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The playbook uses a DUAL Core 1GHz processor while the 9900 uses a SINGLE Core processor
Not to mention the playbooks 1 gig of ram vs the 9900s 768mb.
Either way I don't think it even is a hardware thing. Look at the iPad 2: Despite it's low 512 ram and 1Ghz dual core processor it open apps faster than the playbook and just as fast as the iPhone 4/4s despite their screen size differences.
So yeah, it better be way faster than what we see with the playbook if they really want to make an impression.04-17-12 12:56 PM - I mentioned the fact that the PB has a dual core, but that's really irrelevant to single tasks - a 1.2 GHz single core processor will work faster than a dual core 1GHz processor when performing single tasks. When you combine that with all the other things (older technology - the PB was released months before the 9900, more complex OS and all the other stuff I covered), it's not surprising that the PB is slower than the 9900.The playbook uses a DUAL Core 1GHz processor while the 9900 uses a SINGLE Core processor Not to mention the playbooks 1 gig of ram vs the 9900s 768mb.
Either way I don't think it even is a hardware thing. Look at the iPad 2: Despite it's low 512 ram and 1Ghz dual core processor it open apps faster than the playbook and just as fast as the iPhone 4/4s despite their screen size differences.
So yeah, it better be way faster than what we see with the playbook if they really want to make an impression.
When it comes to multi-tasking, the 9900 and the PB are in two separate worlds. You're not getting the same level or complexisty of multi-tasking on the 9900 that you are on the PB, so saying the one multi-tasks better than the other is not a fair comparison.
Dual core does not make a processor faster than a single core. Depending on the task, a single core processor will operate faster than a slower speed dual core. So maybe it's me who should be rolling their eyes.
As for RAM, it's a small piece of the puzzle - there's always a bottleneck somewhere, and while the PB might have more RAM than the 9900, the lower speed of the processor combined with the more complex QNX OS creates the bottleneck that slows the entire thing down. I have my doubts that adding more RAM to the PB would speed it up much.
You can't really compare the iPad/iPhone combo to the PB/phone combo because the Ipad is running the EXACT SAME OS as the iPhone. Of course it's going to open apps in a similar fashion with similar hardware because they are the exact same apps. That's not the case with the PB when compared to say, the 9900. They don't run the same apps, they don't run the same hardware, they don't run the same OS, so comparin that to the Apple model is like comparing apples to a dumptruck.
In the end, based on the actual hardware and software of the two devices, the 9900 and the PB can't properly be compared to one another. They are far too different from each other (which is not the case with the iPad and iPhone - they're essentially the same device with some obvious differences). The hardware in the PB is not up to par with where it should be/should have been when it was released when looking at what the goal is of the hardware, but it's a good start, and further software updates and patches will be able to push that hardware as far as it can go.
JB04-17-12 01:39 PM
