Replies to post #114048 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[DavidA2]

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

Anandtech... and everyone else that can possibly get there hands on. There's isn't a single professional review. You don't see Intel saying anything or the partners. There's absolutely nothing aside from Amazon user review on a single device.

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,

Who says Core Convertibles can't go under 13.3 inches? The Taichi is 11.6-inch, so is the Aspire S7. Also the upcoming Lenovo Helix detachable is a 10.6-inch.

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.

That can happen with Android, not Windows. And the tasks you have mentioned aren't the only things people do. Try running flash games or streaming videos other than Youtube. They are not hardware accelerated and needs better performance than Atom. FWIW, it seems slow on a 800MHz Ivy Bridge.

The real key is that there's no such thing as 7 inch Atom Tablets or a cheap one.

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.

Sure I guess than they should just give up new architecture and scale down Medfield for 22nm. Is that what you are suggesting? I assume current Atom isn't that good on perf/watt either, while Silvermont will improve on both absolute performance and performance/watt.

BTW, Windows 8 Tablets are still too expensive, and the NPD data(which says less than 1% of Windows 8 sales are Tablets) supports it too. It may be early to tell but at least one thing is clear. Availability is low not because its selling out but because its in very limited volumes.

Tablets are the new Netbooks, in that the under $250 category is basically taken up by them. If Intel wants Atom to have any impact there, it should be in a $299 Tablet at most, not something costing 2x. Of course that means we should have an
Android one, but unfortunately we're not seeing any.