Articles about high performance

If you want to get a cheap Android tablet these days and you don't want to pay for a no-name model then Archos is your only option. They've established themselves as cheap tablet manufacturers, with a clear orientation towards media playback, whether you talk about video, audio playback or photo viewing.The French company has some interesting plans for 2011 that are worth mentioning, plans that concern the Gen 9 tablet series, slated for June release. First, the cheap part of their brandin...

We've been talking about the iPad 2 a lot here at All Touch Tablet.com, but we haven't scratched the issue of performance, and boy, there's a lot to say about Apple's latest gadget. Apparently the 2x CPU performance and 9x graphics capabilities over the previous generation mentioned by Steve Jobs are not too far from reality, which makes competing products like the Xoom for example not only more expensive, but significantly slower in daily tasks, even if they are powered by the all mighty Tegra...

You must agree that one of the best Android tablets announced this year is the Motorola Xoom, a 10 inch tablet with the fast dual core Tegra 2 CPU that allows it to play HD videos without breaking a sweat. Now that it went up for sale at BestBuy (in store only), and tomorrow on Verizon's website for 600$ with 2-year contract/800$ without one, it's time to take a look at what reviews are saying about it, as quite a few surfaced today. One of the first things you're going to notice about the Xoom ...

I've always complained that the Atom CPU is only good for low power consumption. You can't actually do any work on it because it's too slow. Now Intel seems to really take this problem into consideration with the Atom N550, the first dual core Atom specially designed for tablets and netbooks. The first benchmarks show the new CPU almost doubles the performance of the N450 Pinetrail model in ZIP archiving benchmark. That's because of the two physical cores and the two virtual ones provided by Hyp...

I don't know you, but personally when I hear manufacturers bragging about how their products are supposed to fare against the competition and how their chipsets will trash the ones they're fighting with I tend to be skeptical about it. So did Steve Paine at UMPC Portal, who put to the test the iPad against the downclocked Viliv V70 MID who uses the Menlow platform, a very similar one to the recently announced Moorestown Atom Z6xx. The Menlow was down-clocked to 800 Mhz for a megahertz to megaher...

Atom CPUs were almost always associated with low cost, low power consumption and low performance. Casual users like the first two and don't care too much about the latter, but heavy users like me always felt that the Atom CPU is not a viable alternative if you want things done. Intel is trying hard to fix this now as it just announced the Atom Z6xx series, which is meant for smartphones, MIDs, netbooks and touch tablets. The new family improves on performance while keeping a low power envelope. ...

Are you in search of a fast tablet PC that will run all the programs you use on your deskop? You want it now? Take a look then at the Fujitsu T4410 tablet PC, a serious tablet powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The other spec you're interested in is the 12.1 inch screen with multitouch and digitizer option that allows you to control the tablet with your fingers or the included stylus.The Core 2 Duo CPU is not the fastest around since Intel launched the Core i5 and i7 mobile CPUs, but it doe...

VIA was traditionally the chipset maker to choose for a low power, price and sadly performance system. Now they're trying to wash this blemish on their brand name by releasing the VX900 chipset, a competitor for the ATOM platform, meant for netbooks and nettops but with higher performance when it comes to Full HD playback (just like the Tegra 2). To demo their statement VIA allowed a blogger from Netbooknews to test their prototype platform against a HP Mini 10 with a Broadcom chip that barely m...

I'm glad to see that Fujitsu's laptop division is not dead, as they just announced the Lifebook T900 convertible tablet. Unfortunately this is the best example of why tablet PCs didn't had a chance a few years ago: it's huge, heavy and expensive. It's also powerful, especially considering the 13.3 inch footprint, but the 1.5 inch thickness and 4.78 lbs weight might get me off buying it, if the 1889$ starting price didn't do that in the first place.If you can get past those problems you'll ge...