Comparing the Atom processor to the latest dual core and more processors is just simply useless.
Much more I had preferred to see a comparison of the Atom processor to P4&P3, 800Mhz to 1,6Ghz from both Intel and AMD.
Due to the faster memory the Atom would probably turn out to be a winner there!
The Atom is perfect for running under Win XP and Linux, and like mentioned for chat/small game or web page servers, download platform, or to do the basic tasks of skype, internet, and editing html and text documents.
It'd also be nice to have a futuremark end-result, seeing that the atom only goes together with the Intel G950 (or was it 945?).
Further, remarks about the Sempron LE-1100 is basically useless, yes only on idle the difference is little, but noone would prefer the sempron above the Atom (power wise speaking). The extra cost of an atom processor over the LE-1000 is recovered in a matter of running the pc for less then a month.
the article mainly had the desktop section in mind when reviewing the Atom, and forgot that for a notebook this processor is very near to the perfect processor.
I want to wait until Intel has the guts to manufacture the G950 and Atom, and N/S-Bridge all in one less then 20WTDP package. That' give notebook manufacturers the option of manufacturing a laptop with more then 10 hours of battery.