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Intel Core M Notebooks Arrive, Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Tested
MojoKid writes: Intel's 14nm Core M Broadwell architecture was announced a few months ago but to date, 2-in-1 hybrid devices and laptops have only trickled out to the market. Lenovo recently took the wraps off their Yoga 3 Pro 13-inch ultralight notebook and it's one of the few devices on the market right now that offers a glimpse of what Intel's Core M processor is capable of in performance and battery life testing. The 4.5 Watt TDP Core M 5Y70 actually keeps pace with 15-Watt previous generation Core i5 mobile chips in testing, but with significantly better battery life. It also enables very thin and light designs like the 2.6 pound Yoga 3 Pro, which is an interesting machine. Its watchband hinge allows it to contort into various positions for tablet, tent, stand and standard modes. The hinge is a "you love it or hate it" kind of thing, but does come with a 3200x1800 IPS display.
The Helix 2 is a more reasonably priced convertible 2-in-1 from Lenovo. The screen resolution isn't quite as high, but it's still a very reasonable 1920x1080 on an 11.6" display. I've run the thing on batttery for 8 solid hours doing standard office type work with wifi enabled and it performs very well.. and unlike the Yoga 3 it is truly a fanless design.
You might want to hold off until the "pro" keyboards that include the addtional battery become more widely available. Those should boost the battery life up to around 12 hours or so.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Samsung makes the Galaxy line, not Apple.
I think it was joke vis-a-vis Apple making "phablet" phones after spending years insisting that people wouldn't like them because they can't use them with only one hand. Add to the fact that the iPhone 6 Plus looks kind of like a Galaxy S5 with less-rounded corners and there you go.
Or, to put it another way, "woosh."
One can be used as an actual computer while the iPad is slower by the actual benchmarks and is a consumption device for inbred neckbeards. Your move, mate.
According to ArsTechnica:
GeekBench 3: Multicore
Yoga Pro 3: 3981
iPad Air 2:4553
GFBench 3: Offscreen (Manhattan):
Yoga Pro 3: 23 fps
iPad Air 2: 33
GFBench 3: Offscreen (T-Rex):
Yoga Pro 3: 45 fps
iPad Air 2: 70.4
Obviously, I'm cherry-picking here, but still. The iPad Air 2 weighs much less than the Yoga, and gets better battery life. It should not be able to trounce it at any significant benchmark.
AMD will probabably leave the tablet market:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
The tablet market is in a price battle and profit margins for chip makers are minuscule, said Kevin Lensing, senior director for mobility solutions at AMD.
âoeWeâ(TM)re evaluating [tablets] closely. Itâ(TM)s not our priority,â Lensing said.
The intel Pentium M from 2004 with 130nm had a die size of 87mm2, and 140 million gates, or 35 per '130nm tile' so this make the current 14nm 10% the density relative the the technology size, not 1%
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
It has F keys, you just need to press a Fn modifier. My wife has one and she loves it. It replaced a Asus Tablet and Dell laptop for her.
Imagine how much better it would be as an actual computer if its graphics hardware was as fast as an iPad
Too bad the iPad's code signing policy means that unapproved apps have to go through the WebGL layer. Is the iPad's graphics hardware still fast in WebGL?