Howdy, Most intel processors are Core 2 architecture these days. But, the Atom is very different. It executes the same instruction set and is compatible enough for OSX. It was brought to us by the Intel team in Austin that designed the P4 and suffers from a deep pipeline, just like the P4. It seems to me that a Atom 330 would make a pretty nice OSX box. I'd really like it in something like a eeepc, so lets see what 2009 will bring. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-cpu,1947-5.html There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. Good day, Ralph
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:48 -0800, PeterH wrote: > Ever notice that regardless of designation (Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 > Solo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and, most recently, Atom) most Intel > processors are actually Core 2 processors, and, therefore, are fully > capable (with some hacker help) of running "vanilla" Leopard? > > I have 10.5.5 running on an MSI Wind (Atom 230) right now! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
