By: gallier2 (gallier2.delete@this.gmx.de), May 14, 2013 1:31 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on May 13, 2013 6:52 pm wrote:
snip (completely agree with what you wrote there).
> This is desktop of course. I see no reason to believe that better than dual CPU makes sense on any
> phone or tablet in the next few years. Basically: it makes sense to have the extra computation boost
> available IF you occasionally hit situations that utilize --- that odn't have to be common, but
> they do have to exist. On the desktop these situations do exist; on mobile not so much.
Smart phones do have situations where they need quite a lot of processing power in short order. Having several cores, mostly idle the rest of the time, at disposition in these situations makes a difference. The processing power of the Galaxy S3 comes really handy when using the device as a navigation system in the car. I've never saw a system before that recomputed a path as fast as my phone, the navteq, tomtoms and other system I tried were always slower, a thing that was really annoying when you were driving in big cities like Paris, Francfort or Brussels. The GS3 (and I suppose all high end phones) does it at breathtaking speed and still handles the mp3 playing, the voice synthesis, the 3D visualisation and the calls without a sweat.
snip (completely agree with what you wrote there).
> This is desktop of course. I see no reason to believe that better than dual CPU makes sense on any
> phone or tablet in the next few years. Basically: it makes sense to have the extra computation boost
> available IF you occasionally hit situations that utilize --- that odn't have to be common, but
> they do have to exist. On the desktop these situations do exist; on mobile not so much.
Smart phones do have situations where they need quite a lot of processing power in short order. Having several cores, mostly idle the rest of the time, at disposition in these situations makes a difference. The processing power of the Galaxy S3 comes really handy when using the device as a navigation system in the car. I've never saw a system before that recomputed a path as fast as my phone, the navteq, tomtoms and other system I tried were always slower, a thing that was really annoying when you were driving in big cities like Paris, Francfort or Brussels. The GS3 (and I suppose all high end phones) does it at breathtaking speed and still handles the mp3 playing, the voice synthesis, the 3D visualisation and the calls without a sweat.
