Oh, it is very much the case. We're talking about, at the very least, dedicated machines with a half gig of memory and hardware whose sole purpose is to run gra

Oh, it is very much the case. We're talking about, at the very least, dedicated machines with a half gig of memory and hardware whose sole purpose is to run graphics and such without any extra OS layer (for the most part), vs a machine which is meant to have an entire OS running behind the scenes. But even beyond that, the raw speed of the consoles is unlikely to be matched by one of these tiny integrated ARM devices for quite a while. The raw CPU speed may get there, though it absolutely isn't right now. But the graphics chips? Not a chance. On top of the fact that the integrated chips are flat out slower, they are also lacking a huge amount of features compared to dedicated chips. You need look no further than Open GL ES for iPad to see the major differences. I don't have raw numbers but if someone were to provide them, you'd see a magnitude of power disparity.