On 1/8/13 1:11 PM, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
Atom is a corruption from Microsoft if you ask me. For no good reason they limit the ability of the processor like no virtualization extensions for 64-bit CPUs, only 2 GB of RAM, etc. It seems like Microsoft pressured Intel into creating the lower processors to push their lower end OSes, or was it the other away. I found a Lenovo ideapad S205 with AMD E-450 processor and it has been a very nice little netbook. I can run 64-bit VMs and have 4 GB of RAM. I don't miss the Atom netbook I had at all.
Atom was meant to (try to) compete with ARM, it had nothing to do with Microsoft.
I only use it for specific servers that I have reasons not to virtualize. Almost all of my stuff is virtualized, and thus not on Atom.
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