wbmw, RE: Do you have any experience comparing your Crusoe based tablet with a Pentium III based tablet? I was under the impression that compiling Java would take at least twice as long on a Crusoe based system, based on benchmarks I've seen in the past. Then again, maybe that's an acceptable speed, given what you're building. Not much of a difference between 4 seconds and 8 seconds, is there?
Yes. One of our engineers uses a Toshiba Portégé 3505 but my Java project is not loaded on that device so I can’t give you any benchmarks for the Pentium III. All I can offer you is that my TC1000 hard boots to a windows login dialog in 45 seconds fully hibernates in 15 seconds and returns from hibernation to login dialog in 20 seconds – login from hibernation is instant. As far as Java goes using Borland’s JBuilder compiler loaded on my TC1000 I can build an entire project of about 450 class files in 85 seconds the first time; 45 seconds any subsequent times. The Toshiba tablet would of course build the project much faster all the time but how often does an engineer perform a full build vs. a make, which only compiles the deltas and any dependancies.
The Toshiba is essentially a notebook computer equipped with a Wacom Digitizer so that it can be labeled a Tablet PC and it always weighs 4.1 pounds. The TC1000 weighs 3.0 pounds without the keyboard and all of the guts are located in the slate. In my opinion the TC1000 biggest shortcoming isn’t the processor speed it is the fact that it lacks pressure sensitivity, but as an engineer I could care less about that feature and prefer the tempered glass instead.
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