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Intel's Atom — First Benchmarks and a Full PC Review
Barence writes "PC Pro has received, benchmarked and discussed the first Intel Atom processor to be seen in the wild. A full analysis of the Atom processor itself is accompanied by a full review of the first PC — yes it's a PC, not a laptop — to use one. The benchmark results are pretty much as expected, but it's the power savings that really excite. And as a rep from the PC maker, Tranquil, joked — they could have left the Atom CPU uncooled if they'd really wanted to prove a point, as it's the old graphics chip that produces 70% of the heat coming from the motherboard. Exciting times ahead for the upcoming Atom-based Eee and friends."
MojoKid was one of several readers, too, to mention the upcoming
Eee Box mini-desktop from Asus (also Atom-based), which is supposed to start from $299, writing "although the actual dimensions are listed,
the image from ASUS' booth really gives a sense of scale. In the picture,
the Eee Box is standing next to a paperback book."
I think AMD's competitive processor should be called the 'Eve'.
That is all.
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It was pegasus
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Looks like I paid top dollar for old tech.
All well, it still looks cool.
which is totally what she said
> Anybody have any idea why Microsoft would want
> to limit the amount of HDD space on a machine?
Don't you know? MS would like to encourage users to switch to alternative operating systems. Bill Gates himself said:
> "Guys like us avoid monopolies. We like to compete."
They're crafting a challenge for themselves (:
That's the problem with young geeks these days. No respect for their elders. What with their "pwned" and their "kthxbye" and their fancy-dan slidey-outie phones, why some of them barely have guts! And their beards! Little whispy things ... Makes me want to bust the keyboard off my Kaypro and come out swingin'! Just be glad papaw had his adderall this morning.
Wow, I didn't know there were any 3-digiters left alive. Since there's only a few WWI vets left, I figured you were all long since dead.
That's the problem with young geeks these days. No respect for their elders. What with their "pwned" and their "kthxbye" and their fancy-dan slidey-outie phones, why some of them barely have guts! And their beards! Little whispy things ... Makes me want to bust the keyboard off my Kaypro and come out swingin'! Just be glad papaw had his adderall this morning
Ooooh, tell us another story, Grandpa! Maybe about walking to school or making electricity from lemons, then making lemonade cause wasting is a sin.
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
The pictured unit from TFA looks to be just small enough to fit in the trunk of that "1 liter car"(which btw, does look good. I want one.)
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
Ah
Not only do we use a non-standard unit, but we use a non-standard unit of that unit?
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You've made a horrible mistake. You've used "Alpha" and "power efficient" in the same sentence without including a "not" ;)
The Sidewinder was based on an ARM processor.