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Answer» Could we be in the beginning of a major manufacturer price war or is this just generating buzz for the upcoming holiday season of spending? Future Android tablets with Intel inside will approach two-digit pricing, packing a new -- as yet unannounced -- chip, Intel said Tuesday. My question. Are these aimed at "serious" users or are they going to be stripped down tablets heavily bundled with OEM software? I'm not totally against OEM software bundles. Without it we would not see what is considered to be low prices now on higher end tablets and phones. I just don't see 4 or $500 models dropping down to $99. I sense lower end tablets with the best available HARDWARE. That's good but it's probably not going to appeal to someone who is already willing to spend upwards of $350. They might make good "on-the-go" tablets. Leave your expensive rig at home and carry around the cheap but functional model. I am interested in one of these if it doesnt use an ARM processor but instead Intel Atom able of running Windows to play around with. I have been looking for a small low power use system/device that can run as a server which does not need to be powerful, but the project wont work with an ARM based processor. I have been looing at this mini computer for the server. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101118 I will probably go with the mini computer instead since the storage capacity and processing power of such a tablet may require an embedded stripped down OS to run on it though, and the minicomputer makes more sense. But I like to tinker around and test the limits of hardware so I would pick one up for $100 to mess around with and see if turning one into a mini server device works for a server that has mostly idle time and little local network traffic. Currently I have a old Pentium 3 laptop doing this, but I dont like that it runs hot even when at idle and even when telling the bios to operate 100mhz less in green mode at 500mhz vs 600mhz and the fans are all working, I opened it up thinking maybe a fan wasnt spinning, but its a Dell Pentium 3 LapWarmerThey also recently announced you will be able to OC SSD HDD's... Intel will do anything to keep itself on Page One of Tech journals...and i don't see either happening soon...Quote from: patio on September 11, 2013, 03:36:27 PM Intel will do anything to keep itself on Page One of Tech journals... I kinda got that feeling also.I already have a "$100 Android tablet". It has an ARM cpu and plays 1080 video. I don't get it. Why would a $100 Intel Android be something anybody would want? Why would you not like an ARM design? Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 23, 2013, 10:35:03 PM Why would a $100 Intel Android be something anybody would want?The CPU architecture probably doesn't make a huge difference in this case (unlike in the case of say Windows RT) because Android Applications are not native Applications but Are Java applications that run on the Dalvik VM. Quote Why would you not like an ARM design?ARM Processors typically use less power, but as a result are a bit slower. So you get longer battery life, but depending on the specifics of the tablet you might encounter performance issues. Usually this isn't an issue since Tablets don't generally run a bunch of programs at the same time anyway. Intel CPUs use a bit more power but their CPUs have traditionally been built with Performance as an up-front consideration. Interestingly, ARM Holdings doesn't actually manufacture chips- they design chips and license out the chip design and their Instruction set to other vendors. One could presume that this could introduce minor inconsistencies between different ARM chips; this may be why you sometimes need a specially-compiled version of an OS for certain models. One of the biggest reasons for Android tablets to use ARM processors is because ARM-based processors can have accelerated Java bytecode execution- this executes Java bytecode instructions directly on the ARM CPU, which will no doubt make Android Applications run loads faster when fully implemented, and would probably eliminate any speed advantage x86/x64 would have otherwise. Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 24, 2013, 06:21:29 AM ARM Holdings A British company. The name was originally an acronym for Acorn RISC Machine and after the name Acorn was dropped, Advanced RISC Machine. Acorn were the people behind the BBC Micro and the 1987 Acorn Archimedes which used the first production chip design, the ARM2. Thank you both, Salmon Trout and BC_Programmer. I think this means that INTELL is struggling to get ahead in the current TEND toward smaller, more personal devices. The last point BC made is something I wanted to express, but he said it better. Namely, when you have a good byte-code language with a large number of developers, you can eventually modify the hardware to favor the software. BC said it this way: Quote One of the biggest reasons for Android tablets to use ARM processors is because ARM-based processors can have accelerated Java bytecode execution- this executes Java bytecode instructions directly on the ARM CPU, which will no doubt make Android Applications run loads faster when fully implemented, and would probably eliminate any speed advantage x86/x64 would have otherwise. Also of interest and within the range of this topic: Quote Apple's New 64-Bit ARM CPUhttp://seekingalpha.com/article/1699962-apples-new-64-bit-arm-a7-chip-is-absolutely-amazing IMO, the writing is on the wall. |
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