Originally Posted by Voynich:
“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!”
“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.



