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It was a very conservative estimate based off of multi-threaded workloads where the Atom's Hyper-Threading can help. In single-threaded tasks the old Athlon 64 is likely more than twice the performance of an Atom. Without anything concrete to test I didn't want to go too far.

RE: Athlon 64 3500+ around 30% faster (1,3X) than the Intel Atom N280? by JarredWalton on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sorry just asking becauce I recommended to a friend of mine not to bother with 200-300 euro netbooks based on Atom CPUs but instead to buy something like HP 550 (300 euro) or Acer Extensa 5630Z (400 euro) Since a 64 3500+ is like something a Pentium 4 650 (3,4Ghz) or even faster than a Pentium 4 660 in some things (like games) and a 650 has nearly 2x the power of a 2,2Ghz Pentium4(A), and N280 is not faster overall than a 2,2Ghz Pentium4(A) (it is a little bit faster in some thing but also a little bit slower in others) Shouldn't the 3500+ has 2X the power of N280?

Athlon 64 3500+ around 30% faster (1,3X) than the Intel Atom N280? by MODEL3 on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

RE: Athlon 64 3500+ around 30% faster (1,3X) than the Intel Atom N280? by JarredWalton on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

When i said: and N280 is not faster overall than a 2,2Ghz Pentium4(A) (it is a little bit faster in some thing but also a little bit slower in others (something like +20%/-20%) I meant in real life applications that support multi-threaded tasks, otherwise for single-threaded applications the 2,2Ghz Pentium4(A) should be nearly always faster. So I think that the labeling of "2X faster" of Athlon 64 3500+ in real life applications is better characterization