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The operating system kernel and libraries have been recompiled to run natively on the ARM processor, which means they'll be speedy. The applications, however, are still x86 code, so they get translated from x86 instructions to ARM instructions at the binary layer, on the fly.
For most tasks, this provides reasonable performance; for CPU-intensive tasks it'll be a slowdown. But if these products are successful, the application vendors will recompile for ARM and things will speed up.
In the meantime, these new machines should have awesome battery life, which is their main selling point.
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Umm! Reading this on a Nokia surface running 8.1 rt. Will Microsoft update it to 10? Still having ghost touching problems with this pos. Verizon store was going to give me another one as I could replicate the problem at will. Nokia sold to Microsoft and Microsoft just wouldn’t let Verizon store replace it due to agreement. Sent it in several times and all they did was refresh and sent it back. Ghost touching still an issue.