Comments on: Intel Atom rival ships; larger Netbooks coming?

Via finally begins commercial shipments of its Intel-compatible Nano processor, and a Via executive says demand for larger Netbooks is strong.

[buggermenot]

Is it just me or is a larger Netbook a laptop?

[dude7895]

Its not you.

[samjohnston]

Size doesn't matter. 'Note'books pertain to size - 'Net'books are about connectivity and relying on the Internet for storage and computation (aka cloud computing).

Sam
http://samj.net/

[streamline35]

Almost. I think they only difference they are talking about is the super low power/low cost type laptop. But I agree, I really don't see the advantage once it passes 11 inches or so.

[stgenerations]

There seems to be some confusion among consumers. VIA processors are horrible. Plain and simple fact. VIA boards are horrible. Plain and simple fact. So why would anyone purchase these netbooks with VIA in them? Because HP has a state or local contract. That's all. HP needs to get with the program and start using Intel Atom or Intel's next gen Atom. What it called again?

[-pekr-]

stgenerations, there is no confusion, just one single fact - you are an Intel fanboy. You should get your acts together. I use VIA chipset boards and also VIA cpus for quite a long time. What VIA boards are you talking about? HP surely has their own one, just utilising VIA. You also seem to be ignoring the fact, that back at the very unglory times of PIV which were heat pumps :-), it was VIA who started mini-itx platform. It is cool that Intel rethought their aproach and that we are able to enjoy Atom, but stop spitting on VIA just because you don't like it. Those who use it are taking their own choices and don't need advices as yours!

[wlau]

Industry friends who has played with the Nano sample all claim it leaves Atom in the dust. The more advanced pipeline really shows a performance difference on single core and lower clock rate CPUs. It's true power consumption is a bit higher. I may be the only one think this way but I tested the 2133 with C7 and the Acer Atom based system, and I couldn't notice any difference in terms of performance by running programs (not running benchmark). However, when I played video files such as DivX and MPEG-4 files, the 2133 did a great job while the Acer Atom dropped frame like crazy. I hope and think Nano should perform even better. I am not pro Intel or Via but glad to see there will be an additional worhty competitor in the market for this segment of products.