The difference is that the old sub notebook category came as premium machines aimed at the executive market, and came with a surprising amount of grunt for their size and were considered fully featured - my Vaio TR from 2004 came with a DVD Re-writer built in, 10.6 inch screen at 1280x800 and 40GB HDD, back when most large machine were only just breaking the 100GB barrier… and no, I’m no executive but I needed a machine that I could fly weekly with, and, might I add, the keyboard was and still is extremely easy to type on and probably preferable to this work HP I’m on now. The market still exists for these machines but the newer ones come with Core 2 Duo ULV chips, oodles of RAM, huge SSDs and stupidly high screen resolutions and will set you back a couple of grand.
I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of the newer netbooks to test but to no avail, as I believe that the Atom is an in-order processor and I wanted to see how it compared to an out-of-order single core chip (like the Pentium M)… I’d like to see how bad the “minor hit in performance” really is…
I’m toying with the idea of the N10 with the discrete GPU – then I can frag on the khazi, where my gaming machine would break/burn my thighs!!!
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The difference is that the old sub notebook category came as premium machines aimed at the executive market, and came with a surprising amount of grunt for their size and were considered fully featured - my Vaio TR from 2004 came with a DVD Re-writer built in, 10.6 inch screen at 1280x800 and 40GB HDD, back when most large machine were only just breaking the 100GB barrier… and no, I’m no executive but I needed a machine that I could fly weekly with, and, might I add, the keyboard was and still is extremely easy to type on and probably preferable to this work HP I’m on now. The market still exists for these machines but the newer ones come with Core 2 Duo ULV chips, oodles of RAM, huge SSDs and stupidly high screen resolutions and will set you back a couple of grand.
I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of the newer netbooks to test but to no avail, as I believe that the Atom is an in-order processor and I wanted to see how it compared to an out-of-order single core chip (like the Pentium M)… I’d like to see how bad the “minor hit in performance” really is…
I’m toying with the idea of the N10 with the discrete GPU – then I can frag on the khazi, where my gaming machine would break/burn my thighs!!!