Compatible
Now I can finally run the same viruses as everyone else
Score another point for Chipzilla in its quest for relevance in the mobile market: Samsung has announced a new, low-cost Chromebook that's powered by an Intel processor. Not that Intel-powered Chromebooks are anything new, really. The very first batch were all based on Atom chips, and in July, Acer even went as far as to …
The screen seems the same. Having just 2GB will save some power. Also it is a dual core Silvermont Atom so it is no surprise it uses slightly less power as you get less CPU/GPU performance than the Exynos variant.
I'm currently eagerly awaiting a Chromebook with the new 20nm 64-bit Exynos octa to replace the Exynos dual Chromebook I use for travelling, benchmarking and GCC development. That should give a 2-4x speedup to large builds and benchmarking runs!
"Still less resolution than my year old 5" mobile phone"
Maybe, just maybe, they'd rather sell people a more expensive more profitable shorter lifetime mobile phone rather than something cheap (and nasty and low margin) that might actually have a working lifetime of more than a year?