Despite what many other commenters will say, no, it isn't a power hog compared to ARM. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Intel/AMD/VIA don't yet offer processors that have as low power as ARM (although some are pretty power/performance efficient depending on your workload), but they will within the next year for smartphones and tablets. On modern manufacturing processes the "x86 tax" becomes almost non-existant.
Atom has 64-bit support built in, and Intel disables it on most parts to a) to provide market segmentation and b) to save a bit of power. If MS had made Win7 64-bit only, Intel simply would have flipped the switch and sold the Atoms as 64-bit.
Thank you, I will check this out.
Yes, you could have stopped after the word "think".
We have and use VNC. It's supported and we depend on it. I did install and enable unsupported VNC clients like TightVNC to try to get some more speed. NX is the next step. You can argue whether or not users should be installing potentially insecure networking servers, and you can argue about productivity.
When working remotely everything is over VPN anyway.
I work for a large corporation that uses VNC,and several years ago I tried to install NX at work, hoping to get a speed boost when working remotely. Unfortunately, the creation of a user "nx" was required. I'm not in the IT department, I don't have root access, and they IT department had no interest in deploying NX. So I gave up.
I saw this announcement and hoped that an "nx" user would no longer be required, but it appears this is still necessary. If I could get it installed and it actually worked better I know the other engineers would jump on it and eventually IT would be forced to support it.
Anyone have a workaround?
Completely disagree. A CompE master's gets you nothing except a bit of a pay increase (but it will take years before the increase makes up for the year(s) you could have been working with a BS), and many many microprocessor designers have a BS.
2. Never use, or even think of, the word "goddess" in reference to yourself or other women.
But this ISN'T that old, craptastic, power-hungry chipset used by most Atom netbooks. It's a new chipset code-named Poulsbo designed specifically to go with Atom. Quoting a tomshardware.com article:
"The Atom Z500 has a TDP that varies between 0.85 W (for the 800 MHz version without HyperThreading) and 2.64 W (for the 1.86 GHz model with HyperThreading enabled). The SCH consumes approximately 2.3 W in its most evolved version, which brings the SCH + CPU together to under 5 W. By comparison with existing solutions, thatâ(TM)s obviously a big step forward â" the Via Nano, for example, is announced at 25 W for the 1.8 GHz version and a Celeron-M ULV at 5 W at 900 MHz."
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-cpu,1947-3.html
In addition, the Atom Z-series/Poulsbo combo supports the C6 idle power state where the CPU saves away its architectural state in a small SRAM which remains powered up while the rest of the CPU shuts off entirely. Idle power for the processor is somewhere from
The biggest known downside to this chipset is that it supports 1 GB of RAM max.
From what I've read elsewhere, the chipset involved does have video decode acceleration support. After googling, anandtech.com has an article that says that the chipset can support 1080i and 720p decode. A tomshardware.com article says that it can do hardware decode of H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4, VC1, and WMV9 formats.
I wish you humans would leave me alone.
