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It would be nice to have UnixBench scores in your comparison table. I'm guessing the SoC in the reform won't be in the same league as current Intel laptop processors, but it would be nice to have some idea of what we're getting.

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I'd also be curious about approximate battery life. Personally, I'd rather a decent ARM SoC and longer battery life than a beefy x86 CPU that's going to drain the battery in two hours.

OK, I’ll look into that. Is that a good benchmark? Are there other meaningful ones?

What I like about UnixBench is that it covers I/O as well as raw CPU performance. (So you'd want to make sure it uses the SSD, not the SD card.) And it's open source (edit: actually checked the license now; looks like it's GPL2).

I'll let others weigh in with other benchmark suggestions.

UnixBench would be great. I have a bash script that runs several benchmarks and create a website: https://github.com/Cyclenerd/benchmark

You would have to remove Geekbench from Line 650 in the source code. Does not work with ARM.

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