Testing
After doing some research we did find some benchmarking apps for the tablet. They include Quadrant Standard, AnTuTu Benchmark and Linpack for Android.
Quadrant is a CPU, I/O and 3D graphics benchmark.
AnTuTu Benchmark tests Memory Performance, CPU Integer Performance, CPU Floating point Performance, 2D 3D Graphics Performance, SD card reading/writing speed and Database IO performance.
The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power. Introduced by Jack Dongarra, they measure how fast a computer solves a dense N by N system of linear equations Ax = b, which is a common task in engineering. The solution is obtained by Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting, with 2/3*N3 + 2*N2 floating point operations. The result is reported in Millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second (MFLOP/s, sometimes simply called FLOPS).
This test is more a reflection of the state of the Android Dalvik Virtual Machine than of the floating point performance of the underlying processor. Software written for an Android device is written using Java code that the Dalvik VM interprets at run time.
For those of you that are not aware, the manual is located in the HELP section of the tablet
Externally the Le Pan looks nice but I technical support is no existing and difficult to contact.
Do yourself a favor, do not buy the old version of the LePan Tablet. I had one and would freeze quite often. Spend the extra $70 and get a LePan II. Much more powerful and enjoyable. You will not regret it.
amazon.ca:
Le Pan original: 48 one or two star reviews out of 272 total reviews or 17.6%
Le Pan II: 11one or two star reviews out of 36 total reviews, which is 30.6%
I’d say that both are pretty unreliable, but according to the numbers, the original actually seems more reliable than the newer version.
Le Pan: http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/B004PGMFG2/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Le Pan newer version: http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/B0067XX3AI/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
However, as amazon has great customer service and refund/exchange policies, this may not be that much of an issue.
Update on my purchase of the LePan 2 Tablet. After having used the LePan 2 Tablet for about a week, I decided to return it for a full refund. In order to make this tablet to download videos from various TV channels, ABC, CBS, CBC, NBC, MSNBC, you need to have a very strong wifi system at home. While the Tablet performed very good when I had it at work, since the workplace is very much super wired for wifi, and had no problem downloading various TV shows from different TV stations, the same was not true when I was trying to do the same at my place. I have wifi at home at about 3 to 6 mbps, and yet it was not powerful enough to download various videos. I think, I will stick to my laptops. I have 3 of them at home and never had any problem downloading anything. No more Tablets for me.