[geeks] iPad - a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:42:47PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> Geoff, your logic is relatively sound, although I still maintain that  
> undersold to make it super-stable (as is the case in AppleTV) an Atom  
> chipsets wouldn't hold a candle to the battry time you get from a well  
> made ARM SoC.
>
> Also the Atom chipset issue has limitations. Non of Intel's chipsets  
> have the power requirement  vs. video performance for a device like  
> iPad. ION is fine with video but would likely lay waste to the battery.

Of course, more power efficient than ION2 (but probably not as efficient
as the A4) would be to use the Intel chipset combined with a Broadcom
BCM70015, which does all major video decoding, at HD resolutions, for
under a watt.