http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/ Engadget Comments for Secrets of the Atom cracked, Wind PC revealed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/ATOM is *much* slower then Celeron, but is also much less power hungry about ~2 Watts! ]]>May 21st 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/Why are the memory scores different?
why is the MSI Wind with 1GB of DDR2 @333Mhz better then then the ASUS EeePC 900 with 1 GB of DDR2 @400Mhz.

still need to see a multi-threaded application test for the Atom.]]>May 21st 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/wind 533Mhz
Eeepc 400Mhz]]>May 22nd 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 24th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
I'm not pro or against Atom, this test is worthless unless its in a controlled environment.]]>May 21st 2008 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/The hard drive may well be a 3.5", seeing that this is a ultra-compact desktop type and not a subnotebook.

Narrowly extrapolating from the CPU Score, a 1.6 GHz Atom would be roughly equivalent to a Core 2 Duo running at 600 MHz. (1159 / 2832 / 1.33 * 1.6) * 100% = 49.2%.]]>May 21st 2008 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
But the Atom processor supports 2 threads (via hyperthreading) which should offset this limitation somewhat.

Remember, atom works at a 2.2 watts tdp (with hyperthreading) while the existing celeron 353 in the eee 900 works at 5 watts. If hypertheading does boost performance then atom will give better performance per watt... which is the point.]]>May 21st 2008 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
Even assuming that web browsing will be the dominant use for the LCUPs, low-power will need to be offset by substantially longer battery life for the trade-off to be worthwhile. Web page rendering is getting more CPU-bound with more use of Flash & animation.]]>May 21st 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
In other words, if the Atom has a good perf/power ratio, but it takes longer to perform the task, you've probably just wasted the Atom's thrifty power savings keeping the rest of the system functioning during the wait (lcd, backlighting, spinning drive, fans, etc.). That's why Intel is focused on the entire platforrm (so they can similarly optimize the other subsystems that they have dominion over). But, unless they're going to actually build the unit themselves (not sure, are they?), they won't have control over every other power draining subsystem in there.

]]>May 21st 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/I would like to see these benchmarks on the Diamondville, too just to see how it compares to the Silverthorne.
Compared to these crystalmark benchmarks:

http://www.eeepcnews.de/2008/04/18/intel-atom-benchmarks-via-isaiah-vergleich/

i am sure we won't see a big difference between these 2 Atom versions]]>May 21st 2008 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
(where's my all-day computer, dammit)]]>May 21st 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
Lets look at target audience and use here, not benchmarks.]]>May 21st 2008 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
Atom in the MSI Wind Laptop(not desktop) will be 1.6ghz which will be slightly better than the Celeron in the currently available EEE 900 series. All of the machines above should of had XP as the OS too.

When the MSI Wind notebook is tested, then we will see.

]]>May 21st 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
...except for battery life I would say.]]>May 21st 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/is this the "celeron atom"?
because i read an article couple days ago and saw something about a celeron atom]]>May 21st 2008 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/
I was all set to buy an MSI Wind at launch, but I just picked up a used Thinkpad X-series notebook on eBay for the same price instead. It might weight half a pound more, but Core Duo still destroys Atom.]]>May 21st 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/msi-wind-pc-benchmarked-secrets-of-the-atom-cracked/May 21st 2008 11:00AM