1.6ghz atom slow?

[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?

 

[ShawnD1]

It has about 1/8 as many transistors as a Core 2 Duo and it's running at half the frequency. Yeah that sounds about right.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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!

 

[JEDI]

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.

i have a 120gig hd

 

[Arkaign]

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!

Opera is tiny, just a shade over 5mb for the current/full-featured version.

It's very compatible in my experience. I keep it as my backup browser in case FF goes goofy on me. I like Chrome as far as performance, but I don't really like the layout.

 

[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....

 

[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.

 

[Acanthus]

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....

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.

 

[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)

 

[faxon]

tr using opera. i use it on my 3G phone running windows mobile with an unknown, but probably insignificant quantity of ram (it's a blackjack 2 from samsung). its 10 times faster, both in load times and responsiveness, vs IE mobile. you should notice similar improvements on a slow desktop over a conventional browser. the entire install only took up a few megs of the 128mb of main system memory (my onboard disk so to speak), so i installed it directly to the phone instead of to my 4GB micro SD card i have in it for pics and video recording.

 

[Acanthus]

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)

I knew this but didn't want to shine a bad light on Atom.

It's very good for its intended purpose, however PIII, P-M, and Core2 will stomp an Atom clock for clock (and rightfully so, they consume a tremendous amount of energy by comparison).

 

[Arkaign]

Acanthus is right on.

Try Chrome and Opera, and get some additional ram, 2 GB should be plenty. At least for single-core Atoms, XP is usually the best bet. If you want, you could make a stripped XP Pro SP3 install using Nlite. I played around with it, and made a usable XP Home system out of an old P3 550 / 192MB PC100 SDRAM / 20.4G Hard Drive, albeit without AV / Spyware protection (it was on offline system for an elementary student and his pre-K sister to bang around on).

 

[Schmide]

What virus checker do you have? Some do a horrible job actively scanning JavaScript.

 

[Markfw]

I have a Samsung N120 with an Atom, and its great ! But I use Mozilla and gmail, and that could be why mine is so zippy.

 

[renozi]

I have a Dell Mini 10v with 2GB of ram and 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD with Firefox and Windows 7RTM and it feels faster than any laptop I've used before. I mean I haven't used those 17inch desktop replacement laptops but this is a netbook we're talking about.
Sorry to say to the OP but the regular Mini 10 has its ram soldered on so you can't upgrade it. This is why I bought a 10v.

 

[soccerballtux]

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.

Win7 was definitely faster than Vista. By about 10 miles.

This netbook is lighting fast with 2GB. Running Aero with transparency disabled and Win7. Love it.

Whatever the optimization is that they did with Win7, it's a heck of a lot faster (for low performance processor systems) than Vista.

 

[tommo123]

i have win7rc on a nc10 with opera 10 beta - opera 9 was fine too. 24 tabs open and alls fine. 2gb of ram in there though