Athlon II Neo K125 vs. Atom N450

[haylui]

Why would anyone ever consider picking x86 over ARM for a smartphone? This "smartphone/handheld" MID buzz has been going on for 4 years at least by Intel. Never heard of actual products though.

it is not easy to standardize ARM processor on market.
so developer might consider x86 due to backward compatibility and one platform for all chip capability;
but I don't think x86 core would be able to perform on par with ARM chip if it ever consume same level of power

[Manicdan]

i like the idea of a super lower powered pc for running winxp as a torrent server, or ftp server, or some kind of pc where i need to leave it on 24/7 and NEVER plan to touch, the moment i touch it i feel like i bought a kids toy in a shiny case

[Calmatory]

i like the idea of a super lower powered pc for running winxp as a torrent server, or ftp server, or some kind of pc where i need to leave it on 24/7 and NEVER plan to touch, the moment i touch it i feel like i bought a kids toy in a shiny case

Linux and rTorrent?

[Behemot]

And VsFTPd

[RejZoR]

What i like the most about AMD Neo CPU's is the fact they are accompanied by a proper HD4000 series GPU. And that helps on several levels, including DX10 gaming support (Intel fails even on something as basic as TnL support from year 2000), Adobe Flash acceleration and HD video acceleration. Intel doesn't have anything of that and i see it as a massive advantage for AMD.

[Behemot]

VIA have almost all of it too and unfortunately it didn't help much.

[MrMojoZ]

if its the same speed as ARM with equal or lower power consumption, i wouldnt mind. would love to have SuperNES and GBA

ARM has emulators too, I don't understand what you mean here.

[cegras]

So the most important aspect of a netbook/notebook hasn't been tested -> runtime and or power consumption...

Netbooks are unbelievably terrible, you can't even scroll smoothly in an excel spreadsheet. Sorry, but runtime is more aptly translated as 'how much longer do I have to put up with this'?

[MrMojoZ]

Netbooks are unbelievably terrible, you can't even scroll smoothly in an excel spreadsheet. Sorry, but runtime is more aptly translated as 'how much longer do I have to put up with this'?

Which is why having a CPU twice as fast with a decent GPU is probably a good thing right?

[BeepBeep2]

What i like the most about AMD Neo CPU's is the fact they are accompanied by a proper HD4000 series GPU. And that helps on several levels, including DX10 gaming support (Intel fails even on something as basic as TnL support from year 2000), Adobe Flash acceleration and HD video acceleration. Intel doesn't have anything of that and i see it as a massive advantage for AMD.

Which means in reality this platform is even leaps and bounds ahead of nvidia ion.