Originally posted by: Arkaign
Get more ram, it's dirt cheap. Will help for sure. Opera also seems to be a great browser for really low-end setups like netbooks.
Originally posted by: Bandit1
I have the 1.6 setup with xp sp3 too.With 1gb ram upgrade +pagefile off(ssd drive),it really sped up but it was like that until i did this.I havent dabbled much past that yet,but i am sure it can be tweaked some.
Originally posted by: MODEL3
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Get more ram, it's dirt cheap. Will help for sure. Opera also seems to be a great browser for really low-end setups like netbooks.
Do you have experience with browsers?
I don't want to download every freakin browser in order to test them!
When i go to youtube it says that they will stop supporting my browser after a while (Did you guess what browser i have? )
I ONLY care for memory usage with 10-15 different processes (not 10-15 diffferent Tabs)
I searched the net and there are so many different opinions that the situation is "kookoo for cocoa puffs"
Sorry to the Originator!
Originally posted by: geokilla
Get more RAM and install Windows 7. People say Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP. You could also try to install a slimmed down Windows 7.
From what I've heard, the Atom is basically a tiny Pentium 4. I might be wrong though....
Originally posted by: geokilla
Get more RAM and install Windows 7. People say Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP. You could also try to install a slimmed down Windows 7.
From what I've heard, the Atom is basically a tiny Pentium 4. I might be wrong though....
Originally posted by: JEDI
winxp sp3
ex: in yahoo mail, i click on message check box to mark for deletion. theres lag as im clicking down the list.
is this normal for a 1.6ghz atom?
It's actually architecturally similar to a pentium 3, but it even has a few disadvantages when compared to a PIII, like in-order processing.
Originally posted by: Fox5
Originally posted by: JEDI
winxp sp3
ex: in yahoo mail, i click on message check box to mark for deletion. theres lag as im clicking down the list.
is this normal for a 1.6ghz atom?
Time for you to switch to google chrome. You too model3, it's the fastest browser around. At this time though, I think firefox is the most memory conservative of all the up to date browsers, so if you're really memory strapped, it might be the better option.
Also, look up flashfire. (but don't trust it with any important data!)
It's actually architecturally similar to a pentium 3, but it even has a few disadvantages when compared to a PIII, like in-order processing.
It's architecturally similar to the original Pentium, prior to even the Pentium Pro, and more in line with when cpus were designated by numbers (486, 586, 686) than it is anything commonly thought of as a pentium. Oh, and it's got a fat SIMD FPU on it to give it a shot at doing media related tasks. IIRC, SSE ops are about the only area the Atom is competitive with Pentium M's in the same clock range.
(Pentium Pro, Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium M, and Core Duo are all from the same basic lineage with little changed between them)
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: geokilla
Get more RAM and install Windows 7. People say Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP. You could also try to install a slimmed down Windows 7.
From what I've heard, the Atom is basically a tiny Pentium 4. I might be wrong though....
Sadly, this is probably not a wise idea. Win7 works very well on medium to high end hardware, but somewhat poorly on older setups, similar to how Vista performed. Even with more ram, a 1.6 Atom single-core is too weak for a satisfactory Win7 experience. Of course, it may be one of the later dual-core Atoms? The benchmarks I've seen show the Atom to have roughly half of the per-clock performance of the Pentium M processors.