Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2008-08-04 , 18:11
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Originally Posted by bobloadmire View Post
you're not a big fan of speed?

Its not like the atom would kill the battery life. 0.65 watts? Other tablets have it.
and x86 would rock, you could put vista or OS X on there if you wanted.

although probably wouldn't want to.
No no.. I'm saying that I knew that's what you had intended. ("I called it!" as in betting, where you guessed the outcome correctly.)

Although, I agree with your sentiment for speed, and I wouldn't MIND an Atom processor, I'm ambivalent on what TYPE of processor is in there. I'm more concerned right now with just bumping up the speed until it's at a sweet spot of being JUST fast enough to do what I need. Laptops and desktop PC's passed that point for me years ago and the N800 is pretty good.. but it just needs a slight kick up in speed and cache on the processor. The fact that it's an ARM helps because it's a very power efficient RISC processor and performs very fast despite what the MHz label tells you.

Personally, I think I'd rather continue to use ARM processors but I hurt for speed enough to be open to a change if it's necessary.

As for OS X and Vista.. no. I don't want that. Not at all. Oh God, no.