Atom cant be compare to its big brother CPUs..Atom is the very low end and is capable only for simple processing, not workstation and heavy gaming... that said, intel made Atom to the wrong market group, imo Atom should be optimize for mobile usage such as tablets and phones..oh wait, what am i saying, intel never had their products management at the right track...
not to mention most hardware companies like Intel will push companies to make their product price high by making their CPU price high...when the truth is most Low Voltage i3 cost the same as Atom D4xx series...lol...that's just to make Atom mainstream and cover their mistakes on making the product at the first place... @tribaljet lol, yeah, most ppl do hate netbooks, no surprise their bro, i respect ur opinion, but i do often look both good and bad of a certain products...so in my opinion , if companies like acer (known for their Acer One, Timeline series and etc) and Dell (Dell mini and etc) wont reduce their lightweight laptops to a lower price, then netbooks still will be top selling to low end customer.... On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:08 AM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > It's always a performance indicator when certain hardware devices > aren't used for more serious IT market segments, and if I recall > correctly, atoms and neos are not to be used on even the lowest > workstation computers. And what core 2 duos are slower than atoms? I'm > guessing you're talking about those new dual core atoms that haven't > been shipped to most of the world yet, cpus that I don't believe to be > faster than any c2d, but I'm curious to know. > > On Oct 28, 5:50 pm, Koolguy007 <[email protected]> wrote: > > It still beat my old Pentium 4 2.5 GHz gaming rig into the ground (and > > yes I know its way obsolete). The new Atom processors are starting to > > bypass some of the low end Core 2 Duos. They still aren't power houses > > though I will agree. My friend has a 14 inch laptop that he got for > > $300, and it ran WoW at about the same speed as it did on my netbook. > > His is a Centrino based system with Ati graphics. I don't believe his > > was optimized though. It just depends on what you want to do and where > > you want to do it. Plus if this thing had enough power to play fun > > games then my homework would never get done lol. > > > > On Oct 28, 12:17 pm, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I agree that everyone has their own opinion on the matter. I'm just > > > saying that you have laptops that cost as little as a netbook, and > > > outperform it in basically every way. If netbooks had proper cpus, any > > > pentium dual core or low voltage core duo would suffice, I wouldn't be > > > so against it. And do keep in mind that such cpus are quite cheap to > > > manufacture. Oh, and optical drives are quite important for me, that's > > > why I wouldn't get a "gaming" netbook, even if I had the money. > > > > > On Oct 28, 5:11 pm, Koolguy007 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Everyone is entitled to there own opinion. I believe the prices of > > > > laptops would still be high even if netbooks never came into > > > > existence. I'm glad they did as it allowed me to have a cheap > reliable > > > > laptop for college. About the only game I ever play is Dwarf Fortress > > > > which is a cpu stressing application, but the only thing that brought > > > > it to its knees was the "hidden fun stuff". To each his own opinion > > > > though. I like mine and I believe it was money well spent. > > > > > > On Oct 28, 11:16 am, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > About the physical harm resistance, there's a big difference > between > > > > > solid state components and moving parts. netbooks are a grudge on > > > > > computing in general, not to mention they're another excuse for not > > > > > having lower prices laptops, since there is a new segment called > > > > > netbooks. They should have never have become tiny laptops, they > should > > > > > have arm, nvidia or some soc powering the thing, and limit it to > the > > > > > purpose they were made for in the first place, light browsing and > > > > > productivity apps. I'm against anything that makes overall > computers > > > > > cost more. > > > > > > > On Oct 28, 4:11 pm, breaker213 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > netbooks arent to bad they play pretty much any game made before > 2005 > > > > > > and some after for example fear works perfect for me with no drop > in > > > > > > fps at all on the lowest settings spore works great > oblivion(using > > > > > > oldblivion)works good inside buildings and dungeons outside is > > > > > > playable unless you get into a fight killing floor works good on > small > > > > > > inside levels like doom and pacman maps (there custom ones) those > are > > > > > > just a few games i can think of those are with > > > > > > > > acer aspire one > > > > > > windows 7 > > > > > > 1.6 n270 atom > > > > > > 1 gb ram > > > > > > > > but if you want to do real gaming without having to use lowest > > > > > > settings all the time get a laptop or even a desktop not a > netbook > > > > > > netbooks are build pretty good my friend droped his down the > stairs > > > > > > and it still works fine i have also droped mine a few times > > > > > > (sorry for the mass amount of text) > > > > > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Laptop: Acer Aspire Core Duo T2300E @ 1.67GHz Intel GMA 950 IGP Intel 945 Chipset 1GB RAM (512MB*2) Dual Channel DDR2 80GB standard PATA HDD Win7 Ultimate 32bit / Ubuntu 10.04 -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
