Hello SnowRipple,
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Originally Posted by SnowRipple
I don't think that quad core processors would hurt the battery much.
There is already a n e-reader with quad core processor -Inkbook Prime - and they claim 4 weeks of working for standard usage- which is plenty.
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For me, 4 weeks is a minimum for an e-reader, With my M92, the minimum is 6 weeks, with roughly two hours by day. A test was done : 76 hours with sometimes Wifi and WEB. I doesn't use the Wifi, my battery life is higher.
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Originally Posted by SnowRipple
The other thing is that even if you have more cores, you don't have to use them all all the time hence the energy consumption is not that affected as one might think.
You can research latest Snapdragon processors - with every iteration their energy efficiency is so much better! This is a nice example where the e-reader industry has benefited from mobile industry I think  |
I'm well enough old (too old ?), to can remember a time where the developers worked hard to have a code small, fast and efficient. A time (many years ago) where the memory and the CPU was used with measure to have the best performances.
Give more memory and CPU to a lazy developer and you can obtain a ugly and slow code that consumes the resources and the power. The extraordinary progress done by the hardware like Snapdragon processors could be lost.