However when it comes to Dual-Core in a phone, the point still remains is it needed? I mean currently we have 1 core devices that run everything perfectly well. Some more then well... I still run two big PC rigs for higher end games, and notice how my second core barely moves in load. So yeah we could go back and fourth all day. At the end of the day we are still talking about phone devices. It will most definitely improve battery life. Performance? Yes if the system allows for the full support of Multi-threading, same goes for the apps. Which I believe is another year away from being fully supported on these devices. No I have not tested a Flyer with "Honeycomb" nor has anyone else except HTC. I have however played with a Nook Color that had the SDK port and it seemed to work quite well considering the lower specs of the Nook compared to these other high end tablets. So being a SDK and being buggy, something not official. I have good reason to think the Flyer will run Honeycomb very well.
No Apple is not known for being the top dog when it comes to hardware specs. Reason we can get a more powerful PC for less money with specs that are much better. Same goes for phone devices... They go for what works good, and what aims to their consumer. Apple is not known for being power hungry with specs.
So lets not make this a dumb argument. No need for calling users dumb. Keep it to yourself. Thanks
I maintain, games and everything use multiple cores just fine. It's not hard to see that at all. If you use ctrl+shift+esc in windows, you'll see it for yourself. Phones/tablets will also use multiple cores. Look at some of the nVidia dual/single core comparisons of real software. Yes, single core will work fine, for a certain amount of things, you're twisting my arguments. I never said otherwise. I did say that it will suffer a performance hit in things as basic as browsing. Again, go watch the videos.
In fact, I'll do my own little demo. I have here task manager after opening the following tabs in quick succession. Ny Times, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Central, and Pocket Now. Basically, some relatively complex sites. See the attached thumbnail. It's not as easy to read as some (stupid windows), but it's not hard to tell that this is multithreaded, and not necessarily easy for a 3.6Ghz Quad to do. They all opened in ~12 seconds combined on a 3mbit connection in google chrome. Now, this is obviously not a real world scenario for a tablet, my point was about the multithreading. Now, on your device of choice (phone/tablet) open just
one of those websites. Takes quite a bit longer, as much as 30 seconds some times. Using the extra power afforded by multiple cores can significantly reduce that. I think I saw an nVidia demo where they were loading in ~5-10 seconds each. That is just the web browser (which is confirmed multithreaded). What about even more intense stuff? Flash? Games? These will all do multicore, and far sooner than one would want to replace a tablet. Second test is a game called Team Fortress 2. Not even close to a high end game, but that was the reason I tested it, to show even low end games are multithreaded. You can see I jumped into game (mid use as game loaded), played for about 20 seconds (higher use), and quit (return to idle use). I welcome you to do your own test, and post the results if you want. Just give the name of the program and what you did please. If you can, keep it with free/common software so I might try it as well.
My point is things are already going to take advantage of dual core out of the gate. Multithreading is near ubiquitious in todays (and even yesterdays) software, and will not take anywhere near the time it took to get multiple PC cores running right. In fact,
here is an article from 6 months ago on google developer blog on how to best multithread your app. Android has supported multithreading for quite some time it seems, just not necessarily on two cores to this point. If that's not high on your priority list, more power to you. I respect that position. This entire conversation was based entirely around your statement that dual core is not going to do much if anything. That is entirely incorrect.
As for apple, you're correct in saying we are talking about phone/tablets here, not PC's. When the iPad launched, the specs on it were excellent, in the top few percentiles as I said before for mobile tech. Same with the iPhone 4. I wasn't talking about PC's in that case.
As for calling you dumb, I did no such thing. If that was your impression, I apologize. None of this is meant as any kind of personal attack, just a correction of something I see as incorrect.