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| DiBosco Jan 06, 2010 9:49 AM EDT |
This is what I was going on about a year or so ago. Ten hours' worth of battery life is something even the sheep who choose Windows on a netbook will take notice of. With MS not supporting ARMs, this could cause them [MS] big problems. These high end ARMs are more powerful than the Atoms for the same clock speed I believe, so even though it's only running at a 1 GHz, it should be plenty powerful enough. There'll soon be other similar machines along I'm sure. |
| hkwint Jan 06, 2010 10:00 AM EDT |
1gHz doesn't matter, what does is all the 'integrated' logic. Intel Atom chipsets (not the CPU's themselves) are the chips wasting the most Watts, and apart from that those ARM solutions have integrated GSM/WiFi/BlueTooth/2D/3D/Vid&Audio codecs, some of those solutions all one one chip where the CPU is also mounted. The Lenovo Skylight - as far as I can tell - has a QSD8250 or QSD8650. However, Qualcomm also announced the QSD8672. It's 30% faster than the 8650 (1.3gHz), consumes 30% less power, has even more integrated specialized cores on the SoC. And the ARM-solution providers will also come with dual-core ARM chips pretty soon (Cortex A9 MP, probably to be shipped Q1 '11). These new Qualcomm chipsets will be capable of HD playback, just like the TI OMAP 4 platform. |
| Steven_Rosenber Jan 06, 2010 7:06 PM EDT |
If computers going forward could free up the CPU from processing video, we'd all be better off. |
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