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Apple Insider says that the 64-bit A8X processor in the iPad Air 2 "smokes" new Android tablets.
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optimized software > over spec' hardware
that said, i quite enjoy using my xperia z ultra...
Are you suggesting we buy based on price/performance?Basically 11 cents per whatever the fuck the bench mark is at the bottom of that screenshot for iPad Air 2 vs 6 cents per again whatever the fuck on the Kindle Fire HDX 7.
I threw it in Excel and got the following
iPad Air 2 - 11 cents
iPad Air - 14.8 cents
Kindle Fire HDX 7 - 6.6 cents
Nvidia Shield Tab - 9.4 cents
Galaxy Tab S 10.5 - 14 cents
Nexus 7 - 10 cents
So.... Buy a Kindle Fire HDX 7?
Are you suggesting we buy based on price/performance?
For the average person, the Apple Eco system is much better than having any of those other devices. More apps (of better quality) and better integration with your iPhone, Mac and AppleTV. You can argue it all you want, but with Yosemite the Apple eco system has taken a huge step forward.
The ecosystem on Amazon and Play Store combined is actually pretty good (easy to get Play on the Kindle's). Not sure what you're bitching about. So yes. I'd based my decision on price/performance as most of this site do.Are you suggesting we buy based on price/performance?
For the average person, the Apple Eco system is much better than having any of those other devices. More apps (of better quality) and better integration with your iPhone, Mac and AppleTV. You can argue it all you want, but with Yosemite the Apple eco system has taken a huge step forward.
............................dear god i wouldnt be caught dead with that much icrap in my house
Im sorry but they are completely spinning this ina very interesting way. There is no way in hell that for a GAME that ipad air would smoke my nvidia tablet. They are full of shit. I dont do a whole lot of compressing video etc on my tablet either, so exactly how fast do I need this to be? I simply need the browser to be fast enough that I dont want to fling the device across the room.
Do you know how this is going to impact NVIDIA's Shield Tablet's market share? Oh wait, you can't divide by zero, never mind.
Apple's walled garden is the ultimate deal breaker.
Won't tablets with 64 bit cpus getting 64 bit builds of Android 5.0 lollipop make a big difference here?
that sounds downright revolutionary!after unlocking the bootloader on an old HTC Wildfire S, I put a slimmed down ICS Rom on it and turned it into a nice, lightweight MP3 player by adding a 32GB Micro SD card to it.
It really is. Just to make an iPhone as usable as a stock Android device, you have to jailbreak it. No sideloading, no alternative launchers or stores...
Even after Jailbreaking, you're still horribly limited in what you can do. I would argue the OS lock in makes the devices obsolete faster than Android devices that never get updated. At least when you unlock an Android device there's a plethora of roms you can put on them. case in point, after unlocking the bootloader on an old HTC Wildfire S, I put a slimmed down ICS Rom on it and turned it into a nice, lightweight MP3 player by adding a 32GB Micro SD card to it.
Still gotta use iTunes for that even on a jailbroken iPhone.
Well how many people honestly are "power users" when it comes to tablets?Are you suggesting we buy based on price/performance?
I'm with you...we need to see some actual tests not this kind of crapLets see the test between the iPad Air 2, and the Nexus 9!
Won't tablets with 64 bit cpus getting 64 bit builds of Android 5.0 lollipop make a big difference here?
if people pre-ordering the nexus 9 are expecting previous generation android hardware when it arrives in a couple weeks, no wonder the platform is so fragmentedConsidering they are comparing previous generation hardware of Android to a brand new piece of hardware this comparison means absolutely squat. How about using current hardware on both sides for an even comparison. The site is obviously on Apple's payroll
Not true. They are substantially faster at 64b integer arithmetic - this isn't a lot of applications, but it's an actual performance benefit.Uh, 64-bit processors aren't faster than 32-bit processors.
front page of which site? it's on the front (only) page of the linked article...but you have to have read the article to not "miss" itno one said the nexus 9 was previous hardware, it was excluded in the test on the front page of this site, thus it was missed.
Not true. They are substantially faster at 64b integer arithmetic - this isn't a lot of applications, but it's an actual performance benefit.
It's actual an important factor since Geekbench is heavily overweight on crypto benchmarks, of which 64-bit ARM has optimized instructions for SHA and AES.That benefit isn't at all reflected in desktop use of a computer and prolly won't show up in a tablet benchmark comparing Android devices to Apple devices.
It's actual an important factor since Geekbench is heavily overweight on crypto benchmarks, of which 64-bit ARM has optimized instructions for SHA and AES.