Everyone wants a new generation ultra-portable pumping the
Atom processor right? After all, it's Intel's latest and greatest
Centrino proc. Not so fast... literally.
Impress got their hands on an unofficially released MSI Wind PC (the mini-PC, not the
low-cost laptop) and subjected the 1.33GHz Atom processor to a suite of standard tests. While the source is in machine-translated Japanese, that table comparing the Atom with Eee PC 900's Celeron and a typical
ULV Core 2 Duo found in a wide range of full-sized, ultra-portable laptops speaks for itself. Keep in mind though that Intel's Atom is supposed to be less power hungry than its peers and CPU benchmarking is hardly the last word when it comes to determining real-world laptop performance -- read/writes to disk, memory, and other system nuances must also be considered. Nevertheless, based on this table and other
mounting evidence, first and second generation Eee PC owners shouldn't feel any compulsion to rush out and upgrade to Atom on day 1.
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posted May 21st 2008 5:48AM
@CosterMoster
Diamondville is available on the Intel Little Falls Mini-ITX board, so you can buy it ;)
CPU results are going to be improved, this is not the model they are going to release to the market. INTEL did not release Diamonville (Atom) chips yet, that's gonna be in June.
This one has Atom Z520, which is Silverthrone and that's single core. Why no one can wait for the real device and still use this one which is not quite the same as they are going to release?
Question:
Not really based on this article per say but when the Atom debuts in a low-cost laptop will I be able to comfortably have Outlook 2007, Word 2007, and iTunes all open/running at the same time? I'm a student so if it can't handle that much, they I'll have to look elsewhere. My ancient 2.6 Ghz Celeron/512 mb RAM/64 mb VidCard struggles with the above tasks (iTunes stutters/locks everything up) so that's my benchmark. What do you guys think about the Atom handling that much?
No.
Get more ram. That is your problem, not the CPU.
It depends... After this little laptop will have Diamonville version of Atom (Dual core) and with 1GB of RAM and maybe SSD drive it won't be a problem. I have several times burned AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and it still can do this kind of work without any big lag and I think that this very old machine would score lower comparing to Atom.
And I just suggest trying to avoid Outlook 2007, Office 2007 and iTunes. They are not going to offer you anything spectacular, only a nice GUI and that's all. And by choosing right software to do the job you would not have to waste more money for almost nothing. That was just the suggestion.
Well, benchmarks that I've seen put the Atom at around the same performance as a VIA C7-M per clock cycle, which is to say, about 50-60% the performance of a Celeron M at the same clock speed. The advantage of the Atom over the VIA chip is that it takes about half as much power at the same clock speed.
Point is, if you want to know what the Atom can do, have a look at low cost laptops running a Via chip.
I am a lifetime Apple user and I'm not afraid to say that iTunes has become a total joke. Get a real music player which doesn't use 90 percent of your CPU to play an MP3. iTunes is the most bloated, underperforming, overfeatured abomination in Apple history.
now we sit and wait for isaiah
Which has a much higher TDP than any of the ULV proccesors
TDP= heat not power consumption.
Low Graphic score of MSI WindPC compared to Sony laptop can be explained by usage of slower DDR2 memory - 333 against 400. Since they both use GMA 950 integrated graphics, and they both use part of system memory as videoram, slower RAM results in lower memory bandwidth. Of course, processor also has great influence.
Also, according to Wiki, different versions of 945 chipset have different clock speed - 945G,945GM,945G, 945GZ - it varies from 133 to 400 Mhz, which also affects the performance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA
Big HDD score of MSI Windpc is due to usage of 3,5" HDD (7200 rpm) against mobile 2,5"(4400\5400 rpm)