On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Duane Attaway dattaway@dattaway.net wrote:
I run gentoo on mine. Its pretty fast at 3193 bogomips with the core2 instruction set. Some people say the Atom is slow, but I believe that's famous Intel marketing just like they did with the Celeron. The hard drive speed isn't bad either: 61MB/sec. That makes it quick for compiling code.
Clock-per-clock the Atom is slower. The Celerons used in the early Eee PCs (700 series) were down clocked any way (571-630MHz), and later Celeron Eee PCs (900 series) were only 900MHz. The Atoms are running at 1.6GHz so they still clean the clock of the downclocked Celerons because they are running at over twice the clock rate. The best advantage is power consumption though. Twice the battery life means I'm waiting for an Atom Eee to drop in price, or find another Atom netbook at a very low price.
Jon.