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According to a review at ars technica, the latest Phenom II X4 940 (3GHz) draws 218.9W. I understand that the tablets can't do everything that the Phenom II does. I'm more focused on all the things that it can do. Browsing web pages, voice over ip, video over ip, instant messaging are all things that people do on their desktops. And I'm really not even trying to say that the Cortex A8 or A9 is the best at power consumption in it's class, just that the amount of processing power that will fit in my pocket will be astounding very shortly.

Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
There is a bogus comparison indeed. No recent Intel or AMD CPU has a TDP of 200W. The embedded Intel and AMD CPUs use under 100W. And this is only the CPU, not the entire architecture. TDP has different meaning at AMD and Intel, and idle W of AMD is much better than Intel. These Intel and AMD CPUs are meant for desktop, workstation and servers. They provide much more power than your OMAP2. You can underclock them, and use technologies like SpeedStep to save power.

If you want to compare you compare with stuff inside laptops such as AMD Turion, Intel Core 2 Duo or stuff inside netbooks Intel Celeron, Intel Atom or stuff inside embedded computers AMD Geode, VIA Nano, NVidia Tegra (uses ARM11), or other low-end ARM, POWER and MIPS, or other embedded SoC.
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