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GRANT BRICKMAN: Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld is on sale, and the price tag has its own spec sheet.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld is on sale from 1,299 euros. Gary is in the block world to size it up. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: That is the entry price only: small CPU and GPU, 512 GB SSD. Acer sells several configurations. ▶
GARY: Gravel Gary, deep underground. Intel Arc G3 or G3 Extreme, Arc B370 or B390 graphics, raytracing, XeSS 3. Graphics: great. Wallet: critical. ▶
GARY: On the file footage: the 8-inch touch display, 1,920 by 1,200, 120 hertz, VRR, 500 nits, Gorilla Glass on top. Looks great, like torchlight. ▶
GARY: Up to 24 GB of LPDDR5X, SSD up to a terabyte, two fans, and TMR sticks, so no stick drift is supposed to happen. Windows 11 Home inside. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: No stick drift. Our station's 1987 weather map drifted for years, and nobody offered us a refund. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Different kind of drift, Grant. Also, price comparisons so far list only the 24 GB variants. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Quite. A handheld of that calibre, one hopes, comes with a charger the size of the handheld. Back to you, Greta. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Sam Altman visited Samsung, which makes the memory he talked about, two days after the remark.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Sam Altman has been to Samsung, days after the RAM remark. The AI keeps a busy diary. Vera, to the board. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For viewers just joining: we first told you about the RAM remark earlier today. Now Samsung has hosted Altman in person. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Samsung hosted Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday, at its training centre in Yongin, south of Seoul. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The theme, per The Next Web: how AI will change the next ten years, and what companies should choose to do. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, did they discuss the RAM? Someone in that room must have brought it up. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The report doesn't say. It notes the podcast went out two days earlier, with Altman calling DRAM in people's own computers quite terrible. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: DRAM is the memory chip Samsung makes. Earlier today we reported Altman's point that PC memory is used only some of the time. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And what did Altman actually say in the room? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Samsung published nothing Altman said and named none of the executives present. The detail comes from a statement on its Korean newsroom. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Samsung frames it as training: managers' judgement and execution matter, so presidents should learn AI themselves. The rest is open. ▶
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