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Originally Posted by rkomar
It is more or less expected now that E-Ink readers will be able to go weeks between charging. That is probably the biggest differentiator between e-readers and tablets to most people; not the lack of LCD lighting. As such, the systems are designed to use as little power as possible. Single CPU, low clock speed, aggressive sleep management,... that's what it takes to keep battery usage down. A system that uses high power and thus needs daily recharging is going to upset a lot of people.
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I tend to believe that using dual core instead of single core should probably reduce power consumption, not increase it. If you have the same chunks of code to process, you process that same amount, whether sequentially or parallely. Dual core should be more efficient (than dual processor) and reduce task switching (especially on Android, well suited for parallelism).
Your point raises a very interesting question, worth looking into.