Fastest 4.5 Watt Core M 5Y71 In Asus T300 Chi Competitive With Full Core i5 CPUs 48
MojoKid writes: Asus unveiled its latest addition to the Transformer series at CES in January, the Transformer Book Chi, which just recently began shipping. Available in three sizes, the new Transformer Book Chi Series features a 2-in-1 detachable design. The flagship Transformer Book T300 Chi offers a 12.5-inch screen, an Intel Core M processor, and a fanless cooling solution. The 2-in-1 detachable design employs a magnetic hinge that supports four usage modes: Attached, Detached, Flipped, and Tented. The T300 Chi measures about 0.65 inches when docked, making it slightly thinner than an Apple Macbook Air. Asus claims the T300 Chi is the world's thinnest Windows tablet, measuring just 0.28 inches thick. More interestingly, perhaps, is that Asus built this machine with Intel's fastest Core M chip, the Core M 5Y71. In the benchmarks, it competes well even with full-sized ultrabooks, though battery life does take a hit due to the system's mechanical limitations and smaller 31Whr battery. At prices from $400 to $900, this might be an interesting choice for anyone considering the new Surface 3, too.
So? (Score:5, Informative)
Intel is slapping i5 (and i7) on some pretty slow chips [cpubenchmark.net] these days...
Re:So? (Score:4, Informative)
Charging more for less, the Intel way!
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The i5 and i7 designations don't indicate performance but feature sets. Current i5 processors don't have hyper-threading, for example, but all current i7 processors do. The low end Pentiums didn't have virtualization support (but current Pentium-N do). All in all though, Intel branding and marketing with regard to their core product is a clusterfuck. Not even people who care about these things can readily tell which is the better CPU anymore.
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On laptop CPUs:
i3 = dual core, hyperthreading, 3MB cache, no turbo boost
i5 = dual core, hyperthreading, 3MB cache, turbo boost
i7 = dual or quad core, hyperthreading, 4MB cache (6 or 8MB for quads), turbo boost
On desktop CPUs:
i3 = dual core, hyperthreading, 3 or 4MB cache, turbo boost
i5 = quad core, no hyperthreading, 6MB cache,
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I've got the 5y10c version for now. The keyboard sucks, and IMNHO there is just no way in hell that these 5yXY chips are are even close to Us or as I compare to an i3 chromebook(i3-4005U) and a lenovo g50-70(i7-4510U). Furthermore in this day and age of 64b CPUs and 64b OSes 4GB is a sick joke(the reviewed model has 8GB). 8GB SHOULD be the MODERN lowend baseline by now.
Anything relatively graphically demanding is going to choke on the super hires screen in the model reviewed(1920x1080 is a better max cho
No! Faster laptops, please. (Score:5, Insightful)
I am getting tired of Volkswagon Beetle laptop computer. Intel is just now making a U-series processor as fast as an 4-year old M.
Are we heading into the computer dark ages?
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Re:No! Faster laptops, please. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a tablet. They're cramming the computer into the screen. So it needs to run cool.
Contrast that with a traditional laptop whose internal organs rest underneath the keyboard. It blows out excess heat out each side using a fan.
If you want a noisy, fast, Core i7 laptop, don't get a convertible.
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I totally agree, Intel has pretty much dumbed down the Core processors in order to cut power. Anyone who buys a ultrabook can expect a ultra low powered core i3 or i5. Yes, clock speed fools you into thinking its still a good CPU. But let me tell you, my new Macbook Air 2014 is slower just from using it then my 2010 Macbook Air. Sure, I mange better battery life for sure, but not without compromising performance a bit. Right now, the push seems to be toward saving energy and not worried so much about cloc
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Well, it's Intel branching out.
You want a fast laptop? They still exist - big, heavy, poor battery life, but plenty powerful and ready for the heaviest of gaming sessions or CAD or compiling or whatever.
But Intel's realized most PCs are "fast enough" so why not make a lower power chip so you can make cute, svelte, thin and light PCs that
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People buy way, way, way more phones and tablets than workstations. Intel will go where the market wants to go...
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After my Transformer Infinity, never again (Score:2)
After the incredible piece of shit that my TF700T was, never will I buy an Asus tablet again.
Nice screen (it was one of the first android tablets to have a really high-res screen), the graphics processor and CPU are fast...but they completely screwed the pooch on the flash architecture, making the thing crippled; any sort of disk IO causes it to slow to a crawl. There are all sorts of hacks to make just web browsing bearable, by using a ram disk to completely avoid the flash. People also put in the fastest
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ASUS is garbage now. It's a shame, because I used to always buy ASUS motherboards back in the 90s for their quality.
Not sure if you talking about a motherboard (computer) or tablet. But I've always bought ASUS (one EVGA and the last). Have a P6X58D, first batch of i7's and it's rock solid still. Have a ASUS Z97 (Sabertooth) kicking around if I find the time or need I'll install it, but this one is working just fine.
