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dahuman on 20 February 2017
Teriol said:
bonzobanana said:
Those images don't look right. The date on it of July 2016 is too old and there is no 'Nintendo' branding on the chips etc. This looks old and likely one of the early dev kits not a retail Switch unit. Confirms the dev kit has 4GB of memory and 25.6GB/s memory bandwidth for the dev kit but its not telling us what a retail unit has, hopefully the same especially after that news that Capcom requested more memory.

For the first time i agree with you, all Nintendo machines has the Nintendo logo on their chps, (nintendo IBM) etc, this is from july 2016  it is not the final devkit.

Nvidia doesn't license out their designs, Nintendo doesn't own it therefore it wouldn't be surprising to not see Nintendo on the chip. Nvidia also would be the ones to eat ARM's licensing costs and Nintendo wouldn't even have to worry about it.



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Rab on 20 February 2017

Wow HUGE battery



TomaTito on 20 February 2017

Why isn't this in the NSFW section?
So much bareness in that OP.



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SuperNova on 20 February 2017

This might actually lend more credence to the foxconn leak. If I remember correctly it talked about a large L-Shaped heat pipe bending towards the fan.
Not sure how easy something like that would be to guess...



maxleresistant on 20 February 2017

Unremovable battery is kind of a big no for me.

What is going to happen when the battery start to lose its efficacity? I'm going to have to open it like this?

I think I better wait for the next model.



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SuperNova on 20 February 2017
maxleresistant said:
Unremovable battery is kind of a big no for me.

What is going to happen when the battery start to lose its efficacity? I'm going to have to open it like this?

I think I better wait for the next model.

This battery looks easily replacable actually. Yeah you're going to have to open it up, but it has a simple connector and looks like it's not even glued in (although it's a bit hard to tell). This is leaps and bounds over battery replaceability in most modern phones and tablets and no worse than the 3DS.

This was never going to have a gamepadstyle upgradable battery. They put the biggest battery in there they could fit, while maintaining a sleek formfactor.



pray4mojo on 20 February 2017
IkePoR said:
Tagging till people smarter than I show up.

They're not more intelligent than you. They're just more knowledgable of computers. There's a difference.



maxleresistant on 20 February 2017
SuperNova said:
maxleresistant said:
Unremovable battery is kind of a big no for me.

What is going to happen when the battery start to lose its efficacity? I'm going to have to open it like this?

I think I better wait for the next model.

This battery looks easily replacable actually. Yeah you're going to have to open it up, but it has a simple connector and looks like it's not even glued in (although it's a bit hard to tell). This is leaps and bounds over battery replaceability in most modern phones and tablets and no worse than the 3DS.

This was never going to have a gamepadstyle upgradable battery. They put the biggest battery in there they could fit, while maintaining a sleek formfactor.

You can have a replaceable battery and have a sleek formfactor. A lot of phones have replaceable batteries.



IkePoR on 20 February 2017
pray4mojo said:
IkePoR said:
Tagging till people smarter than I show up.

They're not more intelligent than you. They're just more knowledgable of computers. There's a difference.

Very true.  I meant it that way but didn't type it that way.



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bonzobanana on 21 February 2017
dahuman said:
Teriol said:

For the first time i agree with you, all Nintendo machines has the Nintendo logo on their chps, (nintendo IBM) etc, this is from july 2016  it is not the final devkit.

Nvidia doesn't license out their designs, Nintendo doesn't own it therefore it wouldn't be surprising to not see Nintendo on the chip. Nvidia also would be the ones to eat ARM's licensing costs and Nintendo wouldn't even have to worry about it.

Totally disagree a customised Nvidia chip would at least get Nintendo on there in addition to Nvidia or even Nintendo branding alone. We know its not going to be exactly the same as Tegra but even if it was Nintendo would still be on there. We shall see how this turns out.