Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
@ Jim
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Now that i think about it, the "you get what you pay for" line makes even less sense. I paid $19 for my Quicksilver and $75 for my 1.42 GHz FW800. Both were worth more in my opinion. If you search around, sometimes you get a lot more then you paid for.
The statement was made in reference to the purchase of brand new electronics products. Pointing out exceptions such as second-hand sales between individuals or special discounts after a product has reached the end of its life does little to disprove the rule.
I am certain it is fair to say that the majority of visitors of this website value quality software much more than raw processing power or hardware feature lists. Since you are a frequent poster, it is surprising to me that you consider Cortex A8-based ARM hardware options to be too slow, yet you buy even slower hardware from manufacturers who spend very few resources on software development and testing and represent opposite values regarding the priority of software and hardware when you compare them with MorphOS.
I suppose the mystery of consumer behaviour continues...
@ minator
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Most of the low end has now been taken over by the Allwinner A10, it's got a Cortex A8 and a Mali-400 GPU. It's just ahead of the first iPad CPU wise but surprisingly good given the price they go for (do a search on eBay). There's a whole bunch of companies targeting this end of the market so expect to get even more for your (little) money soon.
I am familiar with the Allwinner A10. I did not mean to say that you cannot get reasonably good processing power at bargain prices. I was trying to point out that by going for the very lowest prices you end up buying from manufacturers that deliberately do not spend much on the software side which has strong implications for the overall consumer experience.
I have seen quite a few entry-level tablets with horrible Android ports that were good at little else but giving Android a bad name.
