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Mik3yB

4:09 PM on 9 September, 2009

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Harsh but fair Mr Kelly. Harsh but fair.

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Jonas

4:12 PM on 9 September, 2009

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Smartbooks?...Really??

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xenos

5:13 PM on 9 September, 2009

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I take it you don't have a netbook then Gordon? :-P

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LetsGo

5:31 PM on 9 September, 2009

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Atoms are not rubbish, the chipset surrounding them is.

It may not have the performance of a core 2 Duo but they are just battery killers & laptop heaters.

Intel should concentrate on keeping TDP down while trying to get the chipset running 1080p.

The only application that atoms can not run properly are games, if you want to play games why not buy a console or handheld.

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jopey

5:57 PM on 9 September, 2009

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Do we really need another "book" device between a smart phone and a netbook? Are these "smartbooks" in the same space which the apple tablet is going to open up?

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chessnuts

6:25 PM on 9 September, 2009

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This couldn't come soon enough. The current Atom chips really are painfully slow even for basic web browsing.

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LetsGo

8:32 PM on 9 September, 2009

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chessnuts you need to clean your system and stop using IE.

I'm running Firefox. Visual Studio 2008, uTorrent, McAfee and a few Adobe PDF`s responsiveness fine.

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Xiphias

9:41 PM on 9 September, 2009

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The standard for the netbook category has to be the eee 701 and the new Arm-based machines are going to be closer to that then the Ion-based £350 machines. So, why don't we keep the netbook name for those machines designed for the net and other basics like the eee 701 and arm-based machines and come up with a new term for the more ambitious machines? Personally I'd just catagorise them as the cheap end of the ultraportable category with performance to match but videobooks would work, or nick the smartbook term.

Having netbooks be the mid-range of three catagories of tiny notebooks is just going to confuse a lot of people initially when there's been lots written about how they're the absolute basics.

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chessnuts

10:42 PM on 9 September, 2009

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LetsGo I'm running a windows 7 RC heavily stripped down for best performance, Readyboost is being used, and my browser isn't IE6/7, I'm currently using Firefox 3.5 which has also been tweaked to increase performance due to making little difference out-of-the-box. I've also tried IE8 and Google Chrome and had no extra luck. It's the Acer Aspire One netbook. Oh and latest updates areinstalled too.

The processor is simply too slow in its current form and Intel shouldn't be selling. Thankfully I only have to hang in there for a few more weeks until I can afford to buy an average performance PC.

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castas22

4:56 AM on 10 September, 2009

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I recently bought the HP mini 5101 and am having no problems with the atom N280 chip. I use it for uni and have had visio, word, excel and adobe all open at once along with skype and google chrome.

Running windows xp but maybe it helps having 2 gigs of ram and a 7200 spin hdd?

So no problems for me, though anything faster is always a bonus ^^

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LetsGo

9:24 AM on 10 September, 2009

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@chessnuts my 2gb ram Samsung NC10 runs Windows 7 fast.

Its not the atom holding back your system's speed.

You probably need to install more Ram and use the correct drivers.

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