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the
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relativly the same price
tho even that is a bit high :(]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Hopefully most good manufacturers can offset this in some way.]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
I completely ignored the last 2 generations of Archos PMPs because they omitted support for this... now that we have this processor, there's NO excuse.]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
What are you smoking? This chip is meant for small laptops/netbooks, even so it can not decode 1080p alone smoothly; beside, you wont notice any difference between hd and sd even on the latest archos series, due to limited screen res and size, not to mention the space 1080p content takes, plus the side-effects of a 8w cpu in the pmp.]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Actually, regular single-core Atom processor can play HD video:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/04/via-nano-trounces-intel-atom-in-hd-video-playback-not-quite/

Given that we now have 2 cores, it's highly likely it'll be capable of HD video playback.

Also, you're probably the billionth person to say there's no point of HD on small screen devices like Archos PMPs. However, I'm afraid you're wrong because:
a) I already have a large collection of 720p/1080p resolution video I'd like to watch on the go WITHOUT having to re-encode them to a lower resolution + supported codec. In other words, I just want to drag and drop them straight onto my PMP and watch them.
b) It may not make as big a difference on a small screen as it does on a large screen but IT DOES make a difference since we're downscaling high resolution video and so any artifacts in the video appear less noticeable.

You do have a point regarding the power though... maybe we'll have to wait forever for fuel cell batteries to become standard (and compact)!]]>Sep 20th 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
@E71 -> feeling the same way myself re: high def content...i'm certainly not gonna attempt to keep a seperate version of everying for my portable players...already do that with my CDs in Flac and AAC for my ipod and its a royal pain...]]>Sep 20th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
There's a lot of misinformation about TDP=total consumed power. The last story made the incorrect conclusion that total power draw was 8 watts. Unfortunately, that really isn't the case.

I've built 10 D945GCLF-based mini-itx atom systems so far, and without optical drive and a basic HD power consumption comes to 25 watts idle, 30 watts under max load. I'd tack on another 10 for dual core. As noted, the real power drain here is the 945 Chipset (ironically the only thing which requires active cooling). I can't for the life of me figure out why they haven't moved to something better and more suitable yet. I refuse to buy a netbook until the matching chipset is paired with Atom, or the power drains are essentially mitigated by the old 945 chipset. I sense that intel just watnted a way to dump a warehouse full of 945 chips.]]>Sep 20th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.slashgear.com/nvidia-demo-tegra-atom-video-playback-intel-should-be-worried-0311879/]]>Sep 21st 2008 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Or "ensure that?"]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sps7g78aBPY]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 21st 2008 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
"Intel has officially begun shipping a 45nm dual-core Intel® Atom™ Processor known as the Intel Atom Processor 330. The newest member of the Atom family is designed specifically for nettops, which are affordable desktops purpose-built primarily for web surfing, email, and basic Internet usage."]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 22nd 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Thanks, Engadget.

PUT IT IN THE MINI, DELL. PUT IT IN.]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 22nd 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
The Asus N10 netbook would be a good candidate for these though.]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
CoreAVC runs 1080i just fine on the wind and I am sure that double the processing power, which is what the 330 has, will allow the threshold of gaining 1080p processing of matroska files. ]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=33303&vpn=BOXD945GCLF2&manufacture=Intel) and it runs 720p very well in Vista with WMP11 or VLC and Quicktime or VLC on Leopard if you build it as a hackintosh but as for 1080p, its a no go. 1080p is horrendous. Choppy and unwatchable. The only way to watch 1080p with this thing is if Intel pairs it with a better chipset like G31 or you run a graphics card like ATI HD 2400 or GeForce 8400 for basic 1080p playback.]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
I'm suddenly looking forward to netbook news on engadget from now on.]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZuN0xXWLc]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 21st 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Data robotics could do it with a new version of the Drobo share, now that I'd pay $200 for.
]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/

from the intel article:

"The newest member of the Atom family is designed specifically for nettops, which are affordable desktops purpose-built primarily for web surfing, email, and basic Internet usage. The dual-core Intel® Atom™ Processor 330 features a 1.6GHz processing core, 1MB of level 2 cache, an 8W TDP"

keys points:

1) for nettops, which are affordable desktops"

2) 8W TDP - the mobile version would consume way less... (for example, current Atom single core consumes 2.5 W)
]]>Sep 20th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-AYAv0IoWI]]>Sep 20th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Love to get a netbook with Ubuntu and this.]]>Sep 20th 2008 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 20th 2008 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
the mobile versions are not due to 2009...]]>Sep 20th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Combine that with CoreAVC (far better at splitting the load between multiple cores compared to libavcodec, which powers everything from mplayer to ffdshow to VLC) and Haali's Renderer (for raw-frame buffering, helps smooth out framerates during bursts of high-motion) and you should be able to play back any 720p content without a hitch.]]>Sep 21st 2008 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 21st 2008 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/The thing that keeps me from getting one: is waiting to see what comes out next! (and at what price!)]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/
Once they get rid of that thing and go to the matching Atom chipset (next year), I'll look into netbooks. Until then, we're going to have to stick with thick netbooks with heat issues. It would be even worse with dual core Atoms for laptops, which this story isn't really about anyway. This story is about the Atom for nettops (desktops for emailing and light porn surfing). With the Poulsbo chipset, we'll get Intel Atom processors for netbooks clocked faster, and maybe machines thinner than 1.3 - 1.4".]]>Sep 21st 2008 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/20/intel-officially-ships-1-6ghz-dual-core-atom-330-processor/Sep 21st 2008 4:06AM