Acer may be preparing to launch a new tablet running Google Android 4.1.2 and featuring an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Yeah, that sounds a lot like the recently released Acer Iconia Tab A110 — but according to test results from GLBenchmark, the Acer Iconia Tab A220 has a higher resolution display. I suspect it […]
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Benchmarking the $249 Samsung Chromebook
Samsung’s new $249 Chromebook features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and Chrome OS operating system. That also describes the $449 Samsung Chromebook 550 that came out earlier this year. What makes the new model different is that it’s thinner, lighter, gets slightly longer battery life, costs less, and oh yeah… it has […]
New HTC tablets on the way with Tegra 3, 1080p displays?
HTC may be preparing to launch two or more new tablets. Earlier this week an HTC official told PC Advisor that it would launch a follow-up to last year’s HTC Flyer. Now benchmark results have appeared online for at least two different devices. The first is called the HTC Vertex, and it has a 1.3 GHz […]
AMD Brazos 2.0 benchmarks
AMD recently introduced its Brazos 2.0 platform, offering a couple of new notebook processors that offer moderate performance, low power consumption, and a low price tag. Â HP recently loaned me a Pavilion dm1 notebook featuring one of the new processors — and while I’ll have a full review, I wanted to share some initial benchmark […]
Mysterious Pegatron E-Tab 4G shows up in benchmark results
Pegatron is a Taiwanese device manufacturer that builds products for other companies, much the way Foxconn or Wistron does. So when benchmark results for an unannounced Android device called the Pegatron E-Tab 4G show up online, you can be pretty sure that’s not the name this tablet will be sold under. But it certainly looks […]
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 may have Exynos quad core processor
When Samsung unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet in February the company said it would have a 1.4 GHz dual core processor. But that was then. Now it looks like the company may be giving the 10 inch tablet a bit of a spec bump before launch. Nordic Hardware spotted some benchmark results that […]
Sony’s next tablet could feature a quad-core chip
The two Sony tablets available today ship with NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processors. But it looks like Sony’s next tablet could have a Tegra 3 quad-core chip. The folks at Japanese site Ameblo spotted some online benchmark test results for an unannounced Sony device called the Sony V150. The tablet appears to have a 1.4 […]
Are iPad’s A5x graphics really 4x faster than NVIDIA Tegra 3?
When Apple unveiled its the third generation iPad earlier this month, the company made the bold claim that the new tablet’s new Apple A5x processor offers 4 times the graphics performance available from NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor, which is one of the fastest chips available for Android phones and tablets. NVIDIA expressed some skepticism at […]
New iPad has twice the RAM, same clock speed
The latest iPad is expected to go on sale in stores on March 16th, but it looks like some folks in Vietnam have gotten an early look. Tinhte.vn forum member Sonlazio posted an unboxing video and some early benchmarks. While there aren’t a lot of surprises, the benchmarks do show that Apple has doubled the […]
Fastest ARM chips are comparable to Intel’s slowest Atom chips
Over the past few years ARM-based processors have been getting more and more powerful, while chip makers have been working to make x86 chips more power efficient. So it should come as no surprise that we’ll soon see smartphones and tablets with Intel chips. But we may also see laptop and desktop computers with ARM […]