back… you cannot really complain on the equipment if you don’t get your shot with either of these.”

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One of the things I use the most in Gmail is the "View as HTML" feature for previewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are attached to an email. This lets you scope out what a document is about without having to download it to your computer.

It does, however, have some limitations. One of the things this feature never did in the past was display images or graphs. That’s no longer true when you’re viewing a DOC file in an HTML format as seen in the screenshot above. I took one of our recent posts that we did this morning, copied the content into Microsoft Word, and saved it in a DOC format. Then I emailed it to myself and used the HTML preview to see how well it rendered the image.

Judging by the side-by-side comparison above I would say that the two results are pretty identical, and the View as HTML feature in Gmail just got a lot more useful! The bad news is that this feature only works for DOC files for the time being, and doesn’t seem to apply to spreadsheets or presentations. To get a preview of what those files you would need to use the specialized Google offerings, such as this one for presentations.

Now I would like to see Google do is add some support for the Office 2007 file formats. I’ve been receiving quite a few attachments with the DOCX filetype, and I have to download them in order to view the contents.

Source: Google Operating System

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You might recall we ran this comparison about a month back when HP’s TouchPad was announced, but now we’re back with a full set of 2011 devices as Apple’s brand new iPad 2 has joined the fray. There’s no need for excessive introductions, really, just leap past the break to get swalloped up by an avalanche of next-generation tablet specs.

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So far, AMD’s new Fusion chips have been all about the low-end, whether you’re talking in terms of price, performance or power consumption, but the company has a vision for its future that has these new Accelerated Processing Units dominating every segment of the market. In order to do that, AMD will need to overcome Intel’s latest generation of mainstream processors, the Core 2011 family we’re more familiar with under the Sandy Bridge codename. Before you rush past the break and watch AMD’s own comparison between said Intel hardware and the forthcoming quad-core Llano APU, be aware that processor performance can rarely be generalized from a single test alone and the one we’re witnessing is specifically geared to highlight the Fusion chip’s strengths. All that said, the workload demonstrated by AMD — a 3D game, HD video playback (plus post-processing on the Llano rig), Excel calculations, and some 3D modeling, all running simultaneously — is handled most impressively by the A8-3510MX APU, which even manages to use less power than Intel’s 2GHz Core i7-2630QM. See the video after the break.

[Thanks, Vygantas]

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