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

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:01 AM, James Stembridge <jstembridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>:
>> PCI nvidia card), but IMO the SD ship has sailed-- I'd rather get an
>> Atom board and get more power, smaller form factor, and drastically
>> reduced power consumption.
>
> Are any of the Atom processors actually more powerful than a 1.8ghz pentium-m?
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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.  :)

Robert