Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Sep 2008 23:20 UTC
As some of you may have noticed, I'm slightly obsessed with my Aspire One netbook, and actually, with netbooks in general. They are great little devices, more powerful than you'd give them credit for upon first encounter. And, but that might just be me, netbooks are what laptops should have been from day one: truly portable. El Reg has put together a buyer's guide for today's netbooks, and while the guide is generally spot-on with its assessments, it does present some odd choices here and there. Read on for some of my own thoughts grown out of experience.
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"Intel's new Atom architecture. It provides you with a modern processor with hyperthreading that draws a lot less power than other platforms."
It is true that atom itself is a real power sipper, but you have to consider the platform as a whole and unfortunately the chipset intel bundles atom with consumes far more power by itself than the atom cpu.
Until the next atom platform revision this will be the case, and as a result power draw between different chips will be not as significant.
EDIT: urgh, maybe my title isn't quite so accurate... but my comment remains true
Edited 2008-09-13 00:01 UTC