What would an acer aspire netbook compare to?

low end Pentium M like 1.4-1.6GHZ chip. Don't expect it to be a speed demon, but it will do fine for some video content playback, office work, and web surfing.
 
I ran some quick n dirty cpu benchmarks in Sisoft Sandra against my gf's 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 and the numbers were very close.

I would say its in the same ballpark/comparable to a 1.6 to 1.8 GHZ P4 in just raw cpu power.
 
hmm.. thats odd, because the aspire one i looked at showed two physical cores in DXDiag (I wasn't allowed to use CPU-z on the system.. stupid staples), at least it seemed to, but I am not sure if dxdiag shows HT and Dual Core in separate ways, or just says 2 cores either way
 
Aspire Ones definitely have single cores. Promise. There are as of yet no dual core Netbooks, just "nettops", and they're very rare.
 
hmm.. I suppose thinking that people who work in electronics stores might actually know what they are talking about. Stupid assumption. That kind of makes me sad, It would be awesome to have a dual core netbook. I would probably sell my laptop.
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
hmm.. I suppose thinking that people who work in electronics stores might actually know what they are talking about. Stupid assumption. That kind of makes me sad, It would be awesome to have a dual core netbook. I would probably sell my laptop.
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That's likely to happen some time in the next six months, just not right now.
 
I don't know what it would compare to, but it would be plenty for browsing, chatting, and word processing.
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
hmm.. thats odd, because the aspire one i looked at showed two physical cores in DXDiag (I wasn't allowed to use CPU-z on the system.. stupid staples), at least it seemed to, but I am not sure if dxdiag shows HT and Dual Core in separate ways, or just says 2 cores either way
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It shows 2 'cores' because the Atom has HyperThreading.
 
i love my atom based eee pc 901, same CPU

does fine with all web video i have come acrossed and i play my DVR-MS 720p and 1080i on my little screen with lower res.... and it doesnt skip at all... dont think it could port 1080i on to a TV or monitor of any decent res, but thats really the fault of crappy intel IGP


cant wait til AMD/ATI gets a 780g based netbook..... :)
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
hmm.. thats odd, because the aspire one i looked at showed two physical cores in DXDiag (I wasn't allowed to use CPU-z on the system.. stupid staples), at least it seemed to, but I am not sure if dxdiag shows HT and Dual Core in separate ways, or just says 2 cores either way
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Hyperthreading.

I love mine, it even PS CS4 without any problems. But I would not photoedit on it due to the size of the screen. My runs Vista smoothly :)
 
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