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The early Atoms weren't P3 based, they were an original low-power design and actually quite a bit slower than the P3 at similar clockspeeds. Though a lot of the

• haikuginger 9y ago
  > Though a lot of the unpleasantness of using those machines was more from the extremely anemic GPU which has also improved considerably since then. Specifically, the GMA950 that didn't have hardware video decode for H.264, which was already the mainstream choice for any Internet video. Combined with the anemic in-order Bonnell core, it was dead on arrival for most uses involving any sort of video. Some netbooks even came with a separate Broadcom PCIe card whose only purpose was hardware video decode.
• morganvachon 9y ago
  Actually they trace their lineage directly to the PIII. The original Atom was based on the Stealey line, which in turn was based on Pentium M, which in turn was based on the PIII design. Later Atom revisions left that legacy behind and became their own distinct process.