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We loved NVIDIA Shield‘s bone stock Jelly Bean OS in our review, but if you’re not a huge fan, NVIDIA’s now offering a way to dig in and customize your Shield’s OS even more. NVIDIA’s made the Shield’s software open source as of today, making the OS all the easier to customize. You’ll of course have to root your device and, ya know, have an idea of what you’re doing in the guts of a computer. NVIDIA warns new owners as much, saying, “To be sure, this is double-diamond stuff. If you’re not a coder or already set up with an Android development environment you should skip downloading these tools.”

The company’s blog post also notes that rooting your Shield or adding a bootloader will potentially void your device’s warranty, so hacker beware! Should the associated tasks and NVIDIA’s warnings not scare you off, the software is available right here. Our review video of the Shield is just below, in case you missed it last week.

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Software, HD, Mobile, NVIDIA

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Back in January NVIDIA described a unique plan, the chip maker said that it would design and develop Tegra devices itself which would then be sold through regional companies under their respective brands. Meaning that NVIDIA would not sell those tablets and smartphones under its own name, but it would be involved in all aspects of design and manufacturing. Since then we haven’t heard anything about such a device, but now a new NVIDIA device has been spotted in benchmarks, hinting that the chip maker might currently be testing its very own Android tablet.

The device is called NVIDIA TegraNote Premium, it is apparently powered by a 1.8GHz Tegra 3 processor, has a 1,280×800 touchscreen display and runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. The display resolution hints that this device may possibly be a tablet. Now we must consider two scenarios. Either the company has deviated from its original plans and will now not only design and make devices, it will also sell them under its own name. Or it is sticking to the original plans and is now internally testing one such device before regional companies slap their branding on it. Nothing can be said for sure, hopefully we’ll get to see more of this TegraNote Premium tablet in the near future. [Image via GSMInsider]

NVIDIA Reportedly Developing An Android Tablet original content from Ubergizmo.

MSI tentatively entered the world of thin and light gaming laptops with the GE40. With the newly launched GS70, the company is leaping in with both feet. The 17.3-inch portable is clearly built to take on the Razer Blade Pro, mating a big screen with a chassis that’s even lighter — at 5.7 pounds, the GS70 is a flyweight next to its 6.6-pound rival. While the system’s quad-core, Haswell-based Core i7 CPU, GeForce GTX 765M graphics and 128GB SSD match what Razer offers, MSI doubles the RAM to 16GB and complements its storage with a 750GB hard drive. That makes the GS70’s $1,800 base price a potential bargain — if you don’t mind losing the Blade Pro’s touchscreen trackpad, you’ll get more PC for the money.

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops, Intel, NVIDIA

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Source: MSI

You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Earlier today, tech media outlets were buzzing because Qualcomm’s VP Anand Chandrasekher presented a deck of slides (to a media group in Taiwan) that included a very specific message: among the things that are “dumb”, “Eight-core CPUs” make it to the top of the list.

This comes in the context of Qualcomm being under pressure from the press, and sometimes for the public, to release an “8-core” processor. Why? Basically because “8>4” – if you listen to the common wisdom. Samsung for example, has had ample marketing success with its Exynos Octa 5 “8-core” processor launched at CES 2013. Mediatek is another company that is getting a lot of attention lately because it claims that it will be the first company to launch what they call a “true 8-core” processor for mobiles (official product page). (more…)

Are More Cores, Better? original content from Ubergizmo.