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Windows RT is not yet optimized for Tegra 3 chips

0. phoneArena posted on 28 Nov 2012, 03:44

The Tegra 3 SoC by NVIDIA can be found under the hood of many Android smartphones and tablets. Even a video game console – the Ouya, which got Kickstarted not long ago, is powered by this potent quad-core piece of silicon. Microsoft also chose a Tegra 3 chip to be the heart and brains of its Windows RT Surface tablet. However, it looks like the Microsoft Surface is just not making the most of the Tegra 3 processor it is equipped with, and the device's hardware is not to blame...

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1. MeoCao (unregistered) posted on 28 Nov 2012, 03:53 1 1

Well, that's MS

2. Thephonegeek posted on 28 Nov 2012, 04:25 6

First of all Microsoft Surface RT is less powerful than it's main rivals, then this issue. Microsoft it's just not getting it. They had so much time to develop Windows RT but they are still lagging behind.

3. drahmad posted on 28 Nov 2012, 04:36 1

let me make correction to your statement "surface RT is slow because it is not fully optimized for tegra 3, when it will be fully optimized, it will work faster"

5. MeoCao (unregistered) posted on 28 Nov 2012, 05:00 2 1

MS will have big troubles as they don't allow OEMs to modify the OS, for PC that's OK b-c they have monopoly. But in mobile when your OS is not optimized you just can't compete.

8. drahmad posted on 28 Nov 2012, 06:08 1

i do not think so. windows phone is spreading its claws.... android is going fast but wp is going up, too.

9. JKING_25 posted on 28 Nov 2012, 06:44 1

Let me make the correction to your statement. Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company, the surface should have been optimized for windows rt out of the box. There is no excuse for that. I hope the surface pro comes out soon with less problems.

11. drahmad posted on 28 Nov 2012, 06:54

here is your answer :p
http://wmpoweruser.com/microsofts-new-mentality-release-the-product-instead-of-perfecting-it/

12. RobotMan posted on 28 Nov 2012, 07:10 2

It only confirm WP beta tester status.

4. ogy_dogy posted on 28 Nov 2012, 04:56 1

Well, i was always an ati-amd fan anyways :-P

10. JKING_25 posted on 28 Nov 2012, 06:52 1

Worrrdddd uppppp. LOL me too! I wish we could have gotten that in the Surface Tablet. I hope they consider ATI for the Surface 2.

14. ogy_dogy posted on 28 Nov 2012, 08:11 1

Well word is amd is going mobile very soon, so lets just wait and see.

6. jove39 posted on 28 Nov 2012, 05:18

So there will be another major update coming for W8RT, just like WP8 :)

7. MC1123 posted on 28 Nov 2012, 05:40 3

hoping to see surface HD RT or surface 2 RT with a la retina display and with tegra 4(cortex a15...but hoping that new cortex a57!!!) that would be the best tablet PC ever!

13. drahmad posted on 28 Nov 2012, 08:04

absolutely. me too

16. MC1123 posted on 28 Nov 2012, 19:22

that would kill android tablet! even though they dont have that big share!

15. 7thspaceman posted on 28 Nov 2012, 10:37

this is information is just what I expected was the cause of the reports I read about the
Microsoft Surface being slow and laggy. The Windows RT OS for tablet computer's is
Microsoft's first try at an OS using Arms chip's on a tablet. it took Google's Android
programmers awhile to get to Ice cream sandwich and Jelly bean Android updates to get Android Tablet computers to run smoothly. Microsoft Tablet computer Programmers are now cutting their teeth learning to deal with ARMS CPU chipsets. The 2013 Surface RT will probably run very smoothly but current Surface RT Tablet Computers will get update after updates in their software till Microsoft programmers get it right. Microsoft has just announced that they would support their surface RT computers for 4 years this means that People who have already bought a Surface RT computers over time will get the updates to make it run more smoothly and will get lots of new apps because developers now know that the Microsoft RT computers will be around for years to come making it worth their efforts to make Apps for Surface RT tablet computers and Microsoft OEM partners Window RT Tablet computers.

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