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Dual-core Atom netbooks will limp onto the market
IT APPEARS THAT vendors are starting to worry about getting saddled with too many netbooks.
Rumours out of Taiwan say that netbooks using the latest dual-core Atom N550 processor are not expected to hit the markets until later this Autumn.
The reason is that vendors are less than happy about pushing netbooks while tablets are starting to come into their own.
Tablets were widely predicted to be netbook killers and in times when the economy is touch and go, vendors do not want to build up inventories of too many netbooks.
Acer's dual-core netbook, the 10.1-inch Aspire One D255 is already set for launch in the US in early September with the release in Taiwan scheduled for the end of the month at a price below $437.43.
While Acer was the first to set a launch date for the dual-core netbooks, Asustek has not even decided on its launch schedules. Digitimes thinks that some netbook makers will wait until October or November to launch their models.
It is not as if the bigger players have not got the machines built. Asustek has already revealed its dual-core netbook, the Eee PC 1015PEM. Lenovo and Gigabyte have also both showcased dual-core netbook models.
Intel is not too surprised, though. It apparently didn't expect Atom N550 based netbooks from OEMs to really start hitting the market until October and November anyway. µ
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I have an Atom n450 and it's actually pretty zippy especially for every day stuff. In my opinion the biggest let down in netbooks is the terribly under performing Intel graphics chips - many of which can't handle flash hardware acceleration (which messes with sites like youtube).
Oddly you can get a dual core atom n550 acer netbook right now from the home shopping channel for $399. Nowhere else? Weird.
The netbook is dead.
It's better to buy a device running on the ARM processor (rather than the Intel Atom x86 processor).
Smartphones, pods, pads, slates, smartbooks all run on ARM processors. They usually have 3G connectivity. Geolocation / GPS services. Energy efficient (batteries last longer). Often with touch screens.
I spent $550 on an Acer Timeline model last May. Core 2 Duo 1.3 ghz, 13 LED", weighs the same as an Atom Book, goes 8 hours on a 6 cell battery. I have a Dual Core Atom 330 server and I've benched the two against eachother. It's not even fair, the Atom just pukes.
Another under performing CPU that hurts the netbook platform. Users grow tired of the slow performance that comes with this ATOM netbooks. Buyers start to look elsewhere, which could also hurt AMD and its future Bobcat APU. AMD will have to do a lot of explaining and benchmarking to bring them back to this form factor.
Could it be many people like me will not pay absurd prices for a little netbook with Windows Starter. I have bought a nice 15 inch notebook for $450.00
Any netbook is not worth more than about $325.00 because of screen size.Plus no matter what Atom cpu they put in it, it is still an atom. Low powered and I like them but they are not to be compared with the much faster cpu's. They simple need to drop prices and not put a crippled OS on them if they want to sell them.
More clueless pillocks walking into my computer store buying netbooks thinking that they are powerful because they have 'the dual-core' then they come back complaining that the netbook is slow.
*GROAN*