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Yeah but a 1 GHz N200 yeesh. Everything else looks great.

It's a tablet, not a workstation PC. I have a Surface Go w/ 4GB of memory running Fedora 37 that's plenty fast for what I use it for.

Apparently this also supports hardware accelerated AV1 decoding and h265 encode/decode.

I haven't used one myself but the N200 looks pretty ok for a tablet that's supposed to run a long time on battery. Quad core Skylake-ish cores that turbo to 3.7GHz?

Notebook check says equivalent to a Core i5-8250U. That is not good in 2023.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Processor-N200-CPU-Bench...

It depends on what you're doing. My 4th low power i5 in my laptop and my i3 7100 in my main desktop are just fine for web browsing and development.

Yes, and in this case 6W TDP and cheap enough for a $500 tablet seem like key drivers of the N200's design. Of course the Apple M1 is probably twice as fast at similar cost and power but compared to everything outside Apple the N200 looks pretty decent.

If they make a Ryzen 7040 APU version, I'll take it as my daily driver.

7040 in its lowest TDP configuration is 15W. Intel N200 is 6W. Even accounting for some differences in how both companies measure TDP only one of these can be passively cooled in that sort of form factor.

The lack of low-tdp products on AMD side was also one of the reasons given by pcengines to discontinue their embedded line. AMD's last 6W APU was the 2-core R1102G which is now a couple generations old.

Where did you get 1Ghz from? The N200 has a max clock of 3.7Ghz.

From the Specification section of the website:

> 1.00GHz quad-core Intel Alder Lake N200

> Turbo Boost up to 3.70GHz, with 6MB Smart Cache

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