Would you rather have a portable powered by Core M, or Atom? Why?

[ElFenix]

What does portable mean?

 

[Essence_of_War]

Years down the road I hope someone on the inside writes a book and tells the story on Atom. I think this in the biggest unanswered question in the technology sector- why wasn't Atom better?

Its starting to look like its finding its niche as a hosted or hostless vector accelerator card in the Xeon Phi, but even that version of atom (4 way HT, AVX 512, extra vector registers, etc) isn't what gets sold as "celeron" and "pentium" now.

It has been a pretty bizarre ride.

 

[kjanadtech]

totally agree. but there are some atom with pcie storage. anandtech just reviewed one [voyo v3]. give me atom with pcie storage, lte, gps, etc. for 8 hour portability the emmc storage is just too slow in most (if not all) atom tablets

 

[kjanadtech]

Ha, ha, that's because you paid the Surface tax!!! Typically, though, Core M devices are more expensive.

But yes, eMMC is a problem, whereas you get full-on SATA3 (if not PCIe) SSDs in Core M devices.

Potatoes have superior performance/$

I'd definitely choose the device with properly fast storage. I've experienced too many mobile devices bottlenecked by cheap flash storage. Modern Atom isn't that unbearable to use for basic tasks which I usually do on portables.

totally agree. but there are some atom with pcie storage. anandtech just reviewed one [voyo v3]. give me atom with pcie storage, lte, gps, etc. for 8 hour portability the emmc storage is just too slow in most (if not all) atom tablets

 

[ElFenix]

totally agree. but there are some atom with pcie storage. anandtech just reviewed one [voyo v3]. give me atom with pcie storage, lte, gps, etc. for 8 hour portability the emmc storage is just too slow in most (if not all) atom tablets

FORESEE FSSSDBEBCC-128G
(128 GB; M.2 2242 SATA 6Gb/s; MLC)

not pcie. but at least not emmc garbage, either.

 

[Eug]

What does portable mean?

For something laptop-class, including netbooks, I'd prefer Core M. For a phone or handheld gaming device Atom. For tablets it's kind of a toss up.

For a laptop, I'd also prefer Core M, but for a phone so far I'm very happy with ARM, which also happens to be much cheaper than Atom generally.

I think this is reflective of the problem with Atom.

I borrowed one of these a few times when I was a kid. I thought it was interesting, but oh so heavy. It was like 30 lbs. These days I complain because non-Core M laptops are over 3 lbs.

 

[PingSpike]

Only Latvian could use Atom. But need potato. Such is life.

 

[ElFenix]

I borrowed one of these a few times when I was a kid. I thought it was interesting, but oh so heavy. It was like 30 lbs. These days I complain because non-Core M laptops are over 3 lbs.

We've all gotten to be wimps. I used to haul around more than 3 lbs in batteries alone just to have enough juice to use the laptop all day. Had 2 main and a bay battery. Remember swappable bays? Those were so useful. Gigabyte has one on their bigger gaming laptop, but for some reason no battery accessory, which seems dumb.

 

[bhtooefr]

30 lbs? Pfft, lightweight. My IBM 5155 is 34.8. (Granted, it's been made heavier by a bunch of cards and a hard drive, but...)

 

[cytg111]

The survivalist in me wants a portable powered by a potato ... hands down.

 

[ehume]

The survivalist in me wants a portable powered by a potato ... hands down.

That way you won't go hungry.

 

[cytg111]

That way you won't go hungry.

Gotcha! You refer to the fact, of course, that with the potato and my own feces i could grow many more potatos .. so on and so on..

Good thinking.

Definitely the potato then!