Why Atom sucks

[OBLAMA2009]

if you axe me, atom is a really damaged brand at this point. when you think of atom, you think of computers that respond 20 seconds after you click. netbooks are/were a useful form factor, but atom and low res screens killed them

 

[podspi]

which most certainly was due to the crappy hdds those netbooks shipped with and not atom itself.

That is probably part of the story, but not all. I replaced the hdd with an ssd and it was still pretty awful. Had about the same subjective effect as bumping the memory up to 2gb from 1gb.

I think there have also been memory and igpu improvements. This coupled with Win8 leads to a big boost in subjective performance.

 

[Haserath]

Atom with Android or iOS would have been a decent match instead of Vista. Vista is only ok on a recent desktop dual core with a 7200rpm hard drive and patience.

Atom is as damaged as celeron, and that takes awhile to recover from, if it ever does.

 

[zephyrprime]

45nm atom is an old design and was also a first generation product. I don't know why people would be expecting very good performance from it.