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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I'm not sure a pure ereader like the Kindle or Kobo needs a more powerful CPU. The Android ereaders do, yes, but then again Android requires a lot more resources.
Frankly, a pure ereader spends a lot of time just sitting there doing nothing while you read the screen. That would leave enough time to finish resource-intensive tasks, wouldn't it?
I'd think that Kobo would have put a dual-core CPU in the Aura H2O if it were worthwhile. They could have marketed it as being twice as powerful as any other ereader on the market.
Amazon could have done the same with the Kindle Voyage.
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A year ago Amazon could only have done so at the price of significantly greater power consumption. My understanding is that the new CPU is more powerful while at the same time using less power than its predecessor. We'll have to wait and see which is the first reader to use it; it would make sense to do so.
I don't believe for an instant that Goodereader has any inside information about this or anything else, needless to say.