Does anyone have an iPad 2 and a Xoom who can run some common application and run them 'til they're dead?
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No one has yet mentioned the big difference here? Seriously?? Yes, of course the iPad2 crushed the Xoom in raw performance! That's because it's running at a far lower resolution. 1280x800 on the Xoom vs 1024x768 on the iPad2. When comparing graphics cards, do people honestly compare an AMD card running at 1024 with an nVidia card running at 1280? I'm guessing the benchmarks would be a LOT closer if they were running at the same res. I'm not suggesting the Xoom would win in that case. I honestly don't know or care. But, I get a little nauseated when I see big headlines like "ipad2 has double the graphics performance of the xoom!" Give me a break.
Definitely underwhelmed by the xoom.
1. Main gripes being that its heavy, and hard to hold due to its thin bezel. Of course this is all relative depending on the person.
2. Screen is mediocre compared to the iPad.
3. Tegra 2 can't play 720p that well
4. Barely any codec support.
5. Battery life not up to par with its main competitor (ipad)
Honestly I'd like to see a non tegra2 honeycomb tablet soon. Very disappointed in tegra2 capabilities. Lets see what OMAP or the orion processor has to over in terms of performance.
adjust 25% to make up for resolution difference, IPAD 2 still wins by a big margin
I wonder if it's really about the hardware, or if it's about ios vs android.
Now that iPad-2 has raised the bar 3-4x what anyone else does, developers have a LOT more headroom to play with. There will be games ONLY for iPad-2 for the same reasons you can't play Crysis on a Pentium-4.I think the performance difference is a bit of a non-issue. Unless you're planning on doing things that are really graphics intensive, these two tablets will likely play the same games, and look roughly the same while doing it.
I really don't get the ipad2 hype. Something about that same iphone look on a 10 inch tablet just don't do it for me. The slight thinnest is not that big of a deal and if you have an original ipad, its just a waste of money to get an ipad2.(imo)
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