NVIDIA Shield Releases July(ish?)... For $299

[ams23]

The review looked great. better than I expect. Battery Life is the most impressive.

I am pretty impressed with the battery life too. Keep in mind that the ipad 4 has ~ 48% higher battery capacity than Shield. So even with this large deficit in battery capacity, Shield is able to achieve a bit better battery life in the gaming benchmark (GLB2.5 1080p Offscreen) than ipad 4. Now, obviously the screen's consumption makes a difference here, but still an impressive result nevertheless. What can I say, it is going to be really fun playing around with this device.

 

[Raghu]

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nvidia+Shield+Teardown/16212/1

Wasnt expecting Magnesium...

 

[ams23]

Shield is in the house From what I can tell, it appears to be ~ 15% faster than NVIDIA's reference Tegra 4 tablet. Very nice device, and ridiculously good for a first effort. So far I have more than a dozen games and several songs installed and have only spent ~ $20 beyond the purchase price of the unit.

 

[sontin]

In the google Play store there is a App which allow me to put workload on the CPU cores.
nVidia is now much more aggressive with clocking:
1 Thread - 1912 MHz
2 Threads - 1800 MHz
4 Threads - 1412 Mhz

TDP is 5W with 4 threads.

 

[prism]

I still don't see this being a sell in 2013. 2006 it would've done really well. I think this thing is pointless today, what with all of the similar and more capable options out there.

Same here. I also think it's just too big, bulky and dated looking, like the original Xbox's first controller.

On a side note, why does everyone in the tech world have to call every gadget a "piece of kit?"

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

Thinking about getting this, or something like this in the future. Does anyone know how much better wireless AC is than wireless N when it comes to something like this?

If anyone is wondering Newegg is selling the N66U for $125 right now, which is why im asking. Debating whether I should wait for a deal on the AC66U.

http://slickdeals.net/f/6215532-ASU...-me-checkout-Newegg-FS-Also-now-130-on-Amazon

 

[ViRGE]

Well, this is surprising. The first production run of Shield actually sold out.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57...d-selling-out-in-stores-but-were-making-more/

Jen-Hsun Huang, speaking during a conference call following Nvidia's earnings announcement, said that everything Nvidia has shipped to retail partners has already sold out. It's only several thousand units, he said, but Nvidia is ramping up production to get more Shields into stores.

It's admittedly a small initial batch, but I'm surprised NVIDIA even sold that many.

 

[Chrono]

Ok bought my shield from newegg... played a few android games with it... ok it's meh... can't stream from steam because I don't have a 650 series GTX card and up... nor an i3+.
Don't like:
heavy
small screen
lack of tegra4 games
useless magnetic "shield"
big

like:
speaks are tiny but LOUD
screen is pretty nice for being a 720p screen

Looks like I'll wait for a 10" tablet instead.

 

[ams23]

It has been known for months and months now that one will need a Kepler-class (GTX 650 on up) graphics card to handle PC game streaming, so you really should have done some research before buying. And everything else you listed is already well known too. It should have been obvious that Shield is no tablet!