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Old 11-19-2011, 07:14 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by ProDigit View Post
The reason most readers only have a 200Mhz processor is because it saves them loads of energy.
This is incorrect; the Kindle, for example, has a 532MHz ARM Freescale processor. The key feature of the CPUs used in most modern bookreaders is not that they are slow, but that they have an extremely low-power "sleep" mode when not in active use.

It was only the very first generation of eInk devices which had processors as slow as 200MHz - eg, the original Cybook Gen3.

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