Samsung ATIV Smart PC: Revisiting Clover Trail Convertibles
by Vivek Gowri on March 18, 2013 12:00 AM ESTSamsung ATIV Smart PC: Battery Life
The battery life this platform offers is fantastic. The 31Wh battery gives over 10 hours of runtime in our internet browsing test, which is in the same ballpark as the Tegra 3 Windows RT tablets, but also better than the iPad from a power efficiency standpoint. It’s worth noting that the iPad has a much higher resolution display that results in a significantly higher power draw, but offers almost the same 10 hour battery life with a much larger 42.5 Wh battery.
I do wish that the notebook dock contained a second battery, though. The ASUS VivoTab with the dock has 55Wh of combined battery capacity (30Wh in the tablet, 25Wh in the dock) and is rated to have 19 hours of total battery life. If you get even 75% of that in real world use, you’re still looking at a Windows 8 system with nearly 15 hours of battery runtime, which is incredibly valuable. The lack of a secondary dock has a bigger impact in the Ivy Bridge-based ATIV Smart PC Pro than it does here, because the Pro has relatively mediocre battery life (I’ll get to that in the 700T review) and could really use another couple of dozen watt-hours. Even without the second battery, the 500T still has excellent battery life, but it’s a bit of a missed opportunity to be sure.
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beginner99 - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - link
Suspected that but makes the whole benchmark even more flawed it is in the first place. It doesn't even mention the browser used, at least not easily visible. I assume it was IE then considering the crappy performance.Kidster3001 - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - link
Kraken ( and Sunspider ) are not CPU or even system benchmarks. They are Browser benchmarks only. Clovertrail and Clovertrial+ scale perfectly with frequency as compared to Medfield when they use the same browser.kyuu - Monday, March 18, 2013 - link
Hope a review of the Vizio Tablet PC with the AMD C-60 is incoming soon!kyuu - Monday, March 18, 2013 - link
Er, Z-60.nikon133 - Monday, March 18, 2013 - link
What about Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2? I think proper docking station option (with LAN, external screen and a few USB ports) makes it really interesting among Clover Trail tablets, but it is not being mentioned here at all. Is it available in US?hughtwg - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - link
Yes, it's available in the US. Mine is on Ebay at the moment.I think docking the tablet directly to a keyboard like the Ativ, or Envy X2 is much more practical than a dock like that provided by the TPT2 since the keboards have essentially the same ports as the non mobile dock for the TPT2. I bought the TPT2 for the stylus support but found it rather disappointing due to a combination Windows 8 and Lenovo issues.
sprockkets - Monday, March 18, 2013 - link
Still no Nexus 10 review...A.J. - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - link
Pls try using the same Google Chrome/MS IE10 in Octane or Kraken javascript benchmark test!It's totally ridiculous to have the javascript benchmark score with different browsers. Am I looking at a browser test?
with Chrome25:
I got 2580 on Octane bench,
about ~900ms in Sunspider,
and ~12000ms in Mozilla Kraken.
Intel Clover Trail Atom is way better than old cortexA9! Even close to cortexA15 in some cases.
And with the remarkable 1.7W TDP, it totally smashes the A15 in efficiency!
Curious to see 22nm BayTrail quad-core Atom vs Tegra4.
paulbram - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - link
Although in general I agree it is not fair to compare different browsers, I think you also need to remember that Chrome on a Windows 8 CT chip is really not NEARLY as good as IE10 is. In fact, I've been incredibly impressed with IE10 perf on mine. So, sure you could run Chrome if you want to see poor benchmark results, but why not give the machine the best chance at success?Kidster3001 - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - link
Javascript benchmarks are "Browser" benchmarks, not CPU benchmarks. They are completely dependent on the javascript engine used in the browser.