Microsoft has discounted the 128GB Surface 3 once again by $150 at the Microsoft Store, bringing its price down to $449 for the WiFi variant and $549 for the LTE version of the tablet. In case you can’t recall, Microsoft offered a similar discount on the 128GB model last month as well, but it was for a limited time. The basic 64GB Surface 3 is down by $100 so you can grab the WiFi and LTE version for $399 and $499, respectively.
SolidRun offers a line of tiny, low-power computers and development boards including the CuBox and HummingBoard. Up until now, most of the companys products have featured ARM-based chips from Freescale and Marvell. But now SolidRun has unveiled its first products to feature an Intel processor.
The SolidRun Braswell SOM is a basically a little computer with an Intel chip on a 2.1″ x 1.6″ board. If you want to use full-sized USB, HDMi, and Ethernet ports, youll probably want to attach it to the SolidPC Q4 Carrier board though. Neither product is available for purchase yet, but both are listed as coming soon.
The SOM (system-on-a-module) will be available with a choice of an Intel Atom E8000 or Pentium N3710 processor. Each will be available with between 1GB and 8GB of RAM and between 4GB and 128GB of eMMC storage...
Lenovo hasnt officially announced the Yoga Book yet, but it showed up at the Red Dot design awards web site recently and its likely that this is the same 10 inch Android-powered device that we first learned about through a series of leaks in March.
If the Yoga Book is the same device as the one we saw in March, itll likely have a 10 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, an Intel Atom x5-Z8500 Cherry Trail processor, support for up to 4GB of RAM and up to 32GB of storage.
Its expected to run Android and seems to feature WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and optional cellular functionality.
As expected, Acers latest Chrome OS laptop is a 14 inch model with an Intel Celeron Braswell processor. But while I had figured that the Acer Chromebook 14 would be an entry-level device, it turns out that this is more of a mid-range Chromebook with a few special features.
Acer will offer a model with 4GB of RAM, 32GB of eMMC storage, an Intel Celeron N3060 dual-core CPU, and a full HD display in April for $300. An entry-level model with 2GB of RAM, 16GB or of storage, and a 1366 x 768 pixel screen is also available. And Acer plans to offer models with quad-core Celeron N3160 processors as well.
Both models feature IPS displays for wide viewing angles, up to 14 hours of battery life (for the HD model, or 12 hours for the full HD version), and two USB 3.1 ports. The Chromebook 14 is also Acers first Chromebook to feature an all-metal (aluminum) chassis.
Is Intel subsidizing these things? I don't even see any AMD products in this price range.
The 11" Acer Apire 1 from Amazon has only 16GB in its SSD, which is not big enough for apps. Comes only 1-1/2 year after the Stream 11. We'll see what's available after Christmas next year.
And more power consumption, but longer battery life despite the same battery size. I wonder how they measure power consumption... Or if the longer battery life is only due to software.NotebookCheck: Dell Venue 10 Pro (5056) Tablet Review
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CPU performance is up by 20-30%, iGPU more than twice as fast and improved battery life compared to the older Atom Z3735F based model (5055).
Microsoft discounts 128GB Surface 3 by $150
Makes sense given iPad Air 2's recent price cut. If the roadmaps are correct, still a long way till Broxton and 'Surface 4'.
NotebookCheck: Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro 10 Tablet Review
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NotebookCheck: Xiaomi MiPad 2 Tablet Review
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Both obtained a rather impressive 86% score, not bad at all for Atom devices. Xiaomi MiPad 2 in particular offers a lot for the price, probably the best x86 Windows iPad mini clone.
Definately, only that they won't admit until it flops hard...Is Intel subsidizing these things? I don't even see any AMD products in this price range.
Talking about cheap:
2016 Newest Acer Aspire One 11.6 inch Cloudbook (Intel Celeron N3050, 2GB memory, 16GB eMMC) - $138
http://www.amazon.com/Aspire-Cloudbook-Celeron-Bluetooth-Windows/dp/B019MJ3L78/ref=zg_bs_565108_39
I would call anyone that told me we would see x86 Windows notebooks for this price insane a couple of years ago.
Still waiting for Apollo Lake... this generation is beyond lackluster...
Going by past performance, there is nothing to wait for. More performance regression, more contra revenue.
Rats leave the sinking ship: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2468998
Agreed, Apollo Lake is dreadfully late, should have been out in late 2015/early 2016. It probably won't be anything to write home about. Fortunately for Intel, for whatever it's worth, they have no credible competition in the super cheap X86 processor market since AMD killed the "Cat" line of cores.
Going by past performance, there is nothing to wait for. More performance regression, more contra revenue.
Rats leave the sinking ship: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2468998
Going by past performance...
Rats leave the sinking ship: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2468998
Agreed, Apollo Lake is dreadfully late, should have been out in late 2015/early 2016. It probably won't be anything to write home about. Fortunately for Intel, for whatever it's worth, they have no credible competition in the super cheap X86 processor market since AMD killed the "Cat" line of cores.
Windows 10 is OK on a 16 GiB eMMC if you're aggressive about storing everything you can on an SD card. The updates actually don't overwhelm it, because major updates effectively reinstall Windows, so winsxs never bloats too much.
8.1 is where you get problems, because WIMBoot causes winsxs bloat to be about twice as bad as it would be without WIMBoot.
However that ST is beyond better than any Atom Intel has.That's what Stoney Ridge is meant to be- super cheap x86 SoC, but with vaguely acceptable single threaded performance. (Whether it is successful with that goal remains to be seen of course.)
However that ST is beyond better than any Atom Intel has.