It is my solid impression that most of you use, or are planning to buy computers far too powerful. Far too powerful for the tasks you can throw at them. It’s okay, marketing is like that. In this article I aim to prove that it’s often unnecessary to buy a PC for a thousand dollars, and you already have the skills to build one for under $250 given a list…

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…

Intel Atom N270, the all singing all dancing star of last year’s netbooks. There are quite a few things it’s capable of doing, and there are a few we should not attempt if we were to keep our sanity. N270 benchmarks aside, it’s probably just about time to shed some light on the basic features, not everyone is in clear understanding of what’s going on inside a processor, and more…

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…

Released in 2008 Q2, the Intel Atom N270 is not the most recent processor, but it definitely has benefits to users even today. Netbooks have been on the rise since 2007 and introduction of this processor in 2008 gave the category a huge boost. If you want to have a computer that is cheap, small, light weight and goes for a long time on a single charge, you need to get one with an atom processor.

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.

Atom processor dual core CPUs are made for low consumption leaving everything in the processor that is absolutely mandatory to keep it functional.