Good news.

The next following android updates are gonna be major ones. Much of the lag these devices experience come from the acclaimed perception that they use cheap internal eMMC flash drives. Boy i thought that was the case.

The transformer prime for example has for the longest time been a very strong device with an achilles heel. That is whenever you wrote data randomly onto the device(which Operating systems need on a continual basis-such as market place app) it would severly lag.

I tested androwook's latest kernel and OS "hairy bean 1.4" and the random writes soared through the roof. superseeding even the nexus 7.

Just you wait guys. the nexus 7 and pretty much all devices will be recieving a major update that'll boost their flash drive performance. I think much of the delay has to do with the very nature of androids fragmentation in the market. Very few devices were released with ice cream sandwich and subsequently jelly bean and google must have taken notice that not many vendors were updating to the latest and greatest(I feel sad for those who are stuck on doughnut and gingerbread)

I will be posting some comparative benchmarks soon from both apps "RL benchmark" and "Androbench".

The fox does not lie about these things

kristoff wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:39 pm Dunno about the Kindle, but I downloaded a book from Amazon. Can't copy it to a disk, can't copy it from my PC to my laptop, can't print it. I bought it, I own the rights to my copy, they are denying them. Last Kindle book I will buy.

On a very few occasions, it has suited my purposes to glom a Kindle book. I have no difficulty printing excerpts for research purposes, and were I willing to invest the time, could readily, using a run-of-the-mill PC (not politically correct, though) computer, generate a printed copy from the Kindle version. How to do that I presume will be obvious to anyone who chooses to do that, so I shall not here specify the trivial, albeit tedious, method. It came with the Windows(tm) operating system, though, as a standard feature.

BossTamsin (imported) wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:34 am Right, if you're buying the book from Amazon, you can read it on any device which will run their Kindle software.

If you're 'acquiring' the book, you're on your own to get it from device to device.

Krister, you may not be able to print it, but I do believe you can back it up. Not via 'official' channels though.

I am using a "desktop" computer now. However, if I start up a notebook computer that also has Kindle for PC, I automatically get a backup there.

I got an IRiver (at least I think it is called that) about a year ago, but have never been able to get e-books transferred over to it (I'm stuck with just the four books that came with it and have only read Alice In Wonderland ). Perhaps I just didn't try hard enough, but does anyone know much about them? I had my own e-book on my laptop and still couldn't transfer it over

OK I'm late posting the results but i'm having a hard time linking the androbench results

transformer prime yields a 17 sec sqlite 3 benchmark on "RL Bench" and a 247MB/sec or 56519 IOPS(4K)/sec on avg compared to 5047MB/sec on the nexus 7 16gb devices. (Again random writes)

Seems too good to be true but I assure you I'm not fibbing on this one

It's really all in the software. Go cutsom rom and never look back; You lose the warranty though P

The nexus 7 will get this fix soon btw furthermore you can always overclock that tiny tablet up to 2GHz. P

(1.8Ghz is the sweet spot)

here's the official Androwook benchmarks. hehe just look how this pimped out tf201 shits over the tf700t thanks to the androwook hairy bean rom 1.4 + clemsyns 1.8ghz kernel

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9310989/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9311002/

NB = lesson-screw tthe warranty, screw stock roms and ask for help at xda developers

go custom and never look back muhahahaha

Also got a lower random write than posted above. I have soo many programs installed right now as opposed to before

Rule of thumb: Determine exactly what your needs are, what you intend to use the product for, and make sure it will fill that need.

Everything else is peripheral.

You can spend a lot of time analyzing test results, but if they do not apply to your needs, you will be disappointed with the product.

You are so right, I do think I have made my decision and its based on how I intend on using the tablet, I only have a couple tests to make but for the most part the decision has been made. So sometime early January I will purchase my new toy.

River

I would like to throw another tablet into the mix. Samsung just came out with a 10" Note tablet I'm trying out - like I need another tablet. I'm really impressed with it so far. It's seems super fast, and has a pen you can use on the screen. I haven't used the pen yet, but it may be quite useful, if what I've seen so far, demonstrations, etc., is any indication.