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Re: Nexus 9

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Post by fumar »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #42

And of course the day before Apple announces its new iPad (allegedly). I really like having two very well funded companies in all out competition, it makes for some really great features and options in both products. The size thing is what I'm interested in though. I'm waiting to see if there actually is a 12" iPad pro tomorrow, otherwise I'll pull the trigger on a Note Pro. I get the pocket/purse argument for 9" but…

So far the best PDF annotation device, I have used is the Surface Pro 3. At 12 inches it displays PDFs very well. The pen is pressure sensitive and will reject any outside inputs.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by Symmetry »

Tloewald wrote: post #87
Symmetry wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's possible, but the Shield has a K1 varient with 4 32-bit A15 cores on the chip while the Nexus 9 has a varient of the K9 that has 2 64-bit Project Denver cores. The graphics are identical between the two versions of the K1 so I don't expect much difference in the GPU benchmarks, but I expect the CPU benchmark comparison to be interesting. On one hand we'll have four 3-wide conventional OoO cores. On the other w…

Is that big little cores or four symmetric cores?

Four symmetric cores - all A15s. I don't think NVidia has ever done big.LITTLE even though they had a fifth core with the same architecture but different process/gate sizes for lower power in some previous Tegra chips. But you can see from them all having the same max frequency that all four cores are the same.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by mdwrigh2 »

apetresc wrote: post #88
exDM69 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would expect it to bench pretty much the same as the Shield Tablet. It's not the same chip as in the Shield Tablet (which has an ARMv7 CPU). The GPU is the same but the CPU is the 64 bit Denver CPU (ARMv8). According to benchmarks should be a fair bit faster, especially in single thread execution.

Which one should be faster, the N9 or the Shield?

The N9.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by bouk »

davidw wrote: post #89
pisarzp wrote: post #49

I was using this device for last couple months. It's by far the best tablet I've ever used. It feels great when you hold it and thank god for better aspect ratio! (compared to N7). I also have N10, but never really liked it, it was quite cumbersome to hold it. N9 feels much better in hands. The thing I loved the most though was keyboard cover. It's narrow but you get used to it very fast. Typing on it was such a plea…

What is your relationship with Google?

According to his HN profile he's a Googler

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by davidw »

bouk wrote: post #94
davidw wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is your relationship with Google?

According to his HN profile he's a Googler

Yeah, thanks, I can see that, I'm just curious in what capacity he or she is using it.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by sheldor »

jbellis wrote: post #59

Apple finally admitted that bigger phones are better. Looks like Google is finally admitting that 4:3 is the right tablet aspect ratio. I'm kind of curious what the secret sauce is that makes Google think they are ready to sell a premium-priced tablet. Lollipop may be better than iOS 8 but is that enough to overcome the app gap? (Anecdata: my wife had her ipad mini stolen last week. We have 5 Android devices in the h…

And what exactly would that "app gap" be? I'm genuinely curious.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by bergie »

TwiztidK wrote: post #53
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #38

Anyone have experience installing Linux on an Android tablet to use for development work? I'd love to use it with tmux/vim to hack on stuff. Is battery life worth it?

A lot of people have used an SSH client on a tablet for development on a VPS or other server. There is a blog about it here: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...

My experience working on an Android tablet: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by zmmmmm »

This marks an interesting if subtle change in direction for Google. Suddenly they are talking about productivity on their tablet and even including a keyboard. Also recently we've seen massive upgrades to the Google Docs suite of apps as well, after they long languished as almost comically useless on Android for a long time. Once again, it makes me question whether Pichai taking over has had the unexpected effect of boosting Android and making it into their premier platform across a range of form factors instead of what seemed before to be mainly pigeon holing it as a phone / small tablet platform mainly for entertainment. Interesting times.

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by szatkus »

Symmetry wrote: post #92
Tloewald wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that big little cores or four symmetric cores?

Four symmetric cores - all A15s. I don't think NVidia has ever done big.LITTLE even though they had a fifth core with the same architecture but different process/gate sizes for lower power in some previous Tegra chips. But you can see from them all having the same max frequency that all four cores are the same.

32-bit K1 also has the companion core[1] (probaly Cortex A7).

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tegra-...

Re: Nexus 9

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Post by EduardoBautista »

s9ix wrote: post #60
jbellis wrote: post #59

Apple finally admitted that bigger phones are better. Looks like Google is finally admitting that 4:3 is the right tablet aspect ratio. I'm kind of curious what the secret sauce is that makes Google think they are ready to sell a premium-priced tablet. Lollipop may be better than iOS 8 but is that enough to overcome the app gap? (Anecdata: my wife had her ipad mini stolen last week. We have 5 Android devices in the h…

I'm not quite sure the 'app gap' exists still, does it? Recently switched from iPhone 5S > HTC One M8, and nothing reallllly I miss.

That's on phones. The tablet app gap still exists.
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