hold on, by dedicated, do you mean like offloading all sound to the hardware? you'd be correct in that if that's what you mean, the chipset still processes some of the stuff though. The real problem is the shitty drivers they write sometimes.

to put it into the smallest case/formfactor possible without risking a rrod/ylod ...

The clock of the CPU in my phone is more than that. 1.2 GHz looks pretty low, don't think that this rumor is true. 2 GHz at least would be more credible.

Well I suppose that's fair enough

It's not as efficient as ARM on power, and it's actually faster for gaming.(better memory handling being one part of it)

No, since the drams are specified at 800MHz, I'd have guessed a processor clock of 1600MHz to keep things simple. If they use a weird 1.2xxGHZ clock, then probably the dram is only clocked at half that, not 800MHz (would be easy to measure, actually).

that's what I figured too, but my guess is that's a base setting, it could be just in some kind of power saving mode by default at maybe 32 Watts or so, they might be able to clock it higher on more intensive games to 1.6GHz and possibly clock the GPU higher too, would be interesting if they can get homebrew running on the actual Wii U part and see what kind of OC they can do on it before meltdown to get a good idea of it.

Region free WiiU isn't that far-fetched now!
And dreams of proper BC with Gamepad ~

I would say known as marcan, but use his real name if you like.

People here aren't that stupid...can't be.

Edited.Thanks.