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Interesting, if damning, commentary from Google suggests that the Nexus 10 is an experiment in resuscitating a tablet market which is overcrowded with expensive and underpowered 10-inch tablets.
Speaking to the New York Times, Google’s director of business development for Android, John Lagerling, explained that the 10-inch tablet market is “overpriced and underpowered, and we wanted to see what we could do.”
Our initial impressions suggest it might not have quite managed to do a whole lot better than its competition in terms of power, with its dual-core 1.7GHz processor falling a little short over hardcore graphics work. It is, however, great value. Like most experiments, then, it may not have achieved the desired results first time round. [New York Times]
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Good luck to them I suppose. Considering the news, albeit not surprising, that most Companies are selling at a loss and Apple are charging almost twice as much as the material cost for the retail iPad mini price then should be; it will be good to see Google try to work its way through that.
I don’t really think it’s an issue that the nexus 10 can’t handle the most graphically intensive applications. They’re making an affordable tablet, with an awesome screen and decent specs. Between that and the Nexus 7, if they can increase the number of tablets available with android, they’ll stimulate an improvement in the offering of the tablet apps.
There’s no point in building a very powerful tablet if there’s only a handful of apps to use it.
“Our initial impressions suggest it might not have quite managed to do a whole lot better than its competition in terms of power, with its dual-core 1.7GHz processor falling a little short over hardcore graphics work.”
I think that’s a little harsh the processor is a dual core 1.7GHz cortex A15. I think that’s what people are missing here its an A15 not an A9. In fact i think im right in saying its the first and only A15 on the market from anybody. What does it mean well more operations per cycle and more cash than the previous generation. For example
a 1.7GHz dual core A9 vs a A15 your looking at around 50-60% faster and a 1.7GHz quad core A9 vs dual core A15 your looking at about 30% faster for the A15!! so faster single and multi thread processing (granted this comes with a big caveat that these are rough numbers and it depends what your type of application your running and so on)
and as for the graphics GPU yes its the same power as the previous generation but it now has API for OpenGL 3.0, OpenCL 1.1, DirectX 11 and Renderscript.
I think it might be slightly underpowered with graphics yes and this part of your assessment is fair but not because its any less powerful than the competition just that its running a huge display now and we still don’t know if what you saw was a final build and optimised kernal
Yeah, tired of hearing the ‘Quad > Dual’ argument without any consideration for the specifics.
What has a dual core CPU got to do with graphics ?
well they are SOCs (system on a chip) combinned CPU and GPUs on one chip actually its a dual core CPU with a quad core GPU. the GPU is a Mali-T604.
your Samsung glaxy S3 or their note both small and 10.1 tablet had Mali-400 which has same number of cores same cache size but not the new API mentioned.
however you may be interested to know that the same CPU GPU combo in the nexus10 is the one used in their chromebooks as well