About time the atom-powered netbooks were always horrible to work with. Just leave them in NAS units and low-power file servers.

Atom has failed to improve in performance. The Atoms today are only 20-30% faster than those released 3 and a half years ago (released mid 2008). They should be 2-3x faster, not 20-30% faster.

And those silly handicaps that Intel placed on the platform: underperforming chipset with high power consumption, poor graphics, graphics limited in resolution... making their use when attached to secondary external displays very poor, and the relatively high price of the Atom platform. Intel deserves to hurt for product mismanagement.

Intel tried so hard to make sure Atom didnt cannibalize its premium laptop chipsets that it was overzealous in keeping Atom down. It believed there was no competition and that it had a monopoly on netbook x86, and ARM (and tablets) were no threat. How vainglorious.

If Atom has failed, Intel has failed. AMD has a great netbook chipset. ARM has stepped into the low-power market.

Let heads roll!

since tablets arise, netbook's market goes smaller so this is maybe a realistic way for lenovo

I can`t say I will miss the atom based lenovo`s
The AMD based Lenovo netbooks are great though..
I have no idea who`s alienware that is.... I most certainly WAS NOT watching movies or sharing files.

to me cedar trial looks great on paper, i havent seen the performance numbers, although on the graphics front im sure a c-50 would still win, ill go look for a n2600 review and get back, dual core quad thread has to count for something

edit: looked it up and it barely beats the c-60 in cinebench cpu test, i expected better intel

my fathers nettop computer has an atom 330 cpu and it runs windows 7 32bit just okay for him. the atom gets a WHI score of 3.3. atoms are okay for basic stuff. i would freak out if i had to use it for more than light web browsing or watching a video that is more than 720p