Articles about slow performance

We all know the story with the Motorola Xoom, which didn't get Adobe Flash support at launch a few weeks ago, somehow nullifying the biggest advantage of Android tablets over the iPad. We've reported at that time that Adobe is working on bringing Flash support to Honeycomb as soon as possible and apparently it did just that, as of today you can update/install Adobe Flash 10.2 on your Android devices.Currently only versions 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0.1+ are supported, with the first two benefiting fr...

It's sad when a manufacturer presents its products and fails to deliver them in 6 months time. It happened to MSI with its WindPad tablets, presented at Computex in 2010, so it's even worse when they get the press at an event in Taipei and showcase the same products that still feel like prototypes. Reports about the Windows 7 Tablet, the WindPad 100W are not something to be proud off, as the tablet is reported as being extremely sluggish, 'thanks' to the old Intel Atom Z530 CPU at 1.6 GHz. Maybe...

If I was to resume all the problems with Windows 7  tablets that would be performance. I'm not talking about expensive devices like Lenovo X201t, but of slate tablets, that can be bought for under 1000$, some for even lower amounts. Performance is the thing that makes Windows 7 tablets based on Atom CPUs generally to fall way behind in responsiveness compared to the iPad or Android tablets. There's not much you can do about that, you might think, plus couple that with the user interface not rea...

We've reviewed the Archos 9 Tablet running Windows 7 Started edition a few weeks ago and the general conclusion was that the 1.1 GHz Atom CPU was not powerful enough to get a smooth user interaction. It seems that Archos took this thought into consideration as it just recently bumped the CPU found inside the Archos 9 to 1.2 GHz via the Atom Z515 chip.Now, don't expect major changes, as the overall speed increase is under 10%, but expect it to run a little smooth, and if you turn down some of...

Everyone can make a tablet these days, no doubt about it. The recipe is simple: take a netbook, attach a touch layer to the screen, that's also attached to the main body and there you have it. It seems simple, but the end result is not always what users expect: a seamless experience, mainly because of two reasons, the lack of proper software and slow hardware. That's the case with the latest addition to slate type tablets Pack: iiView Vpad.iiView Vpad is nothing more than a netbook tablet ru...

The Archos 9 tablet, which we've presented a few times here at All Touch Tablet.com is one of the great examples on how you can ruin a perfectly good idea with bad engineering. So, let's see the basic idea and dissect it: build a slim slate type tablet, running a fully fledged Operating System that can run a few hours with WiFi on. All simple at this point. Let's now see what went wrong.First to build a slim device you need a small battery, so you need a low power CPU which is always slow, n...