I posted in the "Apple taking pre-orders for iPAD Air 2" thread that people suspected A8X to have more than Dual Cores and that A8X is going to stun the tech world and looks like this is becoming REAL!
Honestly, I didn't believe in the speculation myself. But being one of the many that are having an iPAD Air 2 shipping to me right at this moment, I am totally blown away and in 9th heavens!
Wow if you sort the list by multicore its the fastest arm based system they have tested, also it looks to be on the heels of some of Intel's laptop chips. Maybe in a year or 2 it will pass allot of these... Pretty damn impressive (esp given its clock speed)
They should of put a 7,000 x 8,000 pixel display in there too, it's a no buy for me!
Seriously though, as much as a feel excited about iPad Air 2, and I ll promptly get the 128gb one, I can't help but feel super excited about the 12.9 beast that's going to hit the market in a few months, there are some superb possibilities with it if someone puts their imagination to good use, and I am quite sure apple has a few tricks up their sleeve with iOS 9 and the iPad, enter IBM too, and the platform not only is going places, its firing on all cylinders. Special mention to the great daughter team at Filemaker, and the little known gems they've been up to, which I am sure will find some marvellous application on the new iPad and beyond.
I always feel that people who complaint about Safari tabs refreshing are trolling.
I have about 10 tabs open all the time and I don't have an issue of each tab refreshing whenever I want to read the websites.
Maybe because I constantly have fast WiFi and 4G?
I always thought the tabs should refresh only when I want to read them? Firstly, there are likely to be new contents.
Secondly, why should they be constantly or regularly refreshing when I am not reading them? Wouldn't this be using up battery?
Am I lazy? Maybe. But I see this as productivity because I don't have to tab to get to a certain website. And I didn't mind the tabs refreshing whenever I feel like reading them so I don't see what's the big fuss.
And all these times, my iPad Air and iphone only have 1 gb of RAM.
Wow if you sort the list by multicore its the fastest arm based system they have tested, also it looks to be on the heels of some of Intel's laptop chips. Maybe in a year or 2 it will pass allot of these... Pretty damn impressive (esp given its clock speed)
Apparently the Denver K1 scores 1900 single and 3250 multi running at 2.5GHz. So it has a 66% faster clock speed yet only manages to score 5.5% better than the A8 does.
Now when you look at all the yapping Nvidia (and their legion of fanboys - some on this site) have done about the larger cache sizes of the K1, the fact it's 7-way superscalar (vs 6-way for the A8) and how it's supposed to optimize instructions on the fly (ala Transmeta) to improve performance it suddenly doesn't seem very impressive. At all. On paper it has everything going for it, yet as with previous Tegra processors it fails to deliver in the real world.
Apple still has the best optimized ARM processor in the world. By a significant margin.
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Just got an email from Apple!
iPad is being delivered tomorrow! Oct 22!
Wooohoooo!
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This is just my opinion of course, but people who use too many tabs, and constantly have a gazillion tabs open are just lazy.
I know somebody like that, and I told them last time to just make some damn bookmarks, which they were apparently too lazy to do.
I agree. Having all those tabs is just messy. It's for procrastinators and generally unfocused individuals.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/1061742
There's a GeekBench result now http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/1061742.
I posted in the "Apple taking pre-orders for iPAD Air 2" thread that people suspected A8X to have more than Dual Cores and that A8X is going to stun the tech world and looks like this is becoming REAL!
Honestly, I didn't believe in the speculation myself. But being one of the many that are having an iPAD Air 2 shipping to me right at this moment, I am totally blown away and in 9th heavens!
Let me guess. Well-endowed unicorns?
It's what the iPad needed. I know iPad sales have been down because of iPhone performance being similar(and iPad having a weak camera).
Add in a better camera and it's about time Apple stepped up their iPads. There's no excuse for a device that large to be comparable to an iPhone.
The geekbench looks real nice!
That's a higher score than many Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs!
It looks like this iPad Air 2 will really be packing a punch!
Wow if you sort the list by multicore its the fastest arm based system they have tested, also it looks to be on the heels of some of Intel's laptop chips. Maybe in a year or 2 it will pass allot of these... Pretty damn impressive (esp given its clock speed)
They should of put a 7,000 x 8,000 pixel display in there too, it's a no buy for me!
Seriously though, as much as a feel excited about iPad Air 2, and I ll promptly get the 128gb one, I can't help but feel super excited about the 12.9 beast that's going to hit the market in a few months, there are some superb possibilities with it if someone puts their imagination to good use, and I am quite sure apple has a few tricks up their sleeve with iOS 9 and the iPad, enter IBM too, and the platform not only is going places, its firing on all cylinders. Special mention to the great daughter team at Filemaker, and the little known gems they've been up to, which I am sure will find some marvellous application on the new iPad and beyond.
I always feel that people who complaint about Safari tabs refreshing are trolling.
I have about 10 tabs open all the time and I don't have an issue of each tab refreshing whenever I want to read the websites.
Maybe because I constantly have fast WiFi and 4G?
I always thought the tabs should refresh only when I want to read them? Firstly, there are likely to be new contents.
Secondly, why should they be constantly or regularly refreshing when I am not reading them? Wouldn't this be using up battery?
Am I lazy? Maybe. But I see this as productivity because I don't have to tab to get to a certain website. And I didn't mind the tabs refreshing whenever I feel like reading them so I don't see what's the big fuss.
And all these times, my iPad Air and iphone only have 1 gb of RAM.
I love the 32X!
Also, dominate, Apple, dominate. Other tablets don't even matter now.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/user/naaajsboy
Wow if you sort the list by multicore its the fastest arm based system they have tested, also it looks to be on the heels of some of Intel's laptop chips. Maybe in a year or 2 it will pass allot of these... Pretty damn impressive (esp given its clock speed)
Apparently the Denver K1 scores 1900 single and 3250 multi running at 2.5GHz. So it has a 66% faster clock speed yet only manages to score 5.5% better than the A8 does.
Now when you look at all the yapping Nvidia (and their legion of fanboys - some on this site) have done about the larger cache sizes of the K1, the fact it's 7-way superscalar (vs 6-way for the A8) and how it's supposed to optimize instructions on the fly (ala Transmeta) to improve performance it suddenly doesn't seem very impressive. At all. On paper it has everything going for it, yet as with previous Tegra processors it fails to deliver in the real world.
Apple still has the best optimized ARM processor in the world. By a significant margin.
oh no 2GB of RAM? People were calling for 16GB of RAM.
Such a radical step backwards, my old iPad Air has 128 GB of RAM!
Steve Jobs wouldn't have permitted such a collapse.
Can't waaaait!
Funny nobody complains about it being soldered in! ????????????
Those benchmarks are approaching those of a Sandy Bridge i5 x86 CPU!!!
which is 4 year old architecture. But Intel needs to ship Broadwell to keep it's power/performance curve lead.
Figure 3 years (A11) before you see enough systems guts to legitimately say 'you could make a pretty darn good laptop out of this chip'
In multicore, that's higher than the 1.3GHz MBA from last year. The Haswell version.
which is 4 year old architecture. But Intel needs to ship Broadwell to keep it's power/performance curve lead.
Figure 3 years (A11) before you see enough systems guts to legitimately say 'you could make a pretty darn good laptop out of this chip'
I say 2 years.