How much power is in a Netbook anyway?

[Glob]

Let's put it this way: my Wind U100 has a tough time with full screen Hulu videos at 320p, but it's semi-watchable. It also struggles with scrolling up and down webpages at times. I've even upgraded the memory to 2GB and use the 24% overclocking feature.

Edit: forgot to mention, I feel this is mostly an issue with Flash.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: IlllI

Originally posted by: xSauronx

this is anandtech people, anand himself, iirc, did a review in the last two months of the dual core atoms and benched it against older processors *sigh*

this? http://anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?b=2

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3321

its a dual core atom, but (im not going to review the article again right now) i think he compares *that* to the single core atom (dual core, obviously, is better at some things) somewhere in the article, at least on a few things.

 

[EJ257]

AFAIK the Atom is architecturally similar to a P3 with SSE2/SSE3 and HT added plus faster FSB and shrink to 45nm. Clock for clock it should be comparable with a P3.

BTW does anyone know of a CPU history road map of Intel, AMD, IBM...etc all on a single poster for side by side comparison? (including all the branches, long live or not...)

 

[IntelUser2000]

Originally posted by: hans007

thats probably inaccurate.


the 1.6 atom i'd say having owned a few of them, is roughly a 900mhz pentium M for many things. I actually have an atom 1.6 xpc shuttle box, and a 1.1 ghz p3 /100 bus emachines running side by side right now, and the atom just barely edges out the 1.1 p3 i'd say.


I think basically the fastest netbook you can get right now is the $399 gateway one with the 1.2 ghz athlon. That would be the netbook to buy, but it has slightly less battery life.

This. Though HT will allow it to edge out the 900MHz Pentium M, single thread is too important to mention the HT-enabled performance.