According to the geekbanch result leaked, I really failed to see the point of W10A in the market right now. SD835 evens z7-8700 under x86 environment at best with similar TDP(~2W), the only good point provide by ARM SoC is the great integrity which means nothing to end user.
I don't think SD835 platform can have significant advantage even in battery life.
I also failed to see ARM-based mobile device can benefit end user because they won't be cheaper than current choice you have on the market. So even W10A is in a stable stage now which I highly doubt I will don't think it will be a better choice when you buying a laptop/pad like device.
Talk about native performance of SD835 doesn't means much as it only happens with native UWP and there's tons of x86 app and packaged x86-UWP which SD835 have to run under emulator. That's why MS give it W10S as default and when people update it to W10 pro the shortcoming will be explored.
Simple math, the lenove yogabook is somewhere 650g with 32Wh battery and 13~15 hours using time, putting another 12000mAh power bank(~60Wh) together is still under 1kg while HP envy x2 is sitting at 1.2kg - do you really think atom will fall behind in using time?
Thats not exeptional but good result.According to xFastest, ASUS NovaGo only gives less than 13 hours of YouTube video playback through WiFi with 75% screen brightness. The actual battery life seems not as good as promoted.
Interesting
Thats not exeptional but good result.
I watched their video little but can't understand single word can you tell us more about it?
Well it seems we are a little closer to finding out for ourselves as they have now announced the retailers who will sell them and the carriers that will offer the data packages. I guess we're not too far away from being able to buy one of these things.
If CISC Type (e.g. Intel) CPU is PATA cable, RISC Type (e.g. ARM) is SATA cable. RISC Type is the way to go, in term of energy save, performance and future development.
In front of the Intel's license on x64-x86 emulator, Microsoft should not release 32 bits (support only 3.x GB Ram), but 64 bits Windows ARM version, and then announce that she will discontinue the support for 32 bits version in coming years, just like what Apple & Google have done. As I know, Intel hold license of 32bits while AMD hold license of 64bits. This announcement may bring certain pressure on Intel oppositely! Also, since Intel still have 32bits production lines, this announcement may politely force Intel to make concession on the license conflict of emulator.
Not reallyIn summary a device with less than half the performance, smaller screen and about the same weight and thickness achieves much less battery duration than the HP envy X2!
Are serious or just trolling?
Not really
https://www.techspot.com/review/1599-windows-on-arm-performance/
With more reviews published, the real performance under the QCom hype is revealed.
The performance of SD835 platform is no match to N3450 under emulator and a justmatch with native apps. Z8700is about 90% of N3450 is terms of CPU performance. So what you claimed the lies than half performance is not true.
The battery life is not outstanding either. In different reviews the Asus Novato/HP X2 are sitting around 11-13 hours using time - looks like about 50% more than a proper atom platform with about 8 hours using time. When you consider the usual Atom platforms are rocking with ~30wAh battery while the SD835 platforms have ~50wAh battery I don't see how special that platform is in terms of power consumption. Not to mention the very poor comparability and stability with x86 apps.
Even the punch back from QCom against those reviews is soft like bum....
I think it's a wake up call for those blind believers?
We don't have choice either. Intel doesn't want to hurt their profit margins from core m and core i3 so they will never design quality atom chip.
Now it is upto Microsoft to improve x86 emulation and 64bt compatibility.