A Tale of Two Hybrid Windows Devices: Clover Trail vs. Ivy Bridge
While I don’t yet have a Surface Pro, I do have two nearly identical new Windows 8 devices on hand, a Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T and a Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700T, making for an interesting comparison. The first is based on Intel’s new Atom “Clover Trail” chipset, which competes with ARM at the low-end of the market, while the second is built around a standard Intel Core i5 “Ivy Bridge” chipset. Which makes more sense? This comparison is pretty timely because the 500T (Atom) and 700T (Core i5) are just as similar to each other, from a form factor/hardware perspective, as are the
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Richard Hay
A Tale of Two Hybrid Windows Devices: Clover Trail vs. Ivy Bridge http://t.co/uAbsConR via @thurrott
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Mary Jo Foley
2 Samsung Win 8 PCs with 2 diff Intel chipsets (Clover Trail Atom and Ivy Bridge Core) go head to head: http://t.co/L3YHc8JK (via @thurrott)
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