The Acer Atom Notebook line went from zilch to famous in a hit under the name Aspire One. There are many different variations of this series, so you need to take a look at the individual models to be able to tell the difference.

There’s not much to say about netbooks these days, they seem to come in that many shapes and sizes and all you can decide if you want one, or couldn’t care less for a mini laptop. Fortunately there are some manufacturers that say no to the average boring design.

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 vs. Core 2 Duo, even the idea is strange to grasp but there is more sense to it than you’d think. When you think about Atom a fairly slow and the least powerful processor you can buy brand new on the market today pops to mind and Core 2 Duo processors are only a few months into being retired by i7.

An Atom Processor motherboard is a Printed Circuit Board that can be used with an Intel Atom processor. These motherboards are almost always integrated with the processor itself because the packaging Intel uses is BGA.

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.

Cpubenchmark.net has a respectably comprehensive list about Intel Atom processor benchmark results. I’d like to pick just the most popular ones so that you don’t have to weed through that monster list.

Intel Atom processors are made for ultra-portable use, in other words for you to be able to use your netbook on the go for hours at ends. The main point of these processors is their efficiency so that they don’t eat up the little Lithium-Ion battery you get with the mini notebook. It makes sense to compare the different versions through atom benchmarks though.