[mythtv-users] The $99 frontend is here. Is this too good to be true?

[James Stembridge]

2009/2/4 Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>:
> Pentium M processors are single core processors derived from the
> Pentium III.  The Atom preocessors are similar in clock rate to this
> chip, with a design closer to the (much much more efficient per-clock)
> Core series, and in some cases dual core.  So yeah, in addition to
> being much less power hungry, the Atoms are substantially faster than
> a Pentium M.  :)

These benchmarks seem to indicated that clock-for-clock the pentium-m is faster.

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3321&p=8