Intel Wins Simulated Moorestown vs. iPad Battle
Intel's Atom running Chrome in Windows XP beats the Apple iPad running Safari.
Earlier this week Intel launched a new generation of Atom system-on-chip processors that are aimed capturing a share of the mobile market. Current and previous Atom chips have done an amazing job at monopolizing netbook hardware, but now Intel wants to go after the devices such as cell phones and tablets – an area dominated by ARM.
Right now, the king of ARM processors for mobile devices appears to be Apple A4 chip, which is widely believed to be a Samsung Cortex A8 chip clocked up to 1GHz. Apple touts the iPad as being incredibly fast, and hands-on experience has shown that the device is incredible smooth with the iPhone OS. But a new simulated test shows that Intel is faster, even while running Windows XP.
UMPC Portal ran a browser test between an iPad and Viliv X70, which has its Menlow-based Atom platform running at 800MHz. While this isn't a test between Moorestown and the ARM-based A4, the practical architectures between Menlow and Moorestown should be quite similar.
In a webpage loading test, the 800MHz Atom Menlow running the latest Chrome on Windows XP matched the loading speeds of Safari on the iPad. When the Atom was cranked up to Menlow's 1.3GHz ceiling, the Windows XP tablet was able to load faster than the iPad – even with Flash enabled. The simulation leads us to believe that the Moorestown running at a 1.5GHz speed would be even faster.
Check out the video below for the test.
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I'm not sure what this proves other than, "Mines faster than yours!". Future tablets do not have to beat the speed of the iPad, they have to beat the integration and the 'shiny' factor added to all Apple devices.
Those two points and especially the last, are the REAL problems for oems.
P.s. I own an Asus R2h, Latitude XT2 and a heavily tweaked Archos 9. I love tablets and it hurts to see apple sell SO DAMN many tablets, a device that has pretty much been ignored by absolutely everyone over the years. Oh well
how long does the battery last and can I actually use it without it slipping out of my hand or screen glare?
how long does the battery last and can I actually use it without it slipping out of my hand or screen glare?
seconded, these obvious questions never seem to get answered!
Exactly... Plus what difference does it make? Surely A4 could be clocked slightly higher to achieve better results... Obviously it will melt knowing how stupid apple is with regards to thermal design of their products but hey - it's not A4's limitation...
Then again - it's nice to see that good old XP on 1.3GHz x86 CPU is still better than the iCrap.