Ah, the tradeoff between processing performance and battery life. It’s probably the most challenging compromise that we mobile device users have make. Too many horses under the hood and your battery peters out in two hours or less. Slow down the CPU and you can compute for five hours… at a relative snail’s pace. My hope for the Intel Atom chipsets was not too much of a performance hit but greater run-time. Although it’s way too early to tell, one of the first performance benchmarks has surfaced on the new Atom and it makes the 900 MHz Intel Celeron look good. Note: shorter bars are better.
Again, far too soon to see how this will shake out once we finally see some devices with the Atom, but it’s clear that our age-old compromise isn’t going away anytime soon. I should also mention that the benchmark test isn’t one that I would have chosen, so when we get our hands on an Atom device running Windows we’ll give it our own test.

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