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Space Gopher
Jul 31, 2006

BLITHERING IDIOT AND HARDCORE DURIAN APOLOGIST. LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SHIT DON'T STINK EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW IT DOES BECAUSE I'M SUPER CULTURED.

Sri.Theo posted:

Same here, although as the pen requires a battery it seems to be some unique technology. It will be interesting to see how well it works along with palm detection.

Active digitizers always require some kind of power source. Wacom's desktop models get around the issue by sending power to the pen through the sensing grid, but it's cheaper, easier, and more efficient to just design a pen with a battery.

Ragingsheep posted:

How do the new Atoms compare to (my old) AMD Phenom II X4 965 in performance?

They're quite a bit slower - roughly comparable to laptop CPUs from the late Core 2 era. That's still quite fast by tablet standards, but keep in mind that you're comparing a low-end mobile CPU with a power budget of about two watts to a slightly aged midrange desktop CPU that could chew through as much as 125W.

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Space Gopher
Jul 31, 2006

BLITHERING IDIOT AND HARDCORE DURIAN APOLOGIST. LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SHIT DON'T STINK EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW IT DOES BECAUSE I'M SUPER CULTURED.

Zarfol posted:

Is the proposed core-m broadwell an atom/bay trail successor or a haswell successor?

I really want to grab a new laptop or tablet but am waiting it out.

In terms of architecture, it's a Haswell successor.

In terms of the product lineup, performance, etc, it's somewhere in the middle - capable of ultra-low-power fanless operation like Atom, but not quite on the same performance level as the desktop or big mobile chips because you have to make some sacrifices to hit that power budget.

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