Whats the point of dual core Netbooks?

[JEDI]

i thought the purpose of netbooks was ultra portability.

you sacrifice performance to maintain a 3hr battery life.
thus it's limited to web surfing, and basic word/excel/powerpoint.

whats the point of having Dual-Atom or Dual celeron in Netbooks?

 

[theevilsharpie]

People want laptop functionality at a netbook price.

/thread

 

[slugg]

Also, as software becomes more and more parallel, it's actually more power efficient to have multiple cores. We're not quite there yet, but things are moving in that direction.

 

[Rottie]

I want more power and high performance out of netbook will dual core atom save me?

 

[shabby]

I want more power and high performance out of netbook will dual core atom save me?

Skip the atom, go with a dual core culv.

 

[MJinZ]

I just want a 2.0ghz Atom that will Hulu @ 30FPS. Mine can Hulu at around 20FPS, but it would be nicer for liquid smoothness.

 

[Aluvus]

Performance is substantially better (especially for Atom, which is in-order), and the difference in power usage is very minimal. Basically you give up nothing, and get better performance. I don't see how you could argue against this.

 

[MJinZ]

Performance is substantially better (especially for Atom, which is in-order), and the difference in power usage is very minimal. Basically you give up nothing, and get better performance. I don't see how you could argue against this.

Currently, the only dual core Atom gives up like 10 hours of battery life, so no............

 

[corkyg]

All consumers want more for less. It's called responding to the market.

 

[Bl0cks]

1st off: Dual core for e-peen
2nd: HD playback

 

[Hacp]

Um.. wtf are you smoking? I get 5 hours of blife with my 2.4ghz core 2.

 

[beginner99]

Um.. wtf are you smoking? I get 5 hours of blife with my 2.4ghz core 2.

but your battery is probably heavier than a whole netbook.

 

[bhanson]

I'd imagine eventually all "netbooks" will have multi-core processors in the future. In fact, I'd imagine once technology advances far enough where that any computer you buy is faster than you'll ever need, the netbook market will fade away. We're already there for desktop consumer use.

I get 10 hours of battery life out of my single core atom, which I am very happy with. Unfortunately it's also very slow but it serves its low-cost extended mobility purpose very well.

In 10 years if I can get i7+ performance in a machine the same size with the same battery life for the same price, why not?