[DLSLUG-Discuss] 12" portable

[Bill McGonigle]

On 08/06/2009 12:45 AM, mike upper valley wrote:
>     * Intel ATOM Processor N270 Single Core (1.60GHz 533MHz 512KB)

My netbook (eeePC 1000he) has the 280, which is only barely faster than
the 270 (lower voltage is the main appeal) and it's usable but a bit
pokey compared to something like a C2D at the same speed.  You do wait
for things.  YouTube will take the whole CPU.  Linux sees it as a
dual-core due to hyperthreading but it feels like a single core.

That said, it's perfect to throw in the bag, can run for a solid 6 hours
on battery, with LUKS and wireless on, so I can't complain at all.
Extra vertical rez would be nice as many apps presume huge screens these
days (I haven't yet figured out a way to force GTK to override absurdly
large fonts specs either, which hurts) so I hook up an external display
when at the office.

I'm running Fedora 11/KDE on it.  IIRC correctly, Fedora 12 will be
compiled -mtune=atom by default for the i686 branch, which might help.
I just ordered another atom machine for an embedded use - they seem good
enough to replace the celerons for low-power apps.

-Bill

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