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Originally Posted by pl001
I don't see that changing, at least not yet. These tablets may be 2x as fast as the old Clover Trail Atom tablets but from what I've read they are still only 1/4 as fast as the current Surface Pro and I believe memory is limited to 2GB.
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4GB max on the dual-channel processors.
It's a family of chips that runs from 1GB single channel memory for the cheapie Android-focused chip to 4GB on the top of the liner. And they are 64-bit chips.
And the question isn't about replacing most people's desktops (they're not core i5s nor intended to be; they soak up 5W instead of 50W, after all) but rather of replacing *some* people's desktops, which is something no android or iOS gadget can realistically claim (anecdotal claims aside--I saw somebody once claim, with a straight face, that a PalmPilot was all the computer anybody really needed).
And then, not everybody out there is running year old PCs.
There's a fair amount of people still using old desktops on PentiumDs and old Celerons (XP boxes run forever) to whom any Z3000 cpu will be an upgrade. Add in the ones using Netbooks, high school and college students--there is a pretty broad market for a properly configured/priced "tablet-by-day, desktop-by-night" computer.
Where this Dell is it of not remains to be seen, but whoever gets there first is going to score some serious sales.