I was wondering how an Atom stacks up to the Pentium M Banias CPU. My current laptop has a 1.6gHz Banias at its heart and for me it is still plenty fast for just about everything I do with my laptop.
I've been mulling over the prospect of a nice little netbook with one of the 1.6gHz Atoms in it, and was wondering how performance would compare to my present notebook. I seem to remember Intel originally stating before Atom was released, that their goal with the project was to give it 1st gen Pentium M performance in a low wattage package.
I guess the main things I would be interested in knowing performance for are:
- basic Photo manipulation (resize, compress) using imageMagik from the command line
- LAME mp3 conversion
- archiving performance (.zip, .7z, .rar, etc)
- (edit)and I might as well add Java performance as well
I've been mulling over the prospect of a nice little netbook with one of the 1.6gHz Atoms in it, and was wondering how performance would compare to my present notebook. I seem to remember Intel originally stating before Atom was released, that their goal with the project was to give it 1st gen Pentium M performance in a low wattage package.
I guess the main things I would be interested in knowing performance for are:
- basic Photo manipulation (resize, compress) using imageMagik from the command line
- LAME mp3 conversion
- archiving performance (.zip, .7z, .rar, etc)
- (edit)and I might as well add Java performance as well