Thread: Is it worth the wait for an a9 proccesor
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paulkoan is offline paulkoan
2010-09-08 , 12:17
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Originally Posted by egoshin View Post
The biggest performance advantage is not a new A9 vs A8 but memory speed and size. With modern software it is a critical to keep all stuff in memory vs moving it back and forward to slow (!) flash devices. At least this is a biggest drawback of N900 - it's 256MB can't keep all applications and Nokia forces an intensive swap with slow (19MByte/sec) eMMC.
For sure, only more memory demands more power to keep it refreshed. It is my understanding that this drives the decision for smaller amounts of memory more than physical size or component cost.

So as usual we are back to waiting for the next big thing in batteries. Which is next year apparently. And has been for the last two decades.
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