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FYI (re: consumer Atom) Intel have just started taking Atom seriously again, after majorly neglecting it for the previous 5 years. The current Silvermont/Bay Tr
by polshaw 13y ago
FYI (re: consumer Atom) Intel have just started taking Atom seriously again, after majorly neglecting it for the previous 5 years. The current Silvermont/Bay Trail is twice as fast as the last, bringing C2D+ performance (eg 2010 MBA) with tablet thermals and battery life. It will now be on Intel's primary process too, so the days of Atom universally sucking are over (thanks ARM).
- tluyben2 13y agoOfftopic; Can you point me to a laptop with that? I use a 2010 MBA all the time and if I could get something for the price of an atom with that performance...
- tbyehl 13y agoA bunch of tablets are out with the new chips, I'm typing this on a Dell Venue 8 Pro. Acer or ASUS have a 10" model with a keyboard dock to make a proper clamshell.
- polshaw 13y agoSee UMPCportal. My favourite is the Asus T100, but it suffers from the problem with most of the current crop of Bay Trail-T devices; 2GB of soldered RAM. 64GB model will be around for $300 around black friday. The HP Pavillion x2 should have 4GB, but is much pricier. IMO the Acer C720 chromebook is the best deal around currently; just put linux on it and replace the 16GB SSD with a larger one, performance should be even better than the 2010 MBA AFAICT. Things are definitely starting to get very interesting though, I'll be keeping a close eye on devices released in the next 6mo.