Netbook Processors

the heart of any computer system is a chip known as the CPU - central processing unit - which is the engine that runs the entire computer. Most laptops for sale at this time equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. These are the same processors used in desktop computers lager, as well, which means that it is good (ie not too cheap) laptop can handle the same challenging tasks as well as any desktop machine. However, processor-powered netbooks, which are much less powerful.

the heart of any computer system is a chip known as the CPU - central processing unit - which is the engine that runs the entire computer. Most laptops for sale at this time equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. These are the same processors used in desktop computers lager, as well, which means that it is good (ie not too cheap) laptop can handle the same challenging tasks as well as any desktop machine. However, processor-powered netbooks, which are much less powerful.

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, however, the Atom is much less potent than its bigger brothers in the Core 2 Duo range There are several different versions of the Atom, but the most commonly used model at this point is called the Atom N270. This processor operates at 1.6GHz, which sounds pretty impressive, but the netbook is equipped with a 1.6 GHz Atom is nowhere near as fast or as powerful as a real laptop computer equipped with a Core 2 Duo processor running at the same speed. Even so, most netbooks are still perfectly suitable for web browsing, and even doing a bit of office work with Microsoft Word or Excel, as long as you do not mind peering at documents on such a small screen.

and, of course, Intel and its rivals are constantly developing newer and more powerful processors of all time. Already looking forward to see the latest version of the Atom, who will be called Atom 330th This is a "dual-core" chip, which effectively screws two processors together to improve performance. Even so, as early reports indicate that the Atom 330 is a lot faster than the previous Atom chips, it's still a lot less powerful than the Core 2 Duo processors that are used in conventional laptops. This emphasizes the point that the netbook is primarily a mobile communications device than the general-purpose computer.