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Old 11-12-2013, 12:29
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I bought a quad core Chinese tablet a few months ago. It was the RK3188 chipset running at 1.6 GHz. It was supposed to be fast and I thought it would run circles around my 2012 Nexus 7. No chance. My Nexus is still more reliable. It could be just badly coded firmware on the Chinese tablet of course. It was a lesson learned!
Thanks for the anecdote. The Guardian also wrote this:
"As you might expect, multitasking is a frustrating experience to say the least on the Lifetab. Trying to update applications in the background slowed the tablet down to a crawl, with missed button taps, hangs and generally irritating sluggish performance."

I'm puzzled at how it manages to be so slow. I believe the rockchip here is a version of ARM A9 Quad 1.6GHz which has rated mips like an old dual core Athlon. It's supposed to have out-of-order execution. Is it starved of memory bandwidth?
I guess the Guardian review makes all who missed the offer feel better.
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Old 11-12-2013, 12:43
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I didn't know about the Lenovo takeover, although their laptops always seem to get good reviews. My last two PCs were Medion ones from Aldi and have been superb, as is the Medion monitor. Perhaps that explains why there haven't been any high-spec Medion PCs in Aldi for a while, which is a shame, because I would have definitely been interested.

I assumed that the Medion tablet would be up to the usual standard (unlike Tevion - which is crap), so although I'm not sure how much use I really have for a tablet I would have been tempted at that price.
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Old 11-12-2013, 12:56
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At the end of the day you are going to get what you pay for really.
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Old 11-12-2013, 13:57
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I guess the Guardian review makes all who missed the offer feel better.
More than likely backs up what a lot of people thought about it to start with.

A cheap tablet like this is never going to be great.

The Hudl and Nook HD+ are the best starting place if someone wants a tablet that's good but still not expensive.
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Old 11-12-2013, 14:59
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Thanks for the anecdote. The Guardian also wrote this:
"As you might expect, multitasking is a frustrating experience to say the least on the Lifetab. Trying to update applications in the background slowed the tablet down to a crawl, with missed button taps, hangs and generally irritating sluggish performance."

I'm puzzled at how it manages to be so slow. I believe the rockchip here is a version of ARM A9 Quad 1.6GHz which has rated mips like an old dual core Athlon. It's supposed to have out-of-order execution. Is it starved of memory bandwidth?
I guess the Guardian review makes all who missed the offer feel better.
What the Guardian describes is exactly the same problem I had! I have since disabled auto sync and auto update and my tablet runs much better. When checking for updates or downloading, it just becomes unusable. It's strange because it gives good scores on Antutu.
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