The True Successor to the Xoom is here: Nexus 10

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For me the benefits of the Nexus 10 over the Xoom are processor, RAM and screen. The downside is lack of uSD expansion (though I could get away with 32GB) and the lack of dual band WiFi thought it's nice to see MIMO and HT40 support for 802.11n. And also the general plastic build quality from Samsung. :(
 
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I am surprised why nexus has a dual core and not a quad core like its lil brother. If I over clock my Xoom the only major diff is ram and lil bit of screen. On the other hand Xoom has extendable storage and better build. So I will choose Xoom. I don't think Nexus 10 is a true successor.

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Its a misconception that more cores = more power. The processor in the Nexus 10 is easily more powerful than the quad core tegra 3 in the Nexus 7 and significantly more powerful than the aged Tegra 2 in the Xoom.

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madazam

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Can u plz explain a lil more ? I tried finding a diff between the processors of Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Xoom but couldn't ...

Thanks ....

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XxLordxX

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Can u plz explain a lil more ? I tried finding a diff between the processors of Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Xoom but couldn't ...

Thanks ....

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The thing is... It's all about the architecture which they are built. The A15 architecture can handle much more processes than an A9 (like Xoom) so there's no need to have many cores, as it's not necessary and more cores = worse battery life

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The (Cortex-)A15 architecture can handle much more processes than an (Cortex-)A9
... or more exactly, "The C15 has the ability to do more per given time than a C9 can", so two C15s can outstrip four C9s. There's more to it than just the speed of the processor core as well- the internal buses and some of the on-chip peripherals are more advanced too.
 
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madazam

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The thing is... It's all about the architecture which they are built. The A15 architecture can handle much more processes than an A9 (like Xoom) so there's no need to have many cores, as it's not necessary and more cores = worse battery life

"This Story Ends Where It Began"
Thx man! Will do more research on this. And by the way thanks for the AIO tool, it was a good programme, hopefully 7 heavens will be even better...:)

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Additionally, 4 cores are rather useless if the software doesnt take advantage of them. Which happens to be the case with most apps.
True, but the OS (Linux and the Dalvik VM) will take advantage of it, with the biggest win being that background apps (and there's a lot of them) will run on the other cores. But with Android being a "Foreground First" OS (nothing really heavy going on in the background once you switch away from an app) it's not essential.
 

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True, but the OS (Linux and the Dalvik VM) will take advantage of it, with the biggest win being that background apps (and there's a lot of them) will run on the other cores. But with Android being a "Foreground First" OS (nothing really heavy going on in the background once you switch away from an app) it's not essential.
Sure but when you start talking some of the premium, higher end games, the quad core Tegra 3 is easily beat out by the Exynos 5, Cortex A15 dual core processor.
 

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Sure but when you start talking some of the premium, higher end games, the quad core Tegra 3 is easily beat out by the Exynos 5, Cortex A15 dual core processor.
That's only because a lot of the games are made and optimized specifically for the tegra 3 gpu. Chain fire has an app that will pretty much optimized the Mali gpu to run the same tegra 3 stuff. Tried all the tegras and wasn't impressed as much as I thought I'd be. Sticking with exynos for now

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