Originally posted on December 26, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
Intel has now revealed the specs sheet of its Atom N450 mobile processor as well as the Atom D410 and D510 desktop processors, and there aren’t many surprises here. We all know that they offer little or no performance boost, but they use a lot less energy than the current Atom iteration.
Here’s a great analysis of the new Atom Pine Trail processors, offered up by Brad of Liliputing:
- The Atom N450 is a 64-bit chip, which means you can run the 64-bit version of Windows 7 on a netbook with this CPU, something you couldn’t do with the Atom N270/N280 chips.
- The package size is exactly the same as earlier chips, even though memory and graphics functions have been added.
- If you’ve been holding your breath waiting to find out if the GMA 3150 graphics core would support hardware video acceleration, it’s time to exhale. It doesn’t.
This makes me wonder; are the future Pine Trail-powered netbooks worth it? I mean, if we’re not going to get better-performing netbooks in the future, why stick with that these underpowered laptops and not go for the CULV-powered laptops? CULVs offer better performance and better power management over Atom processors anyway.
What do you guys think? Leave your opinions here!