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I used to buy Thinkpads and top of line ones once I encountered a famous hardware problem and the manufacturer (Lenovo) refused to recognized the problem beyond the guarantee expiration. In fact, there was a recall for specific serial numbers which my laptop wasn't included in. My laptop failed not longer after the guarantee expiration and due to this exact manufacturing problem. Since the only option was to buy an expensive replacement motherboard I decided I will no longer and ever buy top of line laptops
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The only reason to buy an expensive metal cased laptop now is if the contents of and the immediate usability of the laptop is mission critical. So, if the laptop failing while on a critical business mission is a priority, pay for the metal case. Otherwise, the cheap plastic case on a laptop is more suitable because the electronics inside will be obsolete in almost all cases before the case fails enough for the machine to not be usable.
If you're buying business equipment, go for the steel desk and the fili
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Yes, but even the metal case doesn't guarantee it is shock proof. I got another Thinkpad, did I say I used to buy Thinkpads only for business purpose for a long time, and it was the fancy one when titanium was first introduced. It fell from about 2-3 feet in its padded case and just cracked as any other plastic one.
Plastic doesn't equate to fragile. There is planes build with composite material which is essentially plastic. This is a bit short to say a plastic case cannot endure.
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Yes. I agree completely. Fuck Asus. I bought the Transformer Prime from them, with the shitty ass wifi and GPS reception. The only thing they would do for it was give us some crappy ass GPS dongle to attach to the damn thing. Thankfully Amazon stepped up and honored people's requests for a refund due to it being essentially defective and the manufacturer refusing to help.
So I bought the Transformer Inifinity (two actually...one for me, one for my wife). The thing was pretty nice at first, but with every sin
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Yes. I agree completely. Fuck Asus. I bought the Transformer Prime from them, with the shitty ass wifi and GPS reception. The only thing they would do for it was give us some crappy ass GPS dongle to attach to the damn thing. Thankfully Amazon stepped up and honored people's requests for a refund due to it being essentially defective and the manufacturer refusing to help.
My Mom purchased a laptop Aspire_V5-571-6499 (Windows OS) it won't work for her, after the refund date she tried to, she was stuck with it so gave it to me. Trying to make the battery to last longer some things weren't give the power they needed, one being the WiFi, even changing the power settings the WiFi is worthless, it worked on 1 of 3 routers I have and not reliably. My son now has it and not really all that computer literate so he'll never know (it has a land line).
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I have a current Asus Transformer running Windows 8.1 and it's been a great tablet. If I tried to pretend it was a laptop I would probably be disappointed. But at the time I was trying to decide between buying a new 10" Android laptop and this thing, which runs real x86 Windows software. For the same price point I opted for the x86 tablet and I haven't looked back. I have an Asus 10" Android tablet that is about two years old and I haven't turned it on in weeks.
The Windows tablet stuff only needs enough
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That's why you need an SSD, not just embedded "flash". Perhaps eMMC 5.1 flash will be good enough.
Also why a machine with a hard drive is not that bad : it writes only slightly slower than it reads, and can write a single sector. A great SSD can be 100 times better than a HDD, but the worst HDD doesn't crumble down like slow, ill managed flash does.
Turbo (Score:3)
According to Passmark, this chip is clocked at 1.2GHz with a "Turbo" speed of 2.9GHz. In other words, it can do very short bursts at nearly 2.5x the clock speed, then have to scale back down to normal because of the heat it would generate. So while this thing looks awesome in synthetic benchmarks, how would it seriously handle in a sustained computing environment?
Re: Turbo (Score:1)
It's not meant for that. Short bursts of computing power are useful for many tasks such as rendering a webpage, converting an image and so, reducing latency and making the system feel snappier.
Re:Turbo (Score:4, Interesting)
Benchmarks are a more 'sustained' CPU load than typical home/office use. If anything, I think these would feel faster than the tests imply. Not everyone spends their day compiling code or applying Photoshop filters. (What's wrong with them?)
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What tablet is used in a sustained computing environment? This about portability and battery life, not rendering models or transcoding video.
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What tablet is used in a sustained computing environment? This about portability and battery life, not rendering models or transcoding video.
The first time you have to play a HD video whose codec isn't supported by the GPU and its drivers, you'll know.
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Intel comes with botnet: Intel AMT/Vpro/VT.
VNC server built in to the the chipset, pulls from frame buffer of intel gfx card. Also can upload the contents of your ram over the network or 3g if you have it. Cannot be permanently disabled (can always be remotely re-enabled).
Remotely is bad but can be blocked. I like the option of viewing my Ram (or an unchanging snapshot). As an old Amiga user it can be used for the previously undo-able things, be it grab music, videos, or grabbing a key used for a program, once you become familiar with it, it's very handy.
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It's just sad to think our uninformed (and probably uninformable) coward probab
always felt a 10.1 was just right for tablets (Score:4, Interesting)
Any smaller you have a large phone, larger a laptop, but this ASUS could change my mind; looks nice. If only it weren't a windows OS.
Misleading headline? (Score:3)
It may be competitive with an i5 (whatever that means) but only short bursty workloads because if it's anything like the other Core M processors out in the wild, it will start heavily throttling after a couple of minutes.
After Market Battery (Score:5, Funny)
I bought an after market lithium battery and now my laptop lasts for days, weeks, even months between charges. The extra weight is a tradeoff. When people see it, they ask "What the hell is that!" But that's normal when you are cutting edge.
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