Despite the 40£+ price difference NVidia is presently on its way to dominate the current Atom market. 3rd party Intel 945 GMA-driven Atom 330 (dual core) was being discounted to 39£ by some retailers in September and early October. They have now stopped the dumping in the inevitable run-up to Xmas, but it is bound to restart on boxing day.
If Intel does not deploy something by Xmas which destroys the basis for NVidia proposition they are looking at some misery ahead. They will definitely not be able to sell a lot of the crappy GMAs, surrounding chippery and thermally-half-baked MBs they forcefully bundle with the current Atom MBs.
Being under scrutiny because of the AMD Intel probably finds it difficult to use their usual method of golf-talking OEMs into "Don not use NVidia or...". So they actually have to "innovate". Hmmm... preparing 50-60£ to get a discounted NVidia from the post-Xmas sales may actually be a good idea...
It's not just NVidia crashing Intel's party, it's VIA as well - the latest VIA Nano 3000 CPUs look very promising on paper.
It it Intel or just imperfect journalism saying that the two-core Atom is for desktops (i.e. is there something preventing its use in notebooks and netbooks? )
These new processors appear to be a repackaging. What performance improvements are there? Could it be that Intel doesn't feel any competitive pressure so it's not really improving the Atom so as to prevent erosion of their Core parts?
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
Intel to fast track Atom 2.0 introduction
Anonymous Coward
Different reason #
Posted Monday 9th November 2009 12:31 GMT
Despite the 40£+ price difference NVidia is presently on its way to dominate the current Atom market. 3rd party Intel 945 GMA-driven Atom 330 (dual core) was being discounted to 39£ by some retailers in September and early October. They have now stopped the dumping in the inevitable run-up to Xmas, but it is bound to restart on boxing day.
If Intel does not deploy something by Xmas which destroys the basis for NVidia proposition they are looking at some misery ahead. They will definitely not be able to sell a lot of the crappy GMAs, surrounding chippery and thermally-half-baked MBs they forcefully bundle with the current Atom MBs.
Being under scrutiny because of the AMD Intel probably finds it difficult to use their usual method of golf-talking OEMs into "Don not use NVidia or...". So they actually have to "innovate". Hmmm... preparing 50-60£ to get a discounted NVidia from the post-Xmas sales may actually be a good idea...
David Hicks
Didn't think the N270/280 could do 64 bit? #
Posted Monday 9th November 2009 13:07 GMT
Otherwise I'd have a 64 bit OS on my eee901.
Still, maybe time for an upgrade next year then...
Nigel 11
Not just NVidia #
Posted Monday 9th November 2009 16:21 GMT
It's not just NVidia crashing Intel's party, it's VIA as well - the latest VIA Nano 3000 CPUs look very promising on paper.
It it Intel or just imperfect journalism saying that the two-core Atom is for desktops (i.e. is there something preventing its use in notebooks and netbooks? )
Torben Mogensen
Connection? #
Posted Monday 9th November 2009 16:21 GMT
I wonder if this has any connection to last weeks announcement by Asus that their ARM-based smartbook will be delayed until Q2 2010?
Tony Smith
Re: Not just NVidia #
Posted Monday 9th November 2009 16:21 GMT
VIA's Nano 3000 consumes rather more power than the netbook Atoms. So do the nettop Atoms, which is why you're unlikely to see a D510-powered netbook.
Unless, we're all ready for the 'desktop replacment' netbook. Someone'll try it soon enough, mark my words.
Patrick 14
Why bother #
Posted Tuesday 10th November 2009 00:32 GMT
I got myself a secondhand Dell d410.
Nice small 12" screen. 40gb hd upgraded to 160gb.
came with the longer life battery 4-5 hours+
2gb ram ddr2 @667
total cost £130 for laptop with 512mb ram upgrade to 2gb over 2 sodimm £16 from cex.co.uk
Hard Drive was £46
Total £192 and thats with the Centrino 1.86ghz cpu with warranty too...
Laptop from www.computermarkets.co.uk the manchester show.
and the laptop is in really good condition and so is the battery like new the battery
Show me a netbook with those specs for that money hang on you can't
VoodooTrucker
Still holding out... #
Posted Tuesday 10th November 2009 00:32 GMT
for an ARM.
Anonymous Coward
Are these processors faster? #
Posted Tuesday 10th November 2009 00:32 GMT
These new processors appear to be a repackaging. What performance improvements are there? Could it be that Intel doesn't feel any competitive pressure so it's not really improving the Atom so as to prevent erosion of their Core parts?
Not Intel. They'd never do that.
Anonymous Coward
@VoodooTrucker #
Posted Tuesday 10th November 2009 08:48 GMT
Think you've got the wrong article, you must be after the robot Swede.
Terribly sorry.