Today's best-performing tablets

November 15, 2012

Performance is only one of many points we consider when we review tablets, but performance affects your overall impression of the tablet—how zippy and responsive it is when you use apps, navigate the operating system, and surf the Web. On top of that, if your tablet's battery fails to deliver long life, you'll find yourself tethered to an outlet more often than you'd like. Not all of our benchmark tests are available across all operating systems, but we do have a few that run on Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows RT. We put two dozen of the latest tablets—regardless of screen size—to the benchmark test to see how they compare. We tested all the tablets with the most recent firmware and operating system updates available at the time of testing; such updates can and do affect performance results. When a tablet had more than one Web browser or video player installed, we used the native apps. Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Overall, as you'll see in the charts below, we discovered that Nvidia Tegra 3-based Android tablets are among some of the best performers out there, but Samsung's Exynos processor—found in the Google Nexus 10 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1—came on strong. As in the past, we also noticed variations in performance stemming from the different processor speeds, system memory, and operating systems in play. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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