Questions about Intel Atom and Intel Celeron

[chibicitiberiu]

I'm planning on purchasing a laptop soon, so I searched in some local stores to see what is on the market. I found some pretty cheap laptops with the processor Intel Atom. What about it, I never heard of it? Is it good? How is it compared to an Intel Core or Intel P4 (the one I have on my computer)?

And also some of the cheap laptops had Intel Celeron. How is Celeron compared to Intel Core or Intel P4?

Should I go for one of these laptops, or buy a more expensive Intel Core (or Intel Core 2)?

[edit] I have one more question about these 2 processors: do they use the same assembly language as Intel Pentium and Intel Core? Will any operating system and any software that works on Pentium&Core work on these 2?

 

[PohTayToez]

The Intel Atom is the processor generally found in netbooks (ultraportable laptops). It isn't very fast compared to a C2D but it uses much less power and doesn't put out a lot of heat making it ideal for smaller laptops.

Celerons are just cheaper, slower versions of Pentiums.

 

[chibicitiberiu]

The Intel Atom is the processor generally found in netbooks (ultraportable laptops). It isn't very fast compared to a C2D but it uses much less power and doesn't put out a lot of heat making it ideal for smaller laptops.

Celerons are just cheaper, slower versions of Pentiums.

Thanks for the answer.

But the Atom uses the same assembly language, is it similar to Pentium? Most laptops that had this processor were 'Eee PCs', and had a linux distro as the OS. Does standard windows even work on this computer? Or any operating system that would work on a standard Pentium/Core PC?

 

[bomberboysk]

Thanks for the answer.

But the Atom uses the same assembly language, is it similar to Pentium? Most laptops that had this processor were 'Eee PCs', and had a linux distro as the OS. Does standard windows even work on this computer? Or any operating system that would work on a standard Pentium/Core PC?

It is an in order CPU, about half the speed of a "celeron" that is based off a core 2 duo clock for clock. Those "eee pc's" are netbooks, not notebooks.

 

[Shane]

about half the speed of a "celeron" that is based off a core 2 duo clock for clock. Those "eee pc's" are netbooks, not notebooks.

Yeah i read it's about half the speed of a celly,But its actually quite fast considering its only 1.6Ghz and Single core, Well my N270 Atom is anyway in my Net book but I'm really happy with it.
As long as you're not trying to run anything too demanding then its fine.

I hear the newer atoms are Dual core? But i think they would use more power.

 

[PohTayToez]

There are dual core Atom 300's, but they've only been used in desktops so far. Any atom can run any 32-bit OS (i.e. Windows XP or Vista 32 Bit), but only the Atom 300's have x86-64 architecture allowing for 64 bit operating systems.

 

[Shane]

Im confused to why Intel did not make the first Atoms 64bit anyway to be honest.

 

[bomberboysk]

Thanks for the answer.

But the Atom uses the same assembly language, is it similar to Pentium? Most laptops that had this processor were 'Eee PCs', and had a linux distro as the OS. Does standard windows even work on this computer? Or any operating system that would work on a standard Pentium/Core PC?

Yeah i read it's about half the speed of a celly,But its actually quite fast considering its only 1.6Ghz and Single core, Well my N270 Atom is anyway in my Net book but I'm really happy with it.
As long as you're not trying to run anything too demanding then its fine.

I hear the newer atoms are Dual core? But i think they would use more power.

Considering how low of power they use... I wonder how long it is til we see 8 core atom's at like 2Ghz in a standard notebook... Would prolly only use <20 watts