Secrets of the Atom cracked, Wind PC revealed

Filed under: Laptops

Everyone wants a new generation ultra-portable pumping the Atom processor right? After all, it’s Intel’s latest and greatest Centrino proc. Not so fast… literally. Impress got their hands on an unofficially released MSI Wind PC (the mini-PC, not the low-cost laptop) and subjected the 1.33GHz Atom processor to a suite of standard tests. While the source is in machine-translated Japanese, that table comparing the Atom with Eee PC 900’s Celeron and a typical ULV Core 2 Duo found in a wide range of full-sized, ultra-portable laptops speaks for itself. Keep in mind though that Intel’s Atom is supposed to be less power hungry than its peers and CPU benchmarking is hardly the last word when it comes to determining real-world laptop performance — read/writes to disk, memory, and other system nuances must also be considered. Nevertheless, based on this table and other mounting evidence, first and second generation Eee PC owners shouldn’t feel any compulsion to rush out and upgrade to Atom on day 1.

[Via Technophone and Notebook Italia]

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