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...if you have a GPU in your netbook
by snissn 16y ago
...if you have a GPU in your netbook
- nkassis 16y agoThey have a mechanism to detect if it's present or not. For example, some cards don't have OpenGL drivers so they created ANGLE to fix that. They also have software rendering which can be reenabled if needed.
- snissn 16y agosorry, the unstated and unrealized premise of my reply was that this is good and great, but that there are also legacy issues of what technology people actually will use the web browser on. ChromeOS for example may mostly be on netbooks without GPUs. However, at the same token this might be a good catalyst for even cell phones and netbooks to have them, as the iPad seems to [quick google search] so ultimately GPU may be the killer stat on mobile, although it probably is already ,i'm just a rambling software dev
- jrockway 16y agoNetbooks have GPUs. The Intel GPU is probably most common and least performant, but it can still accelerate OpenGL to faster-than-software speeds. And, new netbooks are shipping with nVidia Ion, which is quite fast. (I can play 1080p h.264 on my nettop with an Ion GPU.)