However, it's a little slower than the 17 - minute and 51 -
second tablet category average, because the average includes Core series - powered tablets like the Surface Pro.
It took the Nabi XD 21 seconds to load «N.O.V.A. 3,» which is a bit slower than the 17 -
second tablet category average, but faster than the Excite Pure's load time of 25 seconds.
Not exact matches
This also makes the Touchmate
tablet the world's first 3D
tablet in the 8 inch
category, though the Touchmate is only the
second device in the world to offer 3D display (the first being the LG G - Slate that came with an 8.9 inch sized screen).
That crushes the
tablet category average of 22 MBps as well as the ultraportable average of 83
seconds.
The Snapdragon S4 Pro-powered Nexus 7 took 17
seconds, the same as the
tablet category average, while the 1.5 - GHz quad - core Exynos 4212 - powered Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 took just 14
seconds.
Both, slates however, were slower than the
tablet category average of 20
seconds.
The Samsung
tablet will also be the
second choice in the 10 inch
category for students to consider, the other being the Transformer Pad.
It took Dell's
tablet 20
seconds to load the alien shooter «N.O.V.A. 3,» which is a bit slower than the 17 -
second category average.
The
tablet completed our File Transfer Test (duplicating 4.97 GB of multimedia files) in 34
seconds, for a transfer rate of 150 Mbps — much faster than the 63 Mbps
category average.
In another sign that
tablets are likely to be one of the hottest
categories at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, CNET's
second annual holiday survey found that iPads top consumer wish lists.
When we ran the LAPTOP Spreadsheet Macro Test, which matches 20,000 names with their addresses, the
tablet took 30 minutes and 17
seconds to complete the task, nearly double the
category average (17 minutes and 16
seconds) but on a par with its competitors.
HP's
tablet took just 5 minutes and 55
seconds to transcode a short video using Vidtrim, which is almost a minute faster than the
category average (6:40) but quite a bit slower than the Venue 8 7000 (5:01) and the Exynos 5 - powered Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 (4:48).
The
second Archos
tablet we saw at CES, the Archos 80 Titanium, falls more into the budget
tablet category.
The
tablet booted Windows 8 in just 13
seconds, quicker than the HP Envy x2's 22
seconds, the
category average (20
seconds) and the ASUS» 18
seconds.
The device took 11 minutes and 6
seconds to transcode a 230 MB 1080p video to 480p using Vidtrim, beating the
tablet category average of 11:31.
However, when we played «World of Warcraft» at default settings, the
tablet managed an unplayable 19 frames per
second, well below the 28 fps
category average.
You won't be able to play 3D games on this
tablet, given that it returned no more than 5 frames per
second on the Heaven and Valley gaming tests, but that's typical for the
category.
For all the CES hoopla, the biggest
tablet news won't come until late January, when Apple is expected to unveil the
second - generation iPad, the product to beat in this developing
category.