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Netbooks may be crippled laptops, but that doesn’t mean a little more performance can’t be squeezed out of them. Intel’s new Pine Trail Atom processor is a step in that direction. Another step is a Pine Trail that supports faster DDR3 memory. Intel has obliged, not with one, but two new Atoms.
Intel’s two new processors are the 1.6GHz N455 Atom and the 1.83GHz N475 Atom. The N455 will have a TDP of 5.5W, while the N475 will have a TDP of 6.5W, making them comparable to the N450 and N470, respectively.
While DDR3 is faster, Fudzilla doesn’t see it as making all that much of a performance difference in netbooks. However, Fudzilla says, because DDR3 is getting cheaper, the price of notebooks could become cheaper as well.
Netbook Choice is expecting that DDR3 netbooks will start rolling out in the third quarter of this year.
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Yusonice
February 03, 2010 at 4:01am
Why ddr3 for atom? Not like it can take full advantage of it. Anw i guess its just tech moving forward, ddr2 wont be here for long
Stry8993
February 02, 2010 at 5:56pm
Because the atom is a speedy little bugger, but it really chugs when video tends to bottleneck the chipset.
Slipk487
February 03, 2010 at 8:06am
I already got DDR3 in my HP Mini 311, ION doesn't choke up on videos, flash player does but videos work perfect in mpc-hc.
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