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Originally Posted by Johnx View Post
Uhm-, so you're comparing the power draw of a cpu alone to the power draw of a system-on-chip. The Intel Atom still needs a northbridge/southbridge to even be mostly as functional as an omap. And I'll bet that even the *cheapest* Intel Atom alone costs more than Nokia pays for an OMAP2420. BTW, be sure to do some research and get some benchmarks before you *assume* that the Atom will even be as fast as your average ARM processor, clock-for-clock. Also, I'd be interested to see where you got the power consumption figures for an omap2420.

-John

Hmmm. 1500 mAH * 3.7 V / 2.5W = 2.22 hours
SOC indeed; I think that's close to the power consumption of the whole tablet, since it's hard to get less than 2 hours battery life.

Last edited by Benson; 2008-04-03 at 16:00.