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I have a feeling those sticks wouldn't stand up as well to the sort of load this use case would require of them.

I suspect the latest smartphone SoCs would be as powerful as a Chromebook.

Bay Trail is about the same speed as Core 2 Duo or 1st gen Phenom. I assume Snapdragon 800, Mediatek MT6595 and new A57 chips are there as well, or even better. Soon we should start seeing chips approaching the speed of i3 on smartphone SoCs.

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