Intel Atom processors are great! When I’m discussing netbooks with relatives or friends, I often say that and then I get the puzzled looks. They don’t understand how can a slow processor be great. Maybe if I said these processors are necessary to make netbooks what they are today, they would understand, but then I would have to go into a lengthy explanation to get my point across. The first…

Atom processors are netbook CPUs designed and manufactured by Intel. These processors offer a low-profile power consumption and reasonable performance for a low budgetary price. Netbook manufacturers like to use them for their high efficiency, and low price, these are also the lowest power consumption X86 based processors on the market at the moment. There are other solutions, such as ARM based CPUs used in smartphones and some MIDs(Mobile Internet…

Atom N280 does not support 64 bit instructions, but there is no need for it either. Since the processor core is intended for netbooks, where space and other restrictions apply to maximum amount of memory available, it doesn’t make much sense to use a 64 bit processor to work 2GB of RAM.

Atom processor speed benchmarks show that these processors are indeed not intended for everyday high-performance use. These figures show that a mobile processor of the same cost bracket usually does under-perform the desktop processor.

Mini notebook Atom processors are part of Intel’s processor line made for mobile use. These processors are designed with high power efficiency and low budgetary price in mind, therefore their performance is not up to par with current desktop or full-fledged mobile processors.

An Atom Processor is a computing core manufactured by Intel designed to be used in low power consumption devices such as nettops, netbooks or mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The Atom series is made for one single purpose, to break into the ultra portable segment of notebooks.

Intel Atom processors are mobile processors made for ultra portable use with low power consumption and simple architecture to achieve high performance to power ratio. These processors have been around for more than two years and they’ve found their ways into netbooks and nettops. Atom architecture on the other hand is neither revolutionary nor the best solution for the problem.

It’s hard to single out the best atom processor, it’s entirely up to you what you consider the best feature of such a processor. There are several best processors in the Atom line, actually.