http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/]]>May 26th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/It looks to me like the ATOM will be near worthless for ANYTHING other than smartphones and so-called "MIDS". I don't think they'll even be able to compete for todays UMPCs and especially mini-notebooks like the EEPC.

And as far as smartphones go, No one is yet using ARM's latest. Their Cortex-A9 chips are dual-core, scale to over 1.0Ghz, and use hardly any more power than the current ARM11!!

I think everyone is overhyping the ATOM and it is going to have a tough time competing with new stuff from ARM, especially being the newcomer to the market. Also, with windows mobile, Symbian, Android, and OSX operating systems and development SDKs already having been ported to ARM, what good does x86 do in a small mobile device? Its not like you'd want to run windows XP on a smartphone... Both the OS and the UI on small devices has to be vastly modified anyways.




]]>May 26th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/I've mainly used the Pentium M and Core 2 Duo ULV processors and am very happy with them.

I would love if the MSI Wind, HP Mini-Note and EEE 900 could have even used Core Solo or even Pentium M ULV processors.

I think the really only benefit of Atom is its low price compared to Intel's ULV chips?]]>May 26th 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/
8W for dual core Atom if it isn't for any special ULV version is pretty good. You will not also get any 10W ULV C2D chips for cheap.]]>May 27th 2008 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/Sep 23rd 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/
so it looks like I'll be waiting for these suckers to come out before I get a sub-notebook]]>May 26th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/This atom is just so utterly boring.
I cant excited about a very slow chip.I mean what kind of marketing crap is this? We are meant to think that slower is now somehow better or what gives?

Is there no end to this rubbish?
Is the consumer now so stupid that they will buy into this backward crap?]]>May 26th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 26th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/
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Shows dual Atom's at 1.33mhz]]>May 27th 2008 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 27th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 27th 2008 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/May 27th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/
But considering that, as many has said before, the Core2 Solo ULV doesn't consume much more power than a dual-core Atom, and it would out-perform it by miles, the only advantage Atom might have is it's [supposedly] cheap price tag.

If it turns out that a dual-core Atom is much much cheaper than say a Core2 Solo, only then would I consider it. If not, it probably has no business in personal computers...

That's my view, at least.]]>May 27th 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/Jun 4th 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/rumored-dual-core-atom-details-get-fleshed-out/
Personally I don't see the interest in Atom for these sorts of markets.]]>Aug 15th 2008 7:20PM