TomTom ONE CPU speed

plipplop · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 05, 2005 Posts: 4

If you remove the SD card and press and hold the power button you get a screen full of interesting information. One is CPU speed and it says 288Mhz but all the reviews, specs, etc state a 380Mhz cpu speed,

Which is correct and are the manufacturers deliberately trying to deceive?

Flashyphotos · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject:

Just a thought,

Maybe its a load sensitive CPU, to save battery power many PDA CPUs step the speed depending on the workload to save battery power,

As the One is under no load when the Bios screen is brought up, maybe the CPU is in power saving mode?.

Richard

Frazz · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:33 am Post subject:

Since you can do nothing to upgrade the speed of the processor and it does what it says on the box - does it matter??

Frazz

Unplugged · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:

If you brought a 3GHZ P4 pc from Pc World and you got it back and it was an 800 Duron would you just say "Oh well it witches on and loads into windows what else do you want" would you not feel a bit miffed?

Frazz · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject:

Well it's not quite the same is it? Processor speed on a PC will affect its ability to run certain applications efficiently, but what difference would you expect to see on a TomTom One running at 380MHz rather than 288MHz. The aim of this device is to plan a route, get you from A to B and update the maps in near real time as you go along which it does. Maybe a future model will need a faster processor to cope with more knobs and whistles but present it does what it says on the box and you've got no choice in processor speed for it; so as I said - does it matter?

Perhaps it's because I use Macs that I'm less hung up about processor speeds Wink

Frazz

Darren · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject:

TomTom have advised the following in respect of the reported processor speed on the ONE and RIDER devices:

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