Anything to improve performance is welcomed. The Atom is slow for today's "web browsing." Sure, it works fine if you're doing classic "web browsing" (checking emails, news, simple IM, etc). Now, "web browsing" means streaming video from youtube/hulu, video chat. multi-tabs web browsing, ajax heavy websites, etc. The Atom is not up to those tasks. The least it should get is dual-core. Of course, intel wants to keep Atom as the low-end choice, thus I don't expect performance to be improved much.
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.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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Anything to improve performance is welcomed. The Atom is slow for today's "web browsing." Sure, it works fine if you're doing classic "web browsing" (checking emails, news, simple IM, etc). Now, "web browsing" means streaming video from youtube/hulu, video chat. multi-tabs web browsing, ajax heavy websites, etc. The Atom is not up to those tasks. The least it should get is dual-core. Of course, intel wants to keep Atom as the low-end choice, thus I don't expect performance to be improved much.
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.