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Originally Posted by
Enigmoid
At that clockspeed the only thing you are looking at is x86 compatability.
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Now take that score, divide it by two (dual core) and reduce it by 1/3 (1 ghz vs 1.5 ghz).
GPU will still be pretty good.
This is kind of a weird comment in reference to an AMD CPU but, those back of the envelope calculations show that while the total throughput will be lower, single-thread performance will be around 12% higher.
As long as battery life is still good, better single-thread performance plus x86 compatibility seems like a win to me. That being said, I still would think very long and hard about getting a Jaguar-based tablet because it does not support connected standby. I read somewhere that Jaguar's successor should have it, so I'd expect AMD to really come into its own in the tablet market then.
My personal plan is to get something
like this and whatever the best Baytrail dockable tablet is with wacom digitizer.
I'm still holding out for AMD to put out an HSA-capable x86/ARM APU SoC. Imagine running Windows and Android side-by-side. Total app compatibility. We can dream...