Chips for Netbooks

I just read an article in which it was said that the Atom chip costs about $43 while a Celeron chip costs $53. (Here is the link to the article http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Enterprise-IT/Infrastucture/Is-Atoms-growth-hurting-Intel/articleshow/msid-4498882,curpg-1.cms

In terms of processing power, which is better?

If it is Celeron, then why don't netbook manufacturers base netbooks on Celeron chips?

I remember an older laptop I had which ran XP Pro on a Celeron chip with less than 1GB RAM.

 

Difference is probably negligible. They use atom because it is cheaper and more energy efficient

 

Celerons are not used for several reasons:

1) They lack SpeedStep technology, so the CPU operates at its highest frequency; for a design that has power consumption as its top priority, this is unacceptable.

2) The Celeron produces far more heat than the Atom.

 

nope, atom is $29 only.
intel may be pondering price hike.

 

OK. Thanks guys. Point clarified. The heat and power consumption, I guess, would be the key.

Cheers!

 

And cost also to the manufacturer. That, and the Celeron still has somewhat of a bad name attached to it (amazing, after 10 years, it still has that stigma attached).

 

Well when a modern celeron still has as much cache as my pentium 2 had I have to laugh just a tiny bit. That said my first pentium 4 only had 512k as well. That said this T9600 will have more cache then all my previous computers combined.

The Celerons are typically not much more then a Pentium with less cache and less features. Things are changing a bit but so far not all that much.

 

Celeron ----------------------- Atom
More powerfull less powerfull
Uses more power uses 2.5 watts ( if i remember correctly_
So a simple compairson basically saying it uses more power but its faster

 

I looked at the price list. The Atom 230 costs $29, but its a 4W TDP version targeted at Nettops. The N270 which is the most common used in Netbooks cost $43.