[Eug-lug] Intel Atom

[Mr O]

Don't expect worlds of performance. It's probably not a whole lot faster than a decent P3. The goal for Atom is power savings. Intel will very soon have two mini-ITX boards on the open market though you'd be spending three times as much to get setup with one. Boards should be under $150, CPU from under $100 and up to whatever you want to spend. That would be a far more powerful tiny system. The Atom boards are readily available under $100 though. 


--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Darrough, James <james.darrough at oregonstate.edu> wrote:

> From: Darrough, James <james.darrough at oregonstate.edu>
> Subject: [Eug-lug] Intel Atom
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 4:53 PM
> Just wondered if anyone has tried one of the new Atom
> motherboard/CPU
> combinations. Looks very interesting. I am thinking about
> replacing the
> motherboard in an old HP Cube with one of these babies and
> thought I
> would ask.
> 
> Regards to all, Jim
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