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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Nah, the OMAP3440 is 800MHz, while the OMAP3430 is 600MHz (I just redid the OMAP wiki page, which has some details). Basically, this thing is going to be a power hog like no other. The consumption jump between the OMAP3430 and the OMAP3440 is . . . non-trivial (I had some numbers at some point, but I can't seem to dredge the up).
I'd like to see those numbers just out of curiousity (I'm not disagreeing with you or anything). I'd imagine that these stats are probably really going to be true for processor intensive users, but with my understanding of ARM processors, it seems a bit counterintuitive. From the sounds of this, it would seem that the 3440 was only an overclocked 3430, with no other different components?
Edit: I guess, that considering the current state of using software that is *mostly unoptimized for ARM, the time to downclocking might be more of a factor and could make the issue with battery drain a bit of a problem.


Also, I don't remember who was commenting on it but: I wouldn't be particularly concerned about using either the next NIT or the next Archos with "HD" since that would be primarily handled by a seperate processor, and if properly implemented with software and drivers this wouldn't bog down the main processor.

Last edited by neatojones; 2009-02-10 at 06:24.