Asus needs to “step up to the plate” a little more — $150 for a single core processor and a lower resolution screen — the new Novo 7 Venus from Ainol Electronics that launched last week wins hands down over Asus and the Venus is available now at a site in the U.S. called TabletSprint and compares most to the Nexus 7 tablet but for considerably less – matching key features, including a Quad Core processor, a high resolution multi-touch 1280×800 IPS screen, 16GB memory, a front camera, Android O/S and Google Play Store preinstalled — while also offering a number of features the Nexus 7 doesn’t – including a 2-megapixel rear camera, a MicroSD memory card slot, an HDMI 1080p port to download and watch movies directly from a tablet on to a large screen TV and also project & play video games on to a big screen; plus more ways to connect to the internet, including Ethernet as well as 3G/4G Wireless connection through its USB port with a 3G/4G USB adapter.

@ Dan terabek

You do realize that a single core atom found on these phones/tablet were benchmarked by anandtech to be nearly if not faster than dual core krait cpus(they are something like corex a15) the only let down is the gpu and even then its clocked quite high so its still competitive.

Venus has an atrocious GPU .

Some might but the vast majority of people never change the OS the system comes with, this is one of the reasons why desktop Linux users never got more than about 5% of the entire PC user base and why even among Android users a large percentage are still using older versions.

Basically, unless it’s automatic and/or provided by support for the device then most people don’t bother to go the extra step of doing it themselves.

Point is rather moot though because I don’t believe this Medfield can run full Windows. It’s specifically optimized for mobile devices and all devices released with it have only run Android.

This particular model is also the low end version of the series specifically intended for low cost devices.

The original Medfield, Z2460/80, is actually the mid-range offering and this new one is to help spread the range of offerings into the lower end of products and emerging markets.

Though that may change with the higher end dual core version, Z2580, coming out later that’ll also come with a much more powerful dual GPU GMA based on the SGX544. Essentially better than even the Clover Trail SoC, it should be the better candidate for running a range of OS.

Also, hopefully, by then they may have better driver support but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that as Imagination PowerVR GPU’s are pretty notorious when it comes to supporting Linux.

So right now, x86 optimized Android, WP8, W-RT, and W8/Pro are the only things you can be reasonably sure can run on this generation of ATOM processors.

While GNU/Linux only has generic driver support for now…