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cast-fish:
i checked sbout this chip and the GPU

unless VIA make huge misstakes in their conference presentations to thousands of people
in the industry...then this chip does indeed contain a dual core mali 400 gpu

it's a nice chip really...they run at 1.5 ghz cpu cores....which is a lot faster than other brands
of chip

V

cast-fish:
Hello

sorry sometimes my post is long.

Next week the new Samsung chromebook comes out. It is an 8 core cpu with a special graphics
gpu which is likely as fast as a mali quad gpu also. 

Lovely ultrabook with a price at just 250 to 299 us $.   It is customized whereby all 8 cores can
be selected to work at the same time on any type of computing tasks. (or you can select the mode of 4 hard workers for heavy tasks...while 4 lightweight workers over-ride the heavy's for certain lighter weight tasks) constantly switching back and forth.  (Heavy quad....Light quad) per performance needed

That is the understanding.

Initially the chip had only been quad A or quad B. It was not capable of Octa core processing all at the same time. But some update to the technology has allowed for true octa cpu processing.

Vince.

funtikar:

--- Quote from: curaga on December 16, 2013, 04:45:26 AM ---
--- Quote ---The 1gb of ram is enough you know.  When you have a multi core cpu driving away in the
background with android. 
--- End quote ---

Android? I would of course ditch Android as the first step and install a real Linux. 2GB of RAM is supported according to the chip specs, so it would just need to be installed by the OEM.

--- End quote ---
this, I used to be very much like cast-fish until I actually used android as a desktop pc. Sure all the alt-tabbing,copy-pasting,multitasking are there but its really poorly integrated for a mouse and keyboard setup, its hit or miss most of the time. I love android on touchscreen obviously.

cast-fish:
i never head that. Just the oppossite really..... 90 percent of Android Desktop users report its
a better experience than a Msoft machine at fractions of the cost. That's even without those people running Android in "multi windowed" support too. Also the hitching into large HD screens is a cool android feature (not all Msoft ultrabooks can do this)

The thing to also note is that Linux can be installed onto just about any android device in 2 clicks
using the "CHROOT" method and free store tools like  "Complete linux installer" just as long as your
android kernel supports "Looped devices". 

So it's very easy to get cheap powerful Android devices running a Linux right alongside the currently running Android....which is, infact, very useful.

Those laptops are 18 times cheaper than a Mac book Air in the UK.  (i try to remember that)


V

funtikar:
I'm using a 9inch rebranded MID WM8880 tablet as my current desktop, the speed is decent once you oc it to above 1ghz, but in terms of performance it still lags in stuff like browsing but only if open many tabs ,not surprising since this thing only has 512mb ram, 1gb ram would have made a big difference. I was able to get swap, but there was either no effect or its too slow, in antutu benchmark, the storage i/o scores mostly half compared to other mainstream tablet brand, it doesn't  support fstrim too. Its NAND storage is basically a big bottleneck.  :'(

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