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#1141
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
No.
An Atom uses about as much power as the whole tablet.
Indeed: maybe one day Intel and ARM will be comparable in terms of power consumption - after Intel sheds some of the older layers of skin and drops legacy stuff like PCI. Not that ARM is not going the other way, so they will probably meet as some point, in the middle.