Advent Android tablets set to hit the Dixons Group stores shortly

[Guest captainsensible]

So how many people are sat hitting F5 on the Currys/Dixons/PC World websites, you know, just in case they really do come back in stock today? B)

[Guest hullmackem]

So how many people are sat hitting F5 on the Currys/Dixons/PC World websites, you know, just in case they really do come back in stock today? B)

That'll be me !

[Guest shutdown]

i'm doing CMD+R on my mac. I assigned F5 to an apple script for video conversion in Final Cut Pro B)

[Guest rferrett]

Alas for me I am out and about in meetings so will probably m B) iss out again.

[Guest ricwales1]

same here stuck out and about and dunno if anyone will be home when they try delivery ... damn it.

[Guest redmongoose]

Woo!

:)

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Going on your luck with delivery drivers it may not be..... B)

[Guest Paul]

True, lol...

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[Guest alfe]

come on guys more pictures and feedback please... video would be good!

[Guest MarkoUK]

come on guys more pictures and feedback please... video would be good!

Not in here though.

You need to go here: http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...s/#entry1484843

[Guest Nanu*1]

Well I've just had 2 delivered it seems Dixons didn't cancel my first order......

:-D

[Guest dab12]

My tracking has not updated today

Arrived At Depot 23/11/10 01:12 MANCHESTER TERMINAL

[Guest hullmackem]

Well I've just had 2 delivered it seems Dixons didn't cancel my first order......

:-D

i'll have one :-D

[Guest captainsensible]

Well I've just had 2 delivered it seems Dixons didn't cancel my first order......

:-D

How much do you want for it???? B)

[Guest Nanu*1]

How much do you want for it???? B)

I was going to put it on eBay with a BIN of £350! :-D

[Guest mclanecxantia]

I was going to put it on eBay with a BIN of £350! :-D

very funny...

how is the display doing ?

is it as weak as the toshiba folio or the wetab ??

can anybody of you having the advent vega do a chess-benchmark ?

we could get very important information how fast the CPU is in relation to other

hardware or other operating systems because this chess program runs

under windows and under ipad and mobile phones etc.

download droidfish for free at:

http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/

change the file name from *.apk.bin into *.apk as told on the website.

put it on the pad and install it by starting the *.apk file in a browser/explorer such as astro.

go into game mode and setup analysis. go back to the chess board and

wait arround 2' and report the value behind NPS:

to give you reference values:

on my android 2.2 HTC HD2 droidfish runs ~100.000 NPS.

on my APAD rockchip 600 mhz android 1.5 it is doing ~10.000 NPS.

on my windows PC with Intel T7600 2x 2.33 Ghz running 1 core, the engine

stockfish (thats the engine in droidfish) is doing ~1.000.000 NPS !

i have also results for Palm Pre under Webos (500 or 1 GHz speed) if you

are interested.

The clue about this chess program is, that it is available for free for several

hardware/software/operating-system combinations.

so we can really relate the different NPS values.

please give me the nps-values from the advent vega !

thanks.

here you can see a picture of the chess program in analysis mode and the NPS values

we need as benchmark when the program runs 2 minutes.

NPS means "nodes per second" and is the amount of positions the computer

generates/evaluates in one second. we wait 2 minutes to get a stable value

(the value changes much in the first seconds...).

the higher the NPS value, the faster the CPU is.

this is a NON graphical benchmark. it really shows how fast the CPU and the

memory is doing.

we can relate the NPS of the engine running on a pc, on mobiles,

on the ipad, on archos101, on other tablet-pcs by doing this

benchmark. and... as a side effect, you have a nice chess program

for your pad installed :-)

Edited November 23, 2010 by mclanecxantia

[Guest JCB_Digger]

can anybody of you having the advent vega do a chess-benchmark ?

we could get very important information how fast the CPU is in relation to other

hardware or other operating systems because this chess program runs

under windows and under ipad and mobile phones etc.

download droidfish for free at:

http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/

I used the version from the Android market on my Samsung Galaxy Tab, and after a couple of minutes the figure's around 108,500 NPS (though after running DroCap in the background, this seems to drop a little to 106k NPS, see attached file)

Any use to you?

Edited November 23, 2010 by JCB_Digger

[Guest ricwales1]

it been delivered but stuck in work ... ahhhh.

oh well gives you guys time to sort out any issue B)

[Guest TylerDurdenK]

download droidfish for free at:

http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/

change the file name from *.apk.bin into *.apk as told on the website.

put it on the pad and install it by starting the *.apk file in a browser/explorer such as astro.

go into game mode and setup analysis. go back to the chess board and

wait arround 2' and report the value behind NPS:

I'm getting value of around 131700.

[Guest ricwales1]

for peeps not checking all vega threads....

v1.02 Now available at http://www.myadventvega.co.uk/

[Guest whatkatedoes]

Gah! All excited now! No glaring "ITS AWFUL" comments or "CAN ONLY SEE SCREEN FROM AN ANGLE OF 45.17degrees!"

So. When more stock be there?

[Guest ricwales1]

reports of more stock today or this week all you can do is keep trying

[Guest mclanecxantia]

I'm getting value of around 131700.

was this number on the advent vega (tegra2) pad ???

can you confirm ?

if this is true we would have the following overview:

1. 
   droidfish aka stockfish on:
   
   Palm Pre 500mhz (Webos1.4.5): ~8.000 NPS
   APAD Rockchip 600mhz (android1.5): ~10.000 NPS
   Palm Pre oc. 800mhz (Webos1.4.5): ~13.000 NPS
   ZT-180 10,2" Pad : ~15.345 NPS
   Palm Pre oc. 1Ghz (Webos1.4.5): ~16.000 NPS
   Iphone4 1 Ghz: ~75.000 NPS
   HTC HD2 with 1Ghz (android2.2): ~100.000 NPS
   Samsung Galaxy Tab ~108,500 NPS
   Advent vega tegra2 1Ghz (android2.2): ~131.700 NPS
   
   Laptop T7600 2.2Ghz 1 core, windows: 1.000.000 NPS
   

Edited November 23, 2010 by mclanecxantia

[Guest Matchstick]

was this number on the advent vega (tegra2) pad ???

can you confirm ?

if this is true we would have the following overview:

1. 
   droidfish aka stockfish on:
   
   Palm Pre 500mhz (Webos1.4.5): ~8.000 NPS
   APAD Rockchip 600mhz (android1.5): ~10.000 NPS
   Palm Pre oc. 800mhz (Webos1.4.5): ~13.000 NPS
   ZT-180 10,2" Pad : ~15.345 NPS
   Palm Pre oc. 1Ghz (Webos1.4.5): ~16.000 NPS
   Iphone4 1 Ghz: ~75.000 NPS
   HTC HD2 with 1Ghz (android2.2): ~100.000 NPS
   Samsung Galaxy Tab ~108,500 NPS
   Advent vega tegra2 1Ghz (android2.2): ~131.700 NPS
   
   Laptop T7600 2.2Ghz 1 core, windows: 1.000.000 NPS
   

If the app you're testing with is multithreaded and able to take full advantage of the two cores on the Vege that number looks plausible.

[Guest alfe]

countdown is on to 4pm...

[Guest Paul]

Huh? What's happening at 4pm?

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