Intel: Atom is Eating into Celeron, and That's OK

[zodiacfml]

intel is fine with this since the netbook market is indeed a new market, only eating a small percentage of celerons.
its only notebook makers that are quite wary.

 

[ajcroteau]

I had an Acer Aspire One with Vista Ultimate and it had that crap GMA Intel garbage video card. It also had MS Office 2008 and VS 2008. I didn't think it was very slow at all. Unfortunately, i wasn't running AERO because it was disabled due to the limitations of the hardware which i'm sure there was most likely a hack...

That being said, yes it was slower than my Q6600 but not to the point where is unusable. I mean you guys seem to be making a mountain out of a mole hill with regards to being emotionally upset and distraught just because windows takes 5 seconds to load instead of 2 seconds. Maybe you guys need to start therapy or something...

 

[Guest]

Just wondering why people that truly know almost nothing of computer technology even bother to post?
Vista IS a resource hog, but it runs fine on most recent hardware, except netbooks, where it really runs slow. Which is why nearly all netbooks ship with XP or Linux now. However, to get same features with a much lower load, Windows 7 is your answer and retail release will be available in a few weeks.
My PC is long in the tooth (QX6700 with 4GB of 1066 Ram and Raptor HDD's in a RAID set) and takes almost a full minute to boot Vista, Win & boots in 27 seconds, Ubuntu boots in 22 seconds and XP boots in 9 seconds.