Tegra Note vs Atom-based tablet

[IAmAndre]

Hi,

 

I need help choosing between the Gigabyte Tegra Note 7 and the Acer Iconia A1-840. The Acer has many advantages :

 

- more RAM (2 GB vs 1)

- better resolution (1900*1200 vs 1280*800), even though having a lower resolution isn't a problem for me especially for this size of screen

- slightly bigger screen (8" vs 7")

- slightly bigger battery (4600mah vs 4100mah)

 

The pros of the Tegra Note are :

 

- better CPU (see here : http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Nvidia-Tegra-4-vs-Intel-Atom-Z3745 )

- presence of a stylus, which is kind of a big deal for me since I'm going to use it for note taking at college

- the battery life seems to be better despite the smaller battery (10 hours vs 7.5 hours based on the product specs)

 

Both tablets are at the same price so I would like you to help me decide.

 

Thanks

[Aytex]

# of cores does not matter go for the acer since it has all thoes advantages

[IAmAndre]

# of cores does not matter go for the acer since it has all thoes advantages

Thanks for your reply. It's not only about the number of cores though, if you take a look at the Geekbench benchmark you see a score of 4148 vs 2454

[techguru]

Thanks for your reply. It's not only about the number of cores though, if you take a look at the Geekbench benchmark you see a score of 4148 vs 2454

the tegra is better...but not worth it cause of the ram limit

2gb would be the min I would want for a tablet these days..and in the future

[Aytex]

Thanks for your reply. It's not only about the number of cores though, if you take a look at the Geekbench benchmark you see a score of 4148 vs 2454

the screen size gives more power thus a bigger battery if that does not depend than go for the one with the bigger benchmark since you seem to be critique about preformance

[techguru]

might be better to tell us your budget and intended use

[IAmAndre]

might be better to tell us your budget and intended use

OK. At first I wanted a laptop but found out that it wasn't really worth the price, since 2GB of RAM and 16 or 32GB of storage on an Android tablet would provide a much better experience than a PC would with the same specs (which would cost about the same price). I decided that it would be a better investment to buy a tablet now then buy a higher end laptop later (I'm using a gaming desktop atm).

I want to use the tablet for note taking as I said before, web browsing, watching videos, reading books, playing a few Android games (not the most demanding ones), connect a keyboard and write some code and administer Linux servers when I have no choice, and also show demos of the websites/apps I develop to my clients. For note taking and making demos, having a stylus would probably be helpful (for adding notes on an image/PDF for example).

[techguru]

I guess the nexus 9 is outta the budget?