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Originally Posted by speculatrix View Post
the problem with atom, as anyone who's actually read anything about it, is the support chipset as they've basically been using modified desktop/laptop stuff . now that Poulsbo aka US15W chips are being used, expect the power figures to be much much better.
Still nowhere near as good as ARM chips, though, especially at idle.

We might be able to talk when they start shipping SoC variants, but I highly doubt it.
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