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Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9

An anonymous reader points to an interesting comparison of current tablets' peformance, as measured with the Geekbench benchmarking tool, which boils down various aspects of performance to produce a single number. The clear winner from the models fielded wasn't from Apple of Samsung (Samsung's entrants came much lower down, in fact), but from Microsoft: the i5-equipped Surface Pro 3, with a Geekbench score of 5069.; second place goes to the Apple iPad Air 2, with 4046. The Nexus 9 rated third, with 3537. One model on the list that U.S. buyers may not be familiar with is the Tesco Hudl 2, a bargain tablet which Trusted Reviews seems quite taken by.

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  1. That's fine and all by mystuff · · Score: 1, Troll

    But does it run Linux?

    1. Re:That's fine and all by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yeah I hope this is a joke article?

      It gets really hot, lasts 3 hours on battery, weighs as much as laptop, runs a bad, antiquated desktop operating system, etc.

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