[dba-Tech] How fast is Atom processor?

Hi Jim

Thanks. Yes, I've noticed that many comes with 2 GB of ram and a decent screen, though small. But given the size and the runtime per battery charge I imagine you might carry it with you at occasions where you normally would not.

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 04-12-2009 17:42:44 >>>
I have a friend whose daughter who uses a netbooks for doing her
'cartooning'. She carries it around with her school books and when she has a
few moments uses a platic tip pen and switches the screen to tablet mode and
does some sketching... she is very talented.

In relationship to the ipod the computer is huge and it can runs apps the
ipods can not. It connectes to wireless so you're never out of touch, holds
a  massive amounts of tunes... great for tweeter fans etc. It can even run
Picassa and download pictures from the camera. I believe you can get these
computers with up to 2 GB of RAM and that should be more than enough for any
program.

I think its one big draw back is it is for 'young eyes' but it sure is a lot
easier to pack around than a laptop.

Jim


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:41 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] How fast is Atom processor?

We recently had a thread on the OT list that touched on that subject
and someone, I know who it is but won't name names since I haven't
asked his permission, commented that he has an HP Netbook on which he
runs Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server Express and
they run at an acceptable level of performance to him. Hopefully he
will reply here with some more details. He mentioned the screen size
being an issue and that he connects to an external monitor with it to
get around that problem when he needs more screen space. I think it
might someone depend on what you are used to and what you find
acceptable for performance.

Prior to reading that post there I was thinking that they were only
good for browsing etc. My company has one Senior manager that uses a
Netbook and he has had issues several times with not being able to
open some large spreadsheets. He does work with some REALLY LARGE
spreadsheets though.

GK

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm wondering if the small and cheap netbook machines with an Atom
processor are useful for any kind of development work? Respecting the small
screen of course. Or are they just toys for browsing the web and reading
e-mails?
>
> The info to locate tells similar stories, that it is comparable to an 800
MHz/1 GHz 130 nm Pentium-M. That doesn't sound impressive compared to my
slowest workstation with Pentium 4, 2.2 GHz.
> But do any of you have any practical experience with these machines?
>
> /gustav