Atoms are a bit overrated right now. The clock-per-clock performance is nothing short of pathetic. They're better for PDAs and such, for which they were actually designed. 2-5W CPUs aren't really neccesary in sub-notebooks, as they have plenty of other power-eating things. A 10-15W CPU would be optimal, really. With some cleverness, it could be passively cooled, too.james@alienware wrote:
Atom cpu...the only thing I wish my mininote had.Sup wrote:
Haven't really stressed it yet. It does run 1080p vids smoothly, saw someone playing cod2 and FEAR on it. I was amazed when I read Atom is passively cooled.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Nice. How is the Atom doing?
That still doesn't change the fact that Atoms are cool as fuck.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP