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Brandon Hill (Blog) - September 25, 2008 8:52 AM
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Intel Atom

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Netbooks capture 9 of the top 10 notebook sales spots on Amazon.com

Intel's Atom processor has become the darling of the netbook market. Intel's 45nm processor runs at 1.6GHz and provides adequate performance for everyday computing while keeping power consumption very low.

Intel's Atom is also attractively priced so it has become a must-have processor for manufacturers looking to jump in on the $300 to $500 netbook market. Nowhere is this more evident than on Amazon.com's laptop sales leader board according to Mac Rumors.

Netbooks currently occupy nine of the top ten spots on the sales chart. The only non-netbook on the top 10 list is the 2.4GHz Apple MacBook which rings in at $1,203.98 after a $75 rebate. On the other hand, the netbooks on the list range in price from $329.99 for the Acer Aspire One and ASUS Eee PC 900 16G to $479.99 for the ASUS Eee PC 1000H.

All of the netbooks on the list -- with the exception of the Eee PC 900 -- use Intel's 1.6GHz Atom processor. Of the nine netbooks on the top ten list, seven of them are running Windows XP Home.

If we expand the standings to include the top 20 notebooks, netbooks occupy 16 of the top 20 spots.

The brisk sales of Atom-based netbooks seem to indicate that Intel is making inroads on increasing production of the popular processor. DailyTech reported in late August that some manufacturers have been forced to use Intel's older Celeron M 353 due to Atom shortages.

Looking forward, Intel is not resting on its laurels with the current single-core 1.6GHz Atom processor. Earlier this week, Intel began shipping its dual-core 1.6GHz Atom processors which have a TDP of 8W.

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and yet...
By omnicronx on 9/25/2008 9:51:09 AM , Rating: 3
And yet people still pay an arm and a leg for a pc with a fruit on the top.




RE: and yet...
By nosfe on 9/25/2008 10:00:28 AM , Rating: 5
and its not even a whole fruit, someone has taken a bite out of it!


RE: and yet...
By therealnickdanger on 9/25/2008 10:12:33 AM , Rating: 2
Interesting... I love wikipedia sometimes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer#Logos


RE: and yet...
By BladeVenom on 9/25/2008 1:11:32 PM , Rating: 1
When it comes to fashion the name and logo are the most important features. Don't look at the as electronics, but as fashion accessories.


RE: and yet...
By foolsgambit11 on 9/25/2008 2:00:53 PM , Rating: 5
Hey, let's not demean Steve Jobs.

Oh, you were talking about the logo, not the corporate structure....


Question to netbook owners..
By InvertMe on 9/25/2008 9:52:03 AM , Rating: 3
What do you use them for? Two co-workers at my company own them and carry their netbooks in addition to their normal laptop, blackberry and other electronic items. I see them pull them out and turn them on but never actually do any work or anything productive on them.

I don't see the purpose of one of these when you already have a laptop that you must carry around.

So please fill me in because I just don't see a practical application for most people.




RE: Question to netbook owners..
By Quiescent on 9/25/2008 10:13:34 AM , Rating: 2
I still have my EeePC 4g Surf from December 2007. I use it for all my basic needs. It's actually my first laptop in general. I can OC it to 1Ghz if I need to, I use 800x600 resolution because 800x480 is awkward for XP. I've used this for Photoshop, Dreamweaver. Until I ran out of space for Photoshop, and found a light-weight WYSIWYG editor. I currently have the following programs installed:

uTorrent, Adobe Reader, Audacity, cain & abel, Finale Notepad, Google Chrome, HD Tune, Java, Master of Orion II, mIRC, Firefox, Nvu, Simcity 2000, Speedfan, Treesize, VLC, EeeCTL, EeePC Res utility, SNES emulator, SNES games, Pidgin Portable, Damn Nfo viewer, Winamp, wireshark, Microsoft Office 2003.

I use of all of these. Some more than others. But it's very capable of doing things, though it's not so good at multitasking. It is capable of doing one intense thing and smaller, less intense things.

I don't see why these people would have one except to have it as a novelty item, if they found a laptop that suits them. For me, this EeePC suits me, because I'm small in size just like the Eee. It fits perfectly on my lap without any teetertottering going on, it does everything I want it to, so I can reduce the amount of time on my desktop, in general, I got it, because overall it is perfect for me.

I also like how I've had XP installed on here for 9 months, and there are no slow-downs. It still boots up as fast, it still runs as fast, it still executes programs as fast, it still does everything like it was a fresh install.

But they probably don't need it.


RE: Question to netbook owners..
By consumerwhore on 9/25/2008 2:12:06 PM , Rating: 3
Ditch Adobe Reader and install Foxit Reader. Doing that will make the "reading PDFs" activity go from the "intense" category to the "smaller, less intense" category.


By 4wardtristan on 9/25/2008 6:09:33 PM , Rating: 2
second'ed

foxit takes 2secs to open, if that..


RE: Question to netbook owners..
By cochy on 9/26/2008 10:31:08 AM , Rating: 2
Kaspersky keeps warning me of major vulnerabilities in Foxit. You may want to look into that.


RE: Question to netbook owners..
By zolo111 on 9/25/2008 1:40:47 PM , Rating: 2
I'm in the market for the right netbook. I don't use my T61P that often ( Penryn 2.4Ghz, 3GB memory, 160GB 7200RPM, Nvidia Q 570M, 15.4" 1680X1050, 9-cell battery), I find myself using my desktop almost all the time. I'd like to sell my thinkpad, and get one of those sexy netbooks to use while I'm away for browsing internet, watching movies, torrenting. Instead of hauling the T61P with me, and not using all the power, since I'm so used to using my desktop with the 37" TV I got. The netbook will be used for light stuff only. I like the idea of netbooks.


RE: Question to netbook owners..
By Oregonian2 on 9/25/2008 2:27:18 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
What do you use them for? Two co-workers at my company own them and carry their netbooks in addition to their normal laptop, blackberry and other electronic items. I see them pull them out and turn them on but never actually do any work or anything productive on them.


Good question. Have you asked them?

Don't think they're typical. They may just want to look like they're working with a lot of stuff. :-)


A little misleading here...
By Homerboy on 9/25/08, Rating: 0
RE: A little misleading here...
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 9/25/2008 10:14:10 AM , Rating: 3
Second paragraph:

quote:
Nowhere is this more evident than on Amazon.com's laptop sales leader board according to Mac Rumors.


How many time do you need it specified? :)


RE: A little misleading here...
By Homerboy on 9/25/2008 12:14:04 PM , Rating: 2
Somewhere in the misleading headline :P


By foolsgambit11 on 9/25/2008 2:12:23 PM , Rating: 2
Interesting that there isn't a single Vista laptop in the top 20.... All Macs, Linux, and XP. I guess people are deciding that beefier /= better. I've got an $800, 14.1" HP that runs Vista fine, but I could see myself downgrading to a $400 Linux netbook without any impact on my mobile computing habits.

I kind of expected the Mac Rumors link would point that out. Instead, it only suggested Apple might lower prices on MacBooks to compete.

As an aside, could you imagine an Apple NetBook? I don't think I can in the foreseeable future.


Lack of Models
By Flunk on 9/25/2008 10:12:49 AM , Rating: 2
The majority of the "netbooks" (not a real industry term) only come in one or two models so a listing like this is misleading because of the great variety of more powerful notebook models available.

Also, the source of the data is suspect because Amazon allows sponsorship to affect ratings.




RE: Lack of Models
By Oregonian2 on 9/25/2008 2:34:30 PM , Rating: 2
Asus has a plethora of different base models and they've not been making them for long. MSI, even in a basic single unit has a large number of variations on their base model (each with a different order number each of which show up as a separate Amazon or newEgg item).

"Power" has nothing to do with what's called netbooks -- other than how long the batteries last per charge. It's not the point of the product class. It does steal away notebook sales though because they were the only alternative to the not-so-well addressed usage requirements (ultra-lights did technically, but didn't meet the cost requirements very well).


I would LOVE to see...
By Oralen on 9/25/2008 12:06:38 PM , Rating: 3
An Atom netbook whose battery life is not crippled by it's old chipset anymore, or by Intel's hardware limitations, or by Microsoft's XP Licensing schemes...

But they're both protecting their own more lucrative products...

So I guess I'll wait a little bit more, and see if things change a little.

That's the name of the game: "Version 2 will be better..."




Broken record
By therealnickdanger on 9/25/08, Rating: -1
RE: Broken record
By MrTeal on 9/25/2008 10:11:51 AM , Rating: 2
Why on earth would you want to play a game on a 7" netbook?


RE: Broken record
By ET on 9/25/2008 11:46:26 AM , Rating: 2
(Note: I'm not the poster of the previous message.)

I don't. I want to play a game on a 9" netbook.

But the real answer is: because it's portable. I can carry it anywhere and play anywhere. I don't get the exact gameplay experience of a desktop or big laptop, but I have a lot more opportunity to play, because the netbook will be with me in most places.

I have a Fujitsu P1510D, which is what a netbook was like a few years ago (that is, similar power to today's netbooks, but several times the price). I've used it for gaming, and it was a bad experience, because of the limited RAM and the awful Intel 915 graphics. But it was the difference between gaming at less than ideal conditions and not gaming at all. A better gaming netbook is definitely desirable in my book.