Intel rejects Atom rename claim Intel has denied a claim that it will change the name of its low-power Atom processor when the next version of the chip, codenamed 'Cedar Trail', ships later this year. The unnamed industry mole(s) who say otherwise were't apparently able to say what new name Intel has picked. But they did claim that the rebranding excercise …
"But they did claim that the rebranding excercise is to be put in place because a drop in demand for Atom CPUs is believed by Intel to have resulted from a poor brand image, DigiTimes reports."
Er, no, it's because lots of people used Atom netbooks, and swore never to touch the festering pieces of shit again because they were so atrociously slow, and crippled from a technical perspective in the netbook format.
My next portable will be Brazos. I've used one, it's actually *usable* with Windows 7. Here's hoping by the time I get round to it, a couple of Linux distros will have solid support for the chipsets.
Steven R
sucked in Netbooks, even with a whopping 2GB RAM
Sure it offered decent battery life and propped XP up in a mediocre fashion, but it's downfall was it's single core design with little help from the Hyperthreading that it supported
Hopefully the genuine dual core Atom will pick up the batten as I do like Netbooks and own one but rarely use it due to the Atom processor limitations.
If not, the Atom will continue it's lower profile life within the innards of entry level NAS type devices and any other "appliance" like geeky device that uses embedded Windows or Linux. Wait a minute! Isn't that the ARM processor's playing field too?
Fark!
My old 1201n used the nettop Atom 330 dual core paired with an nvidia ION chipset and was decent for everyday stuff and light gaming. Ive now got a DM1 with a Brazos E350 and there's really not much noticable difference in grunt from the chip just a big leap in battery saving. Benchmarks show a bigger boost but in real terms theres not alot in it. My only hate of the previous intel chip is its hardware limit of 32 bit addressing on a 64 bit chip so I could only ever use 3.25GB RAM even with windows x64.
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