Atom is a basic, slower....(for today.. but able to do everything but high level Gaming etc) Single core processor that uses low power. It is THE processor in almost all Netbooks. you'd be hard pressed to find any other!!! they own this market and intel is the giant in the processor field. If you want to know is it good... yes and almost the only choice in a netbook.
this is either a Netbook or a low level notebook (walmart deal
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jorbill2or wrote: Atom is a basic, slower....(for today.. but able to do everything but high level Gaming etc) Single core processor that uses low power. It is THE processor in almost all Netbooks. you'd be hard pressed to find any other!!! they own this market and intel is the giant in the processor field. If you want to know is it good... yes and almost the only choice in a netbook.
this is either a Netbook or a low level notebook (walmart deal
Thanks, jorbill2or, I'm not really looking at a Notebook, but we just happened to notice this and had never heard of it. I did like the fact that it had XP.
My netbook with the atom has a extended service battery that will last 5.5 hours before needing a charge. Got it at Fry's electronics for $269.00. It has 1 Gig ram and a 160 gig hard drive. It is only slightly slower than my full size laptop. the only drawback is that the keyboard is somewhat smaller than the full size laptop and kind of hard to get used to. Netbooks usually don't have disk drives, if you want one you can buy a USB diskdrive that will work well.
Atom is a family of low-cost, low-power CPUs from Intel that implement the i586 instruction set, i.e. Pentium capabilities, not necessarily the same performance. It has been used by a number of manufacturers to build small, lightweight portable computers called "netbooks," designed more for Internet access than for deployment of technical and productivity applications.
Atom processor netbooks (and small desktops) fit into a Microsoft program to put a heavily discounted Windows XP on low-cost, low-performance computers targeted to uplift the Third World into a more modern era.
Yesterday at Best Buy I noticed that at least one of the XP netbooks (a Dell if I recall correctly) used a Celeron processor. More speed, shorter battery life, but still eligible for the "special" XP license. Today's Celeron more than matches the performance of a turn of the century Pentium.
You should also Know that windows 7 will now be the OPsys these will adopt you'll see more and more that way. XP is going away 7 runs great on these netbooks It was designed to do so. MS wanted to put a low powered 7 on them that can only run 3 programs at a time but the netbook can run more ... just gets slower the more you run.
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