Atom Processor vs Intel CPU

Atom tal-Intel ta..

OK. Didn't know that. But how does it compare to a E8400?

You have a 3.0 dual core versus a 1.6 single core multi threaded cpu.

And an atom cpu is used for its very low consumption, its less powerful than a dual core.. but it should work well (depending on what app of course)

And if its a touchscreen with an Atom, Windows 7 not XP.. but you would be uncomfortable as 1GB is a bit short.

Can you pm me the tablet details or w/e it is?

Tried running a VM with those kind of specs?

As far as I know, Intel produced the Atom CPU to fit it in smaller machines such as Netbooks and Tablets. Their main aim was to be used for everyday computing, although you can have development machines running on such an architecture. It is smaller and less powerful, thus you can place it in smaller devices, and since it is less powerful it consumes less power (more battery life and less heat).

So in short, I doubt that you will find an ATOM CPU which can yield similar processing power a dual core CPU. At most, you can increase your RAM, that usually helps, but other than that, you do not really have a ton of options.

Atom is on-par with a Pentium 4 processor in terms of processing power, check this benchmark chart for an idea of the difference between the E8400 and the 330 (which is acually the dual core version of the N455, so you can basically divide the socres by two):

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/91?vs=56

Thanks, guys! 

The alternate setup, with a regular PC with a 15" touch screen is an i5-2400 with 2GB RAM and is only €22 more expensive so I think I will suggest the latter setup. The other one was cooler since it had no fans and solid state drives. But if something went wrong it meant changing all the machine.

buy a micro atx..