Comments on: UPDATED: Dual-Core Netbooks are Coming, Eventually

By: Nameless

Nameless — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:51:01 +0000

Dual-core Atom + GeForce 9400M would be very intriguing, so long as they can keep the battery life up.

Top off with N-Trig (or, better yet, Wacom + Synaptics ClickPad for multi-touch) and Windows 7, and I’m sold.

By: hendrik

hendrik — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:36:20 +0000

I hope they´re really going to release this, I´d buy one. Netbooks are cool and offer a lot of usability for a relatively cheap price, but I´ve often found myself getting impatient because of lags or general slowness. I have used an HP Mini 2133 and a newer Asus EEE Pc with the 1.66 GHZ Atom (which a friend of mine had bought), they were both good, but they could be better.

My dream conifguration for a netbook would be the HP Mini 5101 (nice videos from James, as always), with a high-res screen, the dual core atom processor and the nvidia IGP, plus it mustn´t run hot…I´d buy that immediately. Anybody at HP reading? ;-)

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:55:50 +0000

Checking into the translated source (original in Japanese) there is a caption to a photo showing dual-core that indicates this really has a single core Atom 230 processor. We’ll verify what we can and change the post to reflect that this doesn’t look like a dual-core netbook, despite CNET’s article.

By: Vivek - The Technicist

Vivek - The Technicist — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:49:49 +0000

Yeap, the Atom N270 is a hyperthreading processor, so Task Manager will show two logic processors. However, this is just single-pipeline multithreading.

I’m interested to see how the dual core does inside a netbook – the 330 thermals were not designed for netbooks, so heat-related issues will be something to watch out for, especially with an Nvidia IGP on the side.

By: mike j

mike j — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:29:57 +0000

Is this suggesting that most existing atoms are not dual core? when I check my acer aspire one or any of my friends net books with hard drives task manager always shows two cpu’s. Is this hyper-threadig ?

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:39:04 +0000

I just checked back and they updated an incorrect cache size but it still indicates it’s a dual-core processor.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:22:02 +0000

Actually, the source CNET cites in its article has updated the original article. The netbook has a single core Atom N270 CPU, not a dual core Atom 330.