The Intel Atom Processor
Monday, October 13th, 2008I have recently found bargain laptops but I was quite surprised to see that manufacturer x was not selling Atom based processors for budget bases mobile computation. The company was advertising dual core Intel processors and Celeron budget type processors for mobile technology, ok ok so this is what they do but where are these Atom processors?
I’m not sure if its the fact that the processor is new and manufacturers are reluctant to snap up the chips but if I remember correctly the processor sold like hot cakes so they could be used for mobile computing in third world countries and households across the world.
I have seen these laptops with the Atom technology cropping up here and there but they still use linux based operating systems because it uses less resources than windows xp. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that these processors were in-fact high speed and capable of running windows xp flawlessly unlike the older Asus EEE PC using a Pentium 1 processor. I must of been mistaken in thinking the Atom will be used for mobile computing like any other laptop but micro. There is always a catch!
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