There will be no for seeable impact other then a few people holding off for the Atom N370 which I haven't seen a single announcement about yet. The Atom 330 is purely a desktop chip. :)

This chip also has interested applications as a tiny Linux server (Home Server, NAS, etc), the Atom 230 wasn't that bad under linux :)

Still have my eeePC 4g, still plays movies, games, web/email 3hr battery life. Still only cost me $350 almost one year ago. I need a dualcore netbook for uhhhh.....

why didn´t you just give it back ?? :P

I did. I said wait until Christmas and there will be lots of models to choose from.

You haven't seen anything yet.



The single core Atom systems were already limited by their single channel 533MHz RAM & 4 year old shared memory gfx chip.

The other big complaint was battery life. Dual core makes that worse.

What they should have done is system on a chip.

You only have an engineering sample? Was this article written a month ago?

The Atom 330's are in stock and for sale in Canada now.

I've got one embedded on an Intel mini-ITX board that will be in my hands monday or tuesday.

... Think HP Mediasmart windows home server ... except with twice the hard drive, 4x the ram, better CPU, for about 20% less cash.



The dual core atom is why I haven't bought a nettop yet, and probably why prices are dropping once again.

Well I just got my Dell mini 9 and I just sold it! I will wait till the Dual Core hits the market to get another one!