What is the Intel Atom Z3735G not good for?

[Compman55]

Bought an ultra cheap tablet for my mother, and was wondering (other than games) what this CPU would not do very well?

It looks to be a 32bit, so will most things that run on a regualr 32bit laptop work well on this?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Its a 64bit CPU. If the OS also is, that's another matter.
http://ark.intel.com/products/80275/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z3735G-2M-Cache-up-to-1_83-GHz?q=Z3735G

Its for light web browsing and checking emails basically. Else its slow, very slow.

 

[dark zero]

Ok.... Imagine having a Pentium D at 3.2 Ghz on a 5 watt envelope. That is the Atom.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Well, I had, until the bleeping mini-usb charger broke, one of the Winbook cheap atom tablets. It was a huge improvement over an old Acer android tablet I had, but as Shintai said, it is pretty slow. Mine only had 1gb of ram, and I actually think that was more limiting than the cpu. It was fine for web browsing, which is all I really used it for. It could handle youtube, netflix, Nook, and the like, maybe some light office tasks if one was inclined to punish himself trying to do that on a tablet. I am sure it will throttle if you try to do any intensive work on it.

Just for kicks, I installed Galactic Battlegrounds (same engine as AOE), and it would play that. But again, it was painful on a 7" tablet.

 

[jhu]

Rendering, video editing, heavy image manipulation, 3D modelling, Oracle DB, DB2, etc. CPU is slow, but it's also limited to a max of 1 GB of RAM.

 

[dark zero]

BTW, forget even intermediate things like coding or some old gaming... At best it can run Sega Saturn.

 

[happy medium]

Well, I had, until the bleeping mini-usb charger broke, one of the Winbook cheap atom tablets. It was a huge improvement over an old Acer android tablet I had, but as Shintai said, it is pretty slow. Mine only had 1gb of ram, and I actually think that was more limiting than the cpu. It was fine for web browsing, which is all I really used it for. It could handle youtube, netflix, Nook, and the like, maybe some light office tasks if one was inclined to punish himself trying to do that on a tablet. I am sure it will throttle if you try to do any intensive work on it.

Just for kicks, I installed Galactic Battlegrounds (same engine as AOE), and it would play that. But again, it was painful on a 7" tablet.

I have a 8 inch winbook Atom Baytrail-T Z3735D 1.33GHz quad core with 2gb of ram, and a 64 gb card in it. I bought a blue tooth keyboard for it and a Microsoft Arc Bluetooth mouse. Does all the basics fairly quick for me. Youtube ,Netflix ,movies, web browsing all work great.
Love the full size usb 3.0 too. Used the hdmi output to play movies on a big screen TV at my parents house. I think I paid 139$ for it last year. Its running windows 10 now.

Yea, this is the one , only 109$ now.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/437499/TW801_Tablet_-_Black

 

[frozentundra123456]

I had the 7" model, which only had 1gb of ram, and the storage was constantly being filled up to until I turned off automatic updates. But yea, it was OK for basic stuff like you mention.

Unfortunately, the mini usb charger no longer works, so I cant use it. From looking at the net, seems like there were a lot of problems with that. Think I only paid 70 bucks for it, so I got my money's worth, but it is frustrating to not be able to charge it.

 

[myocardia]

It will do e-mail, shopping, and playback video quite well, up to 1080P. It only does it well because it has hardware video decoding, but nevertheless, they do video quite well.

 

[therealnickdanger]

I have a 8 inch winbook Atom Baytrail-T Z3735D 1.33GHz quad core with 2gb of ram, and a 64 gb card in it. I bought a blue tooth keyboard for it and a Microsoft Arc Bluetooth mouse. Does all the basics fairly quick for me. Youtube ,Netflix ,movies, web browsing all work great.
Love the full size usb 3.0 too. Used the hdmi output to play movies on a big screen TV at my parents house. I think I paid 139$ for it last year. Its running windows 10 now.

Yea, this is the one , only 109$ now.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/437499/TW801_Tablet_-_Black

I bought the 10" model open box for $150 over a year ago and it's been great.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/437498/TW100_101_Tablet_-_Black?ob=1

If I had to sum it up - it's great for doing everything that does NOT require a mouse and keyboard. It's been great for social media interactions, viewing photos, 720p YouTube (1080p content and 60fps content drop frames often), 1080p Netflix (via app), cheezburger network, Vines, reading comics on Marvel Unlimited (the reason I bought the 10" model) or reading just about anything else.

By the time you add the cost of the cover/stand, SD card, and mouse and keyboard, you will have spent as much or more than a budget laptop and you will have much less performance and fewer features in addition to have a bunch of random crap sitting around that you have to keep track of and move around. As long as you use it for its intended purpose, it should please you.

 

[Face2Face]

I have a similar SoC in my Intel Compute stick (Z3735F). It does well in day to day tasks, and some light gaming - Castle Crashers, Awesomenaughts, Nidhogg, and even Left 4 Dead 2 are playable at 720p; even some at 1080p. I primarily use mine for STEAM In-home streaming and it does a great job, providing your not using wireless. I'd imagine with only 1GB of memory some of the games above wouldn't be playable, but I really wouldn't know without testing it.

 

[happy medium]

By the time you add the cost of the cover/stand, SD card, and mouse and keyboard

True, but the keyboard and mouse you can use with other setups also. and the keyboard comes in a folder type case and has a pocket to store the Arc mouse. Kinda like a all in one unit.

 

[Concillian]

Mine only had 1gb of ram, and I actually think that was more limiting than the cpu.

This is what so many people do not realize about the cheap tablets. 1 GB RAM severely limits what can be done on a tablet. A tablet with 1 GB RAM is basically relegated to LIGHT web browsing, social media and the (very) light games. Even significant YouTube gives my wife's 1GB tablet fits at times. The RAM qty is very limiting.

 

[therealnickdanger]

I just now realized y'all were talking about the Z3735G and not the Z3735D. So the G is limited to 1GB RAM? That sucks. The D (in the Winbook TW100) has 2GB, which makes a huge difference in terms of usability, but it's still limited to content consumption due to performance and form factor.

If I were buying a new tablet today, I would seek out a Cherry Trail tablet or a budget/discounted i3 tablet.

 

[TeknoBug]

Tablet BIOS are often 32bit, which is why they ship with 32bit Windows OS, putting a 64bit Linux is possible with a 32bit BIOS workaround, but good luck getting 64bit Windows in there.

Oh and that Z3735G... ugh, could've been a Z3735D or F. One of my tablets has a Z3740 which supports dual channel memory, other variants of Z37** are single channel.