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Di ko kasi sure kung may thread na about tablets so naisip ko lang gumawa. Updates / information on any brand tablets welcome!


On topic... Ganda ng advertisement ng Motorola Xoom dito sa US... Parang naglalaro ng hires ps3 version ng Colony Wars!

kung sakaling bibili ako ng tablet baka Motorola Xoom ang kukunin ko

VincH wrote:kung sakaling bibili ako ng tablet baka Motorola Xoom ang kukunin ko

available na ba satin ang Xoom bro? last month nakikita ko lang kasi mga iPad at Galaxy tab eh...

hindi ko din alam eh

pero mukhang mas ok ang specs nito kesa ipad 2

^yup.. ganda nga ng xoom, hanep sa specs.. sana magkaron dito sa Pinas nyan..

on paper, it looks like the iPad has no chance, but in the user experience department it can't be surpassed, check out the sales of the iPad 2, its selling like hotcakes

"user experience department" = the feeling mindless apple fanatics get when they buy the latest apple product

Actually ginawan na ng hardware performance comparisons ang xoom, ipad 1 at ipad2. Sa mga results, mas mataas sa graphics department ang ipad2 compared sa xoom. Ang advantage ng xoom naman was naka 1gb ram na siya compared to the ipad2 na 512mb lang.

Xoom : Ipad performace test



Early, detailed benchmarks of the iPad 2's performance have provided a surprise win by Apple over the Motorola Xoom. Despite NVIDIA's reputation for fast graphics, AnandTech found the PowerVR SGX543MP2 in the iPad 2 was in some cases several times faster in Imagination Technologies' GLBenchmark 2.0 than the Xoom's Tegra 2 chip. While the Xoom has to drive a higher 1280x800 resolution, the difference wouldn't have been enough to claim the edge.
Web tests, which leaned more heavily on the processor, also favored Apple. Both Apple's A5 and NVIDIA's Tegra 2 are ARM Cortex-A9 processors, but the iPad 2 loaded pages significantly faster. The benchmark was both a demonstration of whatever optimizations were made to the A5 as well as to the Nitro JavaScript engine. For Google, the loss might be felt deeper as it has built the reputation of its Chrome desktop browser, which Android 3.0 shares, on speed.

The performance increase may have been more impressive given Apple's hardware performance. Its A5 is clocked at about 900MHz, lower than the 1GHz on the Tegra 2 in the Xoom. Mobile Geekbench 2 tests comparing the iPad 2 to the original supported Apple's claims that the new model's A5 was about twice as quick in raw math.

The tests don't necessarily reflect performance in every condition and could see Motorola's tablet run faster if an app were properly optimized. However, at least in raw performance, the benchmarking would give Apple a performance lead not just over the Xoom but over every Android 3.0 tablet using the same 1GHz Tegra 2, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Earlier this morning we published our first impressions on Apple's iPad 2, including analysis on camera quality and a dive into the architecture behind Apple's A5 SoC. Our SoC investigation mostly focused on CPU performance, which we found to be a healthy 50% faster than the A4 in the original iPad - at least in web browsing. We were able to exceed Apple's claim of up to 2x performance increase in some synthetic tests, but even a 50% increase in javascript and web page loading performance isn't anything to be upset about. We briefly touched on the GPU: Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX 543MP2. Here Apple is promising up to a 9x increase in performance, but it's something we wanted to investigate.



Architecturally the 543MP2 has more than twice the compute horsepower of the SGX 535 used in Apple's A4. Each shader pipeline can execute twice the number of instructions per clock as the SGX 535, and then there are four times as many pipes in an SGX 543MP2 as there are in a 535. There are also efficiency improvements as well. Hidden surface removal works at twice the rate in the 543MP2 as it did in the 535. There's also a big boost in texture filtering performance as you'll see below.

As always we turn to GLBenchmark 2.0, a benchmark crafted by a bunch of developers who either have or had experience doing development work for some of the big dev houses in the industry. We'll start with some of the synthetics.

Over the course of PC gaming evolution we noticed a significant increase in geometry complexity. We'll likely see a similar evolution with games in the ultra mobile space, and as a result this next round of ultra mobile GPUs will seriously ramp up geometry performance.

Here we look at two different geometry tests amounting to the (almost) best and worst case triangle throughput measured by GLBenchmark 2.0. First we have the best case scenario - a textured triangle:



The original iPad could manage 8.7 million triangles per second in this test. The iPad 2? 29 million. An increase of over 3x. Developers with existing titles on the iPad could conceivably triple geometry complexity with no impact on performance on the iPad 2.

Now for the more complex case - a fragment lit triangle test:



The performance gap widens. While the PowerVR SGX 535 in the A4 could barely break 4 million triangles per second in this test, the PowerVR SGX 543MP2 in the A5 manages just under 20 million. There's just no competition here.

I mentioned an improvement in texturing performance earlier. The GLBenchmark texture fetch test puts numbers to that statement:



We're talking about nearly a 5x increase in texture fetch performance. This has to be due to more than an increase in the amount of texturing hardware. An improvement in throughput? Increase in memory bandwidth? It's tough to say without knowing more at this point.

Apple iPad vs. iPad 2
  Apple iPad (PowerVR SGX 535) Apple iPad 2 (PowerVR SGX 543MP2)
Array test - uniform array access
3412.4 kVertex/s
3864.0 kVertex/s
Branching test - balanced
2002.2 kShaders/s
11412.4 kShaders/s
Branching test - fragment weighted
5784.3 kFragments/s
22402.6kFragments/s
Branching test - vertex weighted
3905.9 kVertex/s
3870.6 kVertex/s
Common test - balanced
1025.3 kShaders/s
4092.5 kShaders/s
Common test - fragment weighted
1603.7 kFragments/s
3708.2 kFragments/s
Common test - vertex weighted
1516.6 kVertex/s
3714.0 kVertex/s
Geometric test - balanced
1276.2 kShaders/s
6238.4 kShaders/s
Geometric test - fragment weighted
2000.6 kFragments/s
6382.0 kFragments/s
Geometric test - vertex weighted
1921.5 kVertex/s
3780.9 kVertex/s
Exponential test - balanced
2013.2 kShaders/s
11758.0 kShaders/s
Exponential test - fragment weighted
3632.3 kFragments/s
11151.8 kFragments/s
Exponential test - vertex weighted
3118.1 kVertex/s
3634.1 kVertex/s
Fill test - texture fetch
179116.2 kTexels/s
890077.6 kTexels/s
For loop test - balanced
1295.1 kShaders/s
3719.1 kShaders/s
For loop test - fragment weighted
1777.3 kFragments/s
6182.8 kFragments/s
For loop test - vertex weighted
1418.3 kVertex/s
3813.5 kVertex/s
Triangle test - textured
8691.5 kTriangles/s
29019.9 kTriangles/s
Triangle test - textured, fragment lit
4084.9 kTriangles/s
19695.8 kTriangles/s
Triangle test - textured, vertex lit
6912.4 kTriangles/s
20907.1 kTriangles/s
Triangle test - white
9621.7 kTriangles/s
29771.1 kTriangles/s
Trigonometric test - balanced
1292.6 kShaders/s
3249.9 kShaders/s
Trigonometric test - fragment weighted
1103.9 kFragments/s
3502.5 kFragments/s
Trigonometric test - vertex weighted
1018.8 kVertex/s
3091.7 kVertex/s
Swapbuffer Speed
600
599
Enough with the synthetics - how much of an improvement does all of this yield in the actual GLBenchmark 2.0 game tests? Oh it's big.

GLBENCHMARK 2.0 EGYPT & PRO PERFORMANCE

Medyo malaki din namam pala difference ng A4 sa A5 processor between the 2 pads.

Anyway, di ko pa nakikita yung Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1....meron na ba balita kung ano mga bagong features?

seraph magkano kuha mo sa ipad 2 mo? im thinking of buying one, may money nako kaso problema shipping may relatives ako sa us pero hesitant pa din ako, may xoom din kasi so confused pako..ma xoom naba sa local market?

Yung binili ko kasi yung 64gb wifi white na ipad 2 na may kasamang smart case. Yung total ko was $780 something eh. Pero mas popular ata yung 32 gb lang on all models, nag upgrade lang ako to 64gb kasi nilalagyan ko ng mga buong anime series...

Yung xoom naman ang alam ko available na din dito sa US kasi may nakikita na ako sa best buy. Di ko maalala yung price pero may nagsabi sakin na mas mataas ata ng $150 eh...gulat nga ako...sana di totoo kasi masyado naman mahal pag mataas pa presyo niya sa bagong ipad.

Satin sa Pinas di ko alam kung may Xoom na...best na tumingin tingin kung meron na sa cybermall part ng SM o kaya sa Greenhills kasi dami sila nakukuhanan. Kaya lang pag sa greenhills ka pupunta, dapat medyo maingat ka lang din.

Di ako sure about sa shipping ha, pero based sa experience ko sa ebay, yung size at weight ng ipad2 baka abutin ka mga $30 pataas sa shipping depende na din kung papaexpress mo or papainsure mo.

32 gb lang pwede na sakin..siguro nga papabili nalang ako sa us.pag pinadala kaya dito yun hindi mahaharang sa customs?

sa frs express nga pala nagpapaship yung tita ko.

Hmm...di ako masyado sure about sa JRS bro. Tawagan mo muna siguro sila para sigurado...mahirap kasi dahil baka patungan ng malaki sa customs dahil papasok ata siya as valuables/electronics.

Kailan ba magkakaroon ng iPad 2 dito sa pinas? Pinapatanong kasi ng utol ko.

laki daw ng binaba ng Ipad prices sa mga Power Mac ah. P19k na lang daw?

VincH wrote:laki daw ng binaba ng Ipad prices sa mga Power Mac ah. P19k na lang daw?

yup, lahat ng ipad 1 prices dropped by $100. galing nga ng apple eh, yung ipad2 same price nung pumabas yung ipad1 model...so instead of jacking up the prices of ipad2, binaba na lang nila yung price ng ipad1.

Augmented reality for tablets?! Ang galing naman...ganda ng mga future possible uses!

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/03/15/ ... s-amazing/