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    The Intel love

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by zAzq, Mar 28, 2011.

  1. zAzq

    zAzq Notebook Consultant

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  2. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    ^Taken from the article linked.

    But the Atom chips have had this capability and I have one in my hand right now that has all these functions (except 64-bit) enabled. The Z-class Atom's were the ones aimed at the embedded market... NOT the N-class.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 28, 2011
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  3. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    I actually sorta laughed when i first saw Atom Blades. I mean theyre a great idea for smaller sites or anything that doesnt have a high cpu load. But the prices are not impressive either.
     
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Atoms are weaker than Pentium M architecture, so no thanks.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 28, 2011
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  5. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    cpu performance isn't the bottleneck in a lot of server setups (especially cache-servers for smaller far away locations).

    there it makes lots of sense.
     
    davepermen, Mar 28, 2011
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  6. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    + you can use an atom in an ftp server too. :D


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  7. TomJG90

    TomJG90 Notebook Evangelist

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    They're comparable to pentium4s so really no chance for me. I'd be really happy if ARM gets the server market. Their CPU's will be way better. I never ever will get an Atom netbook. Atom just isn't powerful enough.
     
    TomJG90, Mar 28, 2011
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  8. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Depends on what you want to do with your server or netbook. I have an Atom netbook and it runs most all common windows desktop apps perfectly fine (i.e. Office, Adobe Flash, Web, email, etc). Anything beyond that, not really. For a strict file server it would probably be adequate too.
     
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  9. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    LOL written by "Charlie Demerjian"...
    A guy with big issues and usually writes ridiculous articles on how much he hates Nvidia, how IGP in Sandy Bridge isn`t working in Linux although he had no drivers for it, how much Windows 7 sucks etc.
    I think just about any CEO of a big hardware/software company knows and hates this guy. :p
     
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  10. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    Karamazovmm, Mar 28, 2011
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