[zantana]

Web browsing is my biggest concern with these lower powered devices. People always blame the browsers, but its really the whole ecosystem, but odds are you're going to need to access some web site on eventually that will just hang the whole thing.

From TFA: Run Firefox half-decently with a few dozen tabs that aren’t full of bloat (ie, not Medium, Reddit, or mainstream news sites)

I have an old 64 Bit Quad Core Baytrail-T Z3795 1.59GHz tablet which just freezes on Twitter unless I disable videos.

Can these socs do any better?

[alpanka]

The sad fact is that SOCs are getting better and better every day, but front-end developers manage to raise the requirement for a smooth browsing experience at a faster speed.

[rasz]

Its Chrome codebase. Same websites on now ancient Opera Presto (12) flew at 1/10 the resource usage (not an exaggeration, you could open 100 tabs and still fit in 1GB ram usage).

We are paying for abstraction layers added to smooth web development.