http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/ Engadget Comments for Demand for Intel's Atom CPUs finally beginning to cool? 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/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/]]>Apr 28th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/20/nivida-ion-platform-to-support-via-nano-processors-this-year/

However, this post's assertion sounds like suggesting that Hemi is in competition with Goodyear.]]>Apr 28th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
@RemDX
Or you could do what most people do with netbooks...

Download Windows 7 (it's legal) and install it with a USB drive or SD card.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, it'd probably run Windows 98SE at super speed. But modern OSes and apps seem to overload it.]]>Apr 28th 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
Netbooks- $299-$499
Neobooks- $599+ (the hp is $799)]]>Apr 28th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
The neo may aim for a different class, but there is defacto competition between the platforms. AMD's biggest reason for differentiating Neo and Atom is so as not to get labeled as an also-ran, but to try and get judged on performance. Competing well with Atom in the n270 iteration wasn't going to happen, so they tried to leap-frog and get an early start a rung higher. But that doesn't mean there aren't people weighing atoms against Neos when it comes to real world purchases.

You're not completely wrong though. There are also people weighing Atom purchases against low-end, nearly-retired C2Duo models. ]]>Apr 28th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/

Also net book is the market segment that Intel created. Do you think Intel will just sit around and watch "NoVIADIA" to snatch that.Apply some common sense. Intel still owns net book segment pretty much. NOVIADIA launching a platform doesn't make every body use their product.

We want news here and not stories of your newly hired reporters.Please....]]>Apr 28th 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
Just because Engadget is free doesn't mean people can't complain about the quality of writing/ stories, news websites like the BBC are free to read and still manage to use correct grammar and spelling (most of the time)

What kind of nazi regime do you think this is people always have a right to complain.]]>Apr 28th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/And yes the Ion is not a competitor to the Atom.]]>Apr 28th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
I guess you enjoy stories more then facts...kiddo. Enjoy reading rediff.]]>Apr 28th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
You are right!
You know what?
I'm gonna complain too.
D'you hear that Engadget?]]>Apr 28th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/Apr 28th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
At least with Gizmodo, I feel like I'm reading a blog that's written by people who are as versed as I am in technology. And I really enjoy that.

I'm ready to let Engadget go, sadly.

Bye folks!]]>Apr 28th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
And even when A9 processors are available, they'll only appeal to a limited segment of the market (including me) because you can't run Windows on them.

So, at present I don't think any other processor that consumes the N280's 2W can deliver similar or better power than Atom. Atom's paired graphic processor eats a lot of power (8W), but there are no other options here either! The supposedly more modern options (Intel's new crappy chipset, Nvidia's one that makes up Ion) take even more! Crazy.

The new 'put a massive battery on everything' approach kinda sorta helps but rather than using 6-cell batteries, we'd all be better off if companies got serious about power consumption (we don't need to run Crysis or Blu-ray video on the things). As of right now, being serious about power consumption means using Atom, too.]]>Apr 28th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
At the same time, for ultra thin and long battery life netbooks, manufacturers can use high-clocked ARM Cortex-A8 cores (and similar Qualcomm Cortex-based Snapdragon), and eventually dual-core Cortex-A9 which are powerful enough to do what the Atom can do but will give you 12-16+ hours of battery life easily.]]>Apr 28th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
As to this story, I doubt the atom has any real popularity problems. There are probably as many people waiting for the next Atom as there are looking at other options.


]]>Apr 28th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/demand-for-intels-atom-cpus-finally-beginning-to-cool-off/
I used a netbook for awhile (the Asus 1000HE) before giving it to my Mom for her birthday. The battery life was a dream, yes, but the processor/chipset is really what kills the thing. Considering that the main purpose of a netbook is for internet surfing, you'd be surprised at the amount of sites that just chug along with the lack of power. With the internet evolving along to more rich media, heavily flash-based web content and video, the Atom processor alone just isn't enough. Even something Ion based, with an Nvidia GPU, assumes that programs are written to handle offloading the work onto the GPU, but the problem is that as of today, not everything you would probably want to use a netbook for does that. That means that you'll be needing more processing power than the Atom can muster.]]>Apr 29th 2009 1:52PM