[citation][nom]glenricky[/nom]But then Intel would have released their dual core Z2580 or the 22nm Silvermont. For myself, I would go for a phone that can run windows and all application my laptop has[/citation]
[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Are you two seriously saying you wouldn't buy it strictly because of the brand name of the CPU? Medfield beats the dual core ARM chips despite having only one Hyper-Threaded core. It is obviously just as good as the ARMs are. Intel will need to improve it significantly when the Cortex A15s come out, but it is an excellent competitor for dual core A9s.[/citation]
I've run Ubuntu 11.04 on a panda board running dual core 1gig arms with 1gig ram against 1.5gig dual core + hyper threading Atom (previous gen 330 + NVidia Ion) with 4gig ram, and the Arm system 'feels' far more responsive! My very unscientific test suggests Intel have a LOT of ground to make up. P.s. The Atom system was installed on a SSD and the arm system on an 8gig sd card so the Atom had more hd bandwidth to play with, I was surprised it did not do better. Both played 1080p HD fine (but that is no test of the cpu)