Motorola's Xoom Family Edition Review: Not Just For The Kids
Benchmark Results: Real-World
Early on, we discovered how difficult it is to benchmark tablets.
Benchmarking responsiveness with a camera is the easiest approach. Of course, normal cameras don't cut it, since they don't shoot at high-enough frame rates. Going the stopwatch route is no better, due to human-introduced errors. As a result, we're using a 1000 FPS high-speed camera to measure performance. Since one frame equals one millisecond, it’s possible to measure timing with a high degree of accuracy.
Our benchmark captures total performance. Even when dealing with the same CPU, the display panel can influence this test because we also taking response times into account.
Input lag is the time it takes from pressing a key to text appearing on the screen. This tells you how fast a tablet is registering an action. Ideally, you want low input lag so that you don't feel like the tablet is stuttering as you type or click buttons.
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onanonanon tranfire@tanjo it has micro SDYeah, but for me, one of the best uses of a tablet would be to view photos from a digital camera and yet very few models support an SD or SDHC card.Reply -
cknobman Sorry but regardless of price after seeing just how piss poor the screen is (most notably extreme light bleed) and how long the charge times are I dont think the low price justifies its shortcomings.Reply
Heck its not uncommon to get a Transformer or A500 for $299-$349 these days which blow this tablet out of the water. -
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1. The Transformer also has light bleed.9523631 said:Sorry but regardless of price after seeing just how piss poor the screen is (most notably extreme light bleed) and how long the charge times are I dont think the low price justifies its shortcomings.
Heck its not uncommon to get a Transformer or A500 for $299-$349 these days which blow this tablet out of the water.
2. The 299 price is because of black Friday, cyber Monday, and holiday sales. It's definitely not "normal" -
pyrrocc Grrr... can't do standard inequality of angled brackets....Reply
FYI, on the front-face cam, 1.3MP does not equal 640x480... Heck 1200x900 (4:3) = ~1MP -
slabbo A500 can be found in practically every Costco I've been in, and for $319 including a leather case.Reply -
The size specs on the Xoom and Xoom Family are not correct. Xoom Family is longer AND wider, not the other way around.Reply