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

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM, James Stembridge <jstembridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.  :)
>

I would compare Atom to a 486 that has been increased in frequency to
1.8GHz using current transistor technology. The atom cpu does not do
out of order execution of instructions like current x86 processors do.


John