Intel® Atom™ Processor
For netbooks
Simple devices for the Internet and email.
The Intel® Atom™ processor serves as the brain for a range of simple, compact devices designed for the Internet called netbooks. The Intel® Atom™ processor delivers the performance needed to enjoy popular activities like streaming videos or music, emailing, web surfing or instant messaging. Whether you’re at home, traveling, or hanging out at a café, you can enjoy your favorite online activities.
What the Experts are Saying
"Why the conversion? For starters, it's fairly light and lean (weighing 2 pounds and measuring 9.8 by 6.7 by 1.14 inches), yet it still manages to squeeze in Intel’s 1.6-GHz Atom processor. Aside from MSI’s Wind, this is one of the first machines to show off how well Intel’s bargain-priced CPU can perform."
PCWorld.com | June 21, 2008
Key Features
- Designed to be compact in size
- Based on groundbreaking low-power microarchitecture, the Intel® Atom™ processor powers Internet devices designed to go where you go. Sometimes all you want is to go online to keep in touch with friends or follow your favorite Web sites. Netbooks with the Intel® Atom™ processor deliver convenience and flexibility for a good Internet experience.
- Just the Internet. Just Email. Just Right.
- The Intel Atom processor was specifically engineered to deliver the performance you need to keep surfing, blogging, listening to music, watching video or communicating with the world as you move through your day. And the Intel Atom processor’s low-power design enables extended battery life so you can stay online and on the go longer..
- All of the Internet, none of the baggage
- Perfect for when you want to take Internet capabilities with you and leave the rest behind. Whether you want a companion machine dedicated to online activities or an easy-to-use device for letting your family explore the Web, the Intel Atom processor makes those Internet activities accessible.
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Reviews
LAPTOPMag.com | June 18, 2008
"One of the biggest selling points of the Atom processor is the ability to provide lots of endurance, at least when paired with a nice sized battery."
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LAPTOPMag.com | June 12, 2008
"Atom’s biggest contribution to the Eee PC 901 is in the area of endurance. It helped power the 6-cell battery to nearly 5 hours of battery life with Wi-Fi turned off, which is short of the 7.8 hours touted by Asus, but still enough juice for plenty of computing."
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LAPTOPMag.com | June 3, 2008
"The MSI Wind NB is one of the first mini-notebooks powered by Intel’s Atom processor—the smallest and lowest-power 45-nanometer processor to date. This 1.6-GHz CPU, along with 1GB of RAM, helped the Wind NB outperform other systems in its class."
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