What do they have for outputs? HDMI? DVI? VGA? On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Mr O <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dual Core Atom system with 160GB HD, 2GB DDR2 800, DVDRW, high quality mini > ITX chassis under $350 at CBase. > > > > --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Ben Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Ben Barrett <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] clearance on HP2133s > > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > > Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 12:29 PM > > You know that software-only view will hit a very hard > > wall... :) > > you can get dual-core atom in a desktop model, and I > > thought I've > > heard of people dropping those chips into netbooks... or > > maybe just > > wishing they could. > > > > Sure, hyperthreading is generally better than not, but of > > course it is > > a hack and using hyperthreading on a dual core is much > > better. A > > single-core hyperthreading-capable processor still has one > > cpu core. > > > > I don't believe that a hyperthreaded CPU has more > > available horsepower > > than a non-..., but rather that is a hack to better-handle > > the > > software, which hasn't kept up (or been able to, no > > blame). > > > > cheerio & tgif, > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, larry price > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ben Barrett > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I thought the N270 chip was merely > > "hyper-threaded" IIRC, > > >> and not actually having two ores: > > >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors > > >> > > http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/techdocs.htm > > >> > > > > > > It's a matter of semantics. > > > > > > I'm a software and protocols guy so if the OS sees > > two cores, it's a > > > dual core as far as I'm concerned. > > > > > > On the hardware level it's a bit murkier than you > > might think, each > > > logical core has hardware registers and cache that are > > exclusive to > > > them. > > > > > > But it's a multi-moot point since for most of the > > things a netbook is > > > useful for, faster and more parallel processing cores > > just means the > > > CPU is waiting faster ;-) > > > _______________________________________________ > > > EUGLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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