The A9X chip is definitely impressive and it's good to see someone posting something positive about Apple's products on these forums for a change. I'm using my notebook and iPad Air 1 mostly for writing and I'm curious if we'll soon be at a point where I can trade both of those devices in for an iPad Pro / MS Surface like machine.
As for performance: I'd be great if Nintendo went the powerful + cheap route for their consoles and handhelds but I don't see it happening. I checked the generational leaps starting with Gameboy Advance and Gamecube and with the exception of the original Wii, the performance of every Nintendo platform followed Moore's Law. If they continue to do this we'll get something like this:
Handheld: 4x 1GHz CPU + 1GB RAM
Console: 8x 1.8GHz CPU + 8GB RAM (GPU between XB1 and PS4 in power)
I know this is not the most accurate research by a long shot but basically this puts handheld NX at roughly PS Vita level performance (with a 480p screen most likely) and the home console should be equal to PS4 and X1 in power. I think this is a likely scenario, as long as they can easily down- or upgrade games to run on both machines. The handheld will of course need less horsepower to run a game at 480p. But hey, just speculation on my part here.
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