[PCWorld] Intel kills the Atom line

[MarkizSchnitzel]

True, some want fanless.

But is that worth paying the identical price as 15W Core ix chips that perform noticeably better? Same form factor, same price, same power use, but fanless.

define noticeably?

NBC has the m3 SP4 at ~80% of i5 in the benchmarks they performed. As a casual user, who only does light coding (learning to do it actually, and as a hobby at that), that is definitely not noticeable.

Even if it were 1/3, i'd be OK with that, as long as i can't hear a fan when drinking my coffee in the quiet morning on the countryside.

So I doubt most people would feel the same, especially here, but there is market.