Intel Atom N450 chip for netbooks
Despite the development of new devices in the world of fashion, such as apple iPad, netbook is one of the fastest growing in the notebook segment, continue, according to research firm DisplaySearch. The report in December 2009, the company predicts that sales of what he called a “mini-notes 39.7 million from 16.4 million units in 2008, increased by the end of 2010, which sold one of five laptops.
Many of the latest netbook with Intel Atom N450, the possibility of a laptop, well-equipped to function better, and extend battery life. Call Pine Road, began in the development of Intel, Atom N450 delivery in January and represents a major redesign of the previous version of the processor Atom N270.
What can you expect from this chip? In my tests, N450 offers a yield of 28% better processor and a 20% increase in computing power compared to the N270.
Atom N450 has some similarities with its predecessor, and a single core processor, a pair of simultaneous streams of instructions and 512 KB external cache for temporary storage of frequently used data and instructions. However, N450 has 123 million transistors – more than twice N270 – and can take advantage of RAM 667 MHz, 533 MHz front N270 systems.
N450 must be delivered to wait for a new manager has access to records that the efficient exchange of data to and from the processor and data prefetching when the processor does not control the necessary data. As a result, the processor less time spinning and more time.
N450 has two new regime of sleep, which, to use less electricity, as well as data cache Awesome chip for low-power RAM passed, when you go to sleep to reduce battery consumption. According to Intel, consumed, when the system is used, N450 7 watts of energy (through more than one child, the night light) – 16 fewer than half of the N270 in watts. This applies not only batteries but also reduces the need for cooling the processor.
Together with HM-10, Intel Express, a package about as big as a thumb nail, which held two chip area of less than 60% of N270-Chip package of three. Thus, N450 can be pressed into small places and can lead to more creative and subtle hardware designs. Intel expects that will be something like 80 different devices that use the available years Atom N450.
Four Netbooks – I tested featured four netbooks with chips N450: Fujitsu LifeBook MH380, Acer Aspire One 532H, HP Mini 5102 and MSI Wind U135.
At first glance, four drops of water, with similar – though not identical – Hardware: 1,6 GHz Atom N450, 1GB RAM, Intel GMA 3150 card, 10,1-In. The screen and webcam. In fact, the only difference being that while the HP Mini 5102 will have a 160 GB hard drive 250 GB hard drives others. In addition, HP Mini offers four standard batteries, but others come from six batteries. All of them from each other in a few ounces and fractions of inches and has three USB ports for connecting an external monitor, network, audio and flash card reader.
Unfortunately, these Netbooks in the negotiations with Microsoft, Windows 7 Basement for beginners, this means that you can share the Internet connection to a domain, or use one of the machines as a network bridge. Not for beginners, you can also change the desktop wallpaper, but it is not compatible with multiple monitors. Finally, it comes with Windows Media Center with an external TV tuner card was not visible.
Despite the similarities, saying the differences between them.
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