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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Is the Fire HD a quad-core?
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Dual with vector-processing and high-grade GPU:
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The 4th generation OMAPs, OMAP 4430, 4460 (formerly named 4440),[11] and 4470 all use dual-core ARM Cortex-A9s. [12][13][14] 4430 and 4460 use a PowerVR SGX540 integrated 3D graphics accelerator which runs at a clock frequency of 304 and 384 MHz respectively compared to prior versions of SGX540 typically at 200 MHz making them theoretically much faster.[15] 4470 has a PowerVR SGX544 GPU that supports DirectX 9 which enables it for use in Windows 8 as well as a dedicated 2D graphics core for increased power efficiency up to 50-90%%.[16] All OMAP 4 come with an IVA3 multimedia hardware accelerator with a programmable DSP that enables 1080p Full HD and multi-standard video encode/decode.[17][18][19][20][21] OMAP 4 uses ARM-Cortex A9s with ARMs SIMD engine (Media Processing Engine, aka NEON) which may have a significant performance advantage in some cases over Nvidia Tegra 2s Cortex-A9s with non-vector floating point units.[22] It also uses a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller compared to Nvidia Tegra 2s single-channel memory controller.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4
It'll do.
Besides, that screen!
(I had a great dell laptop that ran 1080p on a 17" screen and it was gorgeous. FireHD is 4X that. At 10% of the price.)