(1) Can the regular Switch's Tegra chip have 4k upscale ability from day 1, but Nintendo did not see it necessary to use that feature at the time because most people have 1080p TVs.
It can. The dock cannot.
But here's the thing: the new dock might be able to (I'm gonna go ahead and say this actually isn't confirmed yet, despite that YouTube video; I need to see evidence the dock has a mux chip to select between one USB 3 lane/two DP lanes and four DP lanes). But why would it be left disabled
now, when the new dock is out? 4K adoption rates/market research isn't the answer; that's a reason to save on costs and not include the components in the first place, not to leave them turned off.
Enabling 4K later - like, well after the LAN dock releases in two days - doesn't make too much sense to me... but there is this unexposed setting in firmware added in April:
I would posit the following possibilities, given this:
-Nintendo intended to have 4K output enabled in time for the OLED model/LAN dock release but there's currently issues preventing it. It will be worked out later, and Nintendo will enable 4K as an output resolution with little fanfare.
-Nintendo tried supporting 4K output but found issues that cannot be worked out. It will not be added later.
-The setting was never intended for use with the LAN dock. The presence of a chip capable of muxing in the dock should tell us whether this is true or not. (
@Dakhil, you've been following teardowns more closely than I; any ideas here?)
(2) So Nintendo lied about SPECS? There is no way you will convince me of that. Why would they do that? Nintendo doesn't care about specs. It also doesn't make sense for them to lie about something so trivial. We wont agree on this one, so I wont continue any further.
I'm not talking about CPU or GPU. I'm talking about other potentially hidden features. It's curiosity in us that drives us to look deeper right?
Well, for one, if by "specs" you mean specs in terms of the power of the chip, Nintendo never really specified that in the first place. But we've known for years now through homebrew that it's the same TX1 included in the Shield and everything else that uses a TX1. Nintendo can't hide what the chip can do when it's not their software running on it
(3) I'm not denying its a Realtek chip. Is simply saying has anyone X-rayed and looked if there is something hidden in there? It may have the same labeling, but has anyone digged deeper? I guess the answer is "No" right?
If by X-ray you mean a die shot, then no, but it's frankly just not that simple. Chips are very, very complicated and you can't figure out much more than surface-level details by examining photos; attempting to figure out individual
functions of a chip via visual analysis when you don't even know what you're looking for would take an immensely long time, if it's possible at all. Die shots for GPUs and such are useful because Nvidia and AMD give presentations explaining the overview of how their chips work, and we can use this knowledge in conjunction with the die shot to glean a little more sometimes. We cannot do the same for this Realtek chip.
But ask yourself this: if Realtek made this chip with the intention to sell it to integrators, why would they hide anything from the product sheet? It just doesn't make business sense. They have nothing to hide.