Asus to Launch Atom Powered Eee PC

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According to PC World, ASUS’ CEO announced plans to launch an Eee PC with Intel’s Atom processor at Computex in Taipei this June.

"The [Eee PC] has really opened up a new product category," said Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel, during a launch ceremony for the Eee PC 900 in Taipei. There are already more than 25 low-cost laptops being developed around Atom, according to Intel.
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damb!
the 8.9" version wasn't enough to tempt to to a (possible) early upgrade but the atom... nice low power \o/
 
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

course i have to wait still. release it faster!!!
 
anthrex said:
this is the one I'm looking forward to!
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eeyrjmr said:
damb!
the 8.9" version wasn't enough to tempt to to a (possible) early upgrade but the atom... nice low power \o/
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I think this is finally what I'm looking for.

I've been wanting something ultra portable, but still usefull.

The original EEE had too small of a screen.

An 8.9" version + a faster Atom processor should be perfect.

I assume the 1.6+-Ghz Atom is faster (performance wise) and lower TDP than the 900Mhz Celeron M. So maybe we can get like a full day of use out of it?
 
Cool, I have been thinking about getting one of the Eee PC's for a bit but the screen on the first gen was way to low reso for my needs. The only other issue I had with the Eee was that even for how low power everything is the battery life still sucked.

June, I guess I can wait.
 
I saw some benchies that showed the Atom that would probably be in the EEE actually being slightly slower than the 900mhz Celeron M. The power consumption and hyper threading would be nice though.

Personally, I sold my EEE and just picked up a refurbished Dell X300 for the same money.
 
Both CPUs are ~5W TDP. The celeron doesn't have a speedstep type feature though, so you'll see some benefit due to that but not much.
 
I think that the atom processors are going to do more for Intel's bottom line than for us good ole computer users. They are cheap as hell to make and Intel will see their biggest profit from them.

The celeron has a max of 6.5 watts and the 1.6 atom has a max of 2.6 that some power savings but.... Any way you look at it the display is going to be 10~15 watts depending on brightness. There is the real power draw. The really sad thing is that Intel is releasing 800mhz atoms I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the eepc. I mean joe scmo will see it has the new ATOM! That's gotta be better than the shitty old celeron 800 right! You'll be begging for some VIA horsepower then...or the days gone by when you had the powerful celeron 800.

All the nice intel atom chips.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/105960
 
Didn't that new Via or whatever processor use less power and run better than the Atom or am I imagining things?
 
IIRC from the numbers I saw, the Atom is about 1/2 the speed of a Core2 on IPC. So a 1.86GHz Atom should be about the same as a 900MHz Core2 in single threaded performance.
 
Kristofff said:
Didn't that new Via or whatever processor use less power and run better than the Atom or am I imagining things?
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That's what I thought too.

Ah well, that VIA / NVIDIA combo should smash the crap out of it then. If they go the portable as opposed mini itx route.
 
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