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Originally Posted by taosaur
I think I've stated about six different ways by now that there are legitimate reasons for preferring either product based on your priorities. You asked how the STR's hardware is more powerful and flexible, and I told you. It is more powerful and flexible by any measure. Whether that fact is important to you is a matter of preference. I was not arguing against your preference, simply answering your question.
0_o The Nook Touch has an 800Mhz CPU, probably the same ARM7 found in the Nook Color (we'll know after a teardown). No previously released e-ink reader had such a processor.
According to this thread, the PRS 650 is running a Freescale CPU with maximum clock speed of 532Mhz.
And again, 0_o Having direct access to a store on your reader is about as far from being a "cool techno geek" as you can get. It skips all steps involving an actual computer and reduces the process to poke, poke, read. If you see no use for Wi-Fi in your reading, congratulations; some others feel the same way. That fact does not make other peoples' preference for wireless connectivity bad and wrong. |
No, you haven't answered my question. You didn't come up with an actual better hardware thing. You just said it might be hacked to this 'n' that. This is not an argument in terms of better hardware. It is an argument about the abilities of hackers, that's it.
You can't obviously tell if the processor in the Nook is better as the one in the Sony and why. You just state no other reader has it yet. And? Maybe because it is crap? I don't know but you don't know either or you would tell me why it is better.
As for the wifi. Well, I don't know if it is a preference. It caters to a certain aspect of the American culture. But so do TV-dinners and serial killers. Doesn't mean its a good thing.