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Hence, the 330 has a TDP of 8W, while a dual-core 550 at 2.0GHz would have a TDP of 4.8W.

I'd much rather see a dual-core 550 with the ability to selectively disable a core when on battery. This would give a big boost in performance without affecting battery life.

The Atom series can really use some more muscle too. Playing around with tweaking an Eee PC 1000HE (1.75GHz in super performance mode) for video playback showed that it can play most 720p h.264 content back just fine when using a renderer that does raw buffering, but it was unable to play back some scenes (such as the opening of the Dead Space film) without slowing down. Since decoding was done by CoreAVC (which makes very good use of dual-core systems), a bump up to a dual-core 2.0GHz model would make all 720p content playable without acceleration, and would put 1080p content (with 2.25x the pixels) in the same position as 720p is now; much or most content would probably play back with some careful tweaking.

Of course, a graphics chip supporting CUDA would also fit the bill; CoreAVC supports CUDA, and the 9300M in some netbooks does too. 1080p content on those products should work just fine regardless of the slow CPU.]]>Mar 22nd 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/

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Look at auto industry, no one needed a fully loaded, 8 passenger, body on frame, V8 powered behemoth of an SUV, but people bought them for "just in case" scenarios, all the while they could have done just as well with a Honda Civic.

My point is why overpay for what you do not need, most people serf the web, play solitaire, some games which Atom can handle, some Office applications, music, movies...............computers from 10 years ago did fine with the same tasks as do all Atom powered laptops.


Why pay more so something you do not need?]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/
I totaly understand what you are saying, but I think this man wants a "powerful netbook".

In other words, he doesn't understand the netbook market.

2.0ghz is still better than 1.4ghz or whatever we have.

A little off topic, but wouldn't it be nice to have a netbook as a "thin client"? Something ala remote desktop?]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/
Kudos to that. Xandros Presto + noMachine. Assuming you can get Presto to install without it's xp buddy, and that !m is supported on Presto. Failing that, then just a ubuntu netbookremix + !m. All the thin client heaven.]]>Mar 20th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/P.S. I have an iphone and am running 3.0 firmware.. Just having a little morning coffee fun! :)]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/
fug]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/
But what I would really like to see them make is a chipset for Atom that doesn't require 1.21 gigawatts..
Double points if new chipset has mpeg2/mpeg4/h.264 decoding and HDMI-output built in..]]>Mar 20th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Mar 20th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Did you miss something?
The Poulsbo US15W chipset (for Z5xx series) use less than 2.3 watts (compare to 9.3 watts for 945GSE chipset for N2xx series). That's why Wind U120 is so energy-efficient.
Via:
http://ark.intel.com/system.aspx?groupID=36331&configID=27616&chipsetID=36550
http://ark.intel.com/system.aspx?groupID=35460&configID=27616&chipsetID=35555]]>Mar 20th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/Yep, both decoding (H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, VC1 and WMV9: 720p up to 1080i) and HDMI are there. Just look on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (got HDMI but doesn't has any software with which you could handle the hardware decoding). You can read it too:
http://translate.google.pl/translate?prev=hp&hl=pl&u=http://www.hkepc.com/2595&sl=auto&tl=en]]>Mar 20th 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/]]>Mar 20th 2009 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://ark.intel.com/cpu.aspx?groupId=35641
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Performance:
http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/intel-atom-z530-vs-atom-n270/

Power Consumption:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors
]]>Mar 20th 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/If you buy anything with a Z series processor you are sacrificing price and performance for power efficiency.

I for one wish that Engadget would make an effort to better inform people of the differences between the 2 families of atom processors.
It seems that public knowledge is generally that there is just 'Atom' or like you, that the Z series is better, usually assuming the same performance per clock for Silverthorn when this is not the case at all. Silverthorn was originally meant for superportable premium devices such as umpcs, hence the lower power consumption and higher price tag.]]>Mar 20th 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/intels-z5xx-series-of-atom-processors-hits-2-0ghz/
If the Atom reaches higher clockspeed but with less performance vs a lower clock speed Pentium dual core, then it's like Pentium 4 all over again.]]>Mar 21st 2009 6:01AM