Chip Shot: Intel Atom is Half the Performance of Celeron

http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/03/chip_shot_intel_atom_is_half_the_performa...

After the end of the formal executives presentations at the Intel Investor conference, I wandered around the demo area set up in the same building, looking for some cool new technologies. To me the most interesting one was, "news oblige", the Atom booth where Intel engineers were showing prototypes of Nettops using the upcoming low-power Atom processor.

I chatted with Nettop general manager Noury Al-Khaledy (pictured) about his Atom-based desktop that could sell at the super low price of 200 dollars. Inspite the Atom CPU low performance, about half of the Celeron chip (the Atom chip is supposed to be th smallest [performing] element of computing), I thought it was enough power to surf the web or watch a standard definition movie. "It's purposed built from the ground up to deliver an Internet centric usage model. Very simply what that means is, if you want to surf the Web... It does that great... It's a consumption based machine (social networking, web browsing, very light editing)... It's a very aspirational box for someone who's trying to do a Net type of experience. If for example you want to watch HD video or you want to decode or encode videos, then we'll be looking at a Core 2 Duo box... Pricing will be around $199 to $250 price range... The mobile version of that, you would expect a $250 to $299 price range", said Al-Khaledy.

And as a souvenir, Intel gave all the conference attendees a sample of the Atom chip... pretty cool!
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/03/chip_shot_intel_atom_is_half_the_performa...

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[raonipaes]

was this guy fired for telling the truith?

[narcoti]

Prove that this is faster than the Q6600 and I will stop dating your mother.

[TheNinjathroatslap]

@TheAuchamp1 it isnt plugged in because the board he shows is just for display...

[munteanuioan]

so what celeron???478 celeron,775 celeron D celeron dual-core??????

[TheAuchamp1]

did anyone notice. the CPU 4 pin power isnt pluged in. LOL?

[jdcrispe95]

He is so fuckin hot!!

[abXLinden]

2min 1sec the guy said asses not asus ROFLMAO!!

[ozzytonygeezerbill]

This processor is purpose built to really suck

[y35n00b5]

"As-ess"....LOL its Ah-sus...sexy accent though :o

[psychoclown420]

@genericperson1 U NO IT!!

[psychoclown420]

He talks about the atom so condescendingly... i have used a 1.6ghz atom based netbook for 1.5 years straight now, and it has a lot of potential. A lot of flaws as well, the first gen has a higher power consumption, and heat output... BUT i have run windows xp, ubuntu linux, max os x leopard, and windows 7 on this netbook, and they all run well enough, as the internet is the main purpose of this machine.

[Datzfunk]

Sure he's telling the truth.. The atom isn't supposed to be super performance, it's supposed to be super efficient. You get a mini board with one of those cpu and it consumes maybe 20 watts, perfect for laptop.. double, triple battery life.. perfect for headless server running 24/7, consumes maybe a sixth of the power of a modern desktop at idle.. I want one for my home server. :-)