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Intel Bay Trail performance preview thread

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OTH,the GPU looks like it will probably be outdated before it will even make full production. Some of the new ARM based SOCs seem to have faster IGPs,and I wonder how the 64 bit ARM cores will stack up?? The Apple A7 is the first of this new ARM breed.

I think over the next year,the battleground is going to be quite interesting!
 
Why would it have SATA and PCI-E support? It's for Tablets isn't it?
They never even launched clovertrail for laptops/netbooks (Which tbh, they don't need to anymore, they can throw out Haswell Pentiums for that task now)
 
Martini1991 said:
Why would it have SATA and PCI-E support? It's for Tablets isn't it?
They never even launched clovertrail for laptops/netbooks (Which tbh, they don't need to anymore, they can throw out Haswell Pentiums for that task now)
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AFAIK,its one chip covering tablets,low end desktops and sub-notebooks.

I suspect,both SATA and PCI-E probably ups power consumption a decent amount so that is why they have been deactivated.

It will be interesting to see how much the mini-ITX Bay Trail motherboards cost??

I wonder how much of a performance boost it would be compared to an E3400 and Nvidia 9300 IGP?? OTH,maybe a IB or Haswell Celery would make more sense.
 
JonSmith said:
The lack of SATA support means these things are gonna be paired with godawful EMMC flash storage, which is nigh on unusable for windows.
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Thread bump, but I picked up a Baytrail tablet this week and the eMMC is not really a problem - its a hell of a lot nicer to use than most similarly priced systems (sub-£350) with mechanical drives that's for sure!

I tested it with Crystal Disk Mark and it'll do about 80MB/sec read, which isn't massive but latencies are low so its nicely responsive.

Got various videos of the system up here, including some gaming tests and trying out Quicksync: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrueComputing
 
Absolutely stunning tablet imo, shame about the screen resolution and build quality, I picked up a Surface 2, but my usage on it is limited due to it being ARM and Windows RT being limited.
Intel's tablet offerings are pretty impressive.

I have my 1.8GHZ Ivy Netbook to do anything more productive.
 
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Martini1991 said:
Is it the Asus TA100 you picked up?
Absolutely stunning tablet imo, shame about the screen resolution and build quality, I picked up a Surface 2, but my usage on it is limited due to it being ARM and Windows RT being limited.

I have my 1.8GHZ Ivy Netbook to do anything more productive.
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Yep, T100. I got a US import as I wanted a 64GB model, just need to find myself a UK dock for it now. :)

The screen resolution is a bit of a mixed bag - I normally bang on about needing higher resolution displays as I want more workspace (<3 my 1080p 13.3" ultrabook at running at 96DPI), but on this at 10.1" its not too bad as I'd rather not have to enable Windows scaling and no way I could avoid that if it was 1080p.

Build quality is pretty good IMO. I took apart the keyboard dock to see if there was a hidden connector for an additional drive in there after seeing rumours of a 500GB dock model (no such luck, if it does exist it'll be a physically different dock), but when I tried to get in to the tablet itself as all the bits like shutlines are VERY tight and aren't going anywhere.

The materials are a little 'meh' though I will admit. I like the plastic of the dock and the keyboard has a really key feel to it (if a touch cramped) - only real complaint there is the touchpad clicks down a bit too far and noisily.

On the tablet side they could have improved it by using the same plastic as the dock for the back of the screen rather than the glossy stuff, or better yet going with a soft touch coating like the Nexus 7.
 
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