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Re: DavidA2 post# 114022

Monday, 11/26/2012 11:44:57 AM

Monday, November 26, 2012 11:44:57 AM

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And why even big review sites can't get hold of them apart from single twitter post?


What's your point? That if Anandtech doesn't review it, it doesn't exist...?

Maybe Anand is giving Windows 8 tablets a deep level review, which sometimes takes weeks. We saw the Windows RT review, but not a single Windows 8 review at this point. But I don't hear anyone claiming that Windows 8 does not exist, or will not sell in the market. Anand also took several weeks to write an iPhone 5 review, and we've still not seen his deep dive review on iPad4. So according to your logic, those must not be selling either!

NEC's LaVie Z weighs 875g on a 13.3 inch form factor while being 15mm thick. Acer Aspire S7 is 12mm thick with 1kg weight on a 11.6 inch one.


In response to the argument, which is that convertible Ultrabooks cannot satisfy the world's demand for tablets, these examples cannot debate it. While *some* people will be happy to have a 13.3" display for all their productivity and consumption tasks, others clearly will not opt for something that large for consumption. *Some* people will use their phones for consumption tasks, while others will buy a 7-10" tablet. If Intel wants to capture that sale, they have to use Atom.

If that argument was true, Core 2 would have started the decline.


Wrong again! Core 2 only went into laptops, which do care about performance. That's why Intel could sell consumers on behalf of performance when it came to buying Core 2 products - and they continue to do so today. Tablet usages (especially the mini-tablets) don't care about performance. I don't need more performance to watch a video, or read an eBook, or check email. If that's all that someone wants out of a tablet, then they will get the 7" variety in addition to their laptop. That's still a sale that Intel can capture - but only with Atom.

What Silvermont offers is lifting the stima of Atom amongst consumers


Clover Trail is *already* doing that. While Pine Trail and Cedar Trail were demonstrably sluggish in their netbook designs, Clover Trail tablets are being hailed as responsive and fluid. Silvermont doesn't add anything other than higher bars on synthetic benchmarks. If people want to do high intensity tasks, they aren't going to use their mini tablets to do them. They will use their PCs or convertible Ultrabooks, which have even more performance. Silvermont may win the minds and hearts of enthusiasts who drool over review measurements, but the average consumer will ask which of their apps - email or eBooks - will benefit from the additional performance, and you will sit there and point to SunSpider or BrowserMark, and only get blank stares in return.
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