http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/01/21/antutu-benchmark-rockchip-rk3288-arm-v...http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/247502?baseline=786009 Chromebooks vs ChromekillersFolks have begun to pre-compare the new $150 Chromebooks built on the Rockchip RK3288 to what Intel is preparing to ship as the Classmate PC. Education is after all THE primary competition zone between ARM and Intel right now.
The RK3288 ARM based Chromebook will sell for around $150 which puts it well below the Intel offering in price EVEN AFTER THE INTEL AND MS PRICE SUPPORTS ARE ALL APPLIED.
According to the benchmarks, the RK3288 out performs the Intel N2910 ......
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/247502?baseline=786009..... and outperforms the very popular price supported Z3735F.
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/01/21/antutu-benchmark-rockchip-rk3288-arm-v...Question then becomes
"How come you can't buy the better chipset since it goes into a cheaper Chromebook that performs better?"The answer is simple and them Cabaret singers told you the whole story long ago ......
Money Money Money ...... Intel Money !!
Intel spent a lot of money to make sure that you never saw an RK3288 chipset in a Chromebook -- and they will spend even more $$$ to make sure you don't see the new ones from Lenovo or Asus either.
What is scary to Intel is that the old 28nm RK3288 beats Intel's 22nm best 3rd generation and all the applicable 4th generation 22nm Intel chipsets. Beats them pretty badly.
What should be even more scary is that the RK3188 was a stopgap chipset from a year ago that isn't as strong as A-57 (much less the A72) and it is still benchmarking better than two current Intel offerings that are built with a one generation better Intel 22nm lithography.
Rockchip, throw the RK3288 on 20nm or 16nm (why, because it is depreciated and has gotten way cheap and you already own the license and you already paid to have Google do all the Chromebook work) and move it forward into Education Chromebooks for $150 and
get on with the program.
Start killing all them Chromebook Killers ......
Rockchip, you are due a success off of the chipset you were given by ARM so you could go kick a little Intel butt .... but then again, it was far easier for you to take that same amount (or more) in Intel's "tech support" money NOT to go do that Intel butt kicking, now wasn't it?
In addition to the tech support money, Intel gave you their whole 22nm toolbox full of rusty pipe wrenches and Whitworth socket sets "in consideration", promised you endless support and tapped your people's brains for how to make an integrated phone chipset and you jest jumped at the Intel bribes and the tech sharing deal, didn't you?
Getting kinda chilly out there in the cold now? Having some regrets, any?
Intel has nothing near the price point that works nearly as well as the two year old 28nm RK3288 that ARM gave you to build. But hey, this is the Orient, where bribes and "considerations" are just line items on internal fiscal statements and considered completely ordinary, normal and expected.
..... however, if you take something given to you for free so you can go do a job with it, and then you take some bribes not to go do that job and you still keep the item you were given to do the that original job, well then don't expect the one who gave the item to you for free to trust you with anything else, ever again.