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From the article: "We've demonstrated this in our battery life tests already. Samsung's ATIV Smart PC uses an Atom Z2760 and features a 30Wh battery with an 11.
by Zenst 14y ago
From the article: "We've demonstrated this in our battery life tests already. Samsung's ATIV Smart PC uses an Atom Z2760 and features a 30Wh battery with an 11.6-inch 1366x768 display. Microsoft's Surface RT uses NVIDIA's Tegra 3 powered by a 31Wh battery with a 10.6-inch, 1366x768 display. In our 2013 wireless web browsing battery life test we showed Samsung with a 17% battery life advantage, despite the 3% smaller battery. Our video playback battery life test showed a smaller advantage of 3%." It is worth also noting that they are comparing this years intel with last years ARM. Also worth noting that it is also a smaller CPU process of around 25% in Intels favour.
Now nothing stopping Intel doing ARM chips down the line or indeed doing some hybrid chip. They have many cards they can play if they don't get the sales they want.
I would love the day when you could get a motherboard and the current Intel and ARM chips are pin compatable so you could drop what you like in, wouldn't that be a wonderful dream.
- dietrichepp 14y agoI think the trend is definitely away from user-replaceable CPUs. Some enthusiasts say it's "sad", but it's just part of a general trend towards integration on a larger scale. You can't replace a broken transistor on your Intel 4004 either.
- Dylan16807 14y agoIt's more a question of upgrades than trying to fix anything. CPUs are quite reliable. The only important things to replace when they break are power supplies, batteries, and storage drives.
- sliverstorm 14y agoI would love the day when you could get a motherboard and the current Intel and ARM chips are pin compatable so you could drop what you like in, wouldn't that be a wonderful dream. I'm already crossing my fingers that AMD will offer that, as they have announced they are developing an ARM chip and historically are friendlier about socket compatibility. Not really sure whether it's actually possible though. It also might not be quite as dreamy as you and I are imagining- are drivers CPU architecture dependent?
- Zenst 14y agoDrivers no, same with bios, but not as big an issue as it could be. I admit the AMD/ARM possibilities you mention are certainly very interesting prospects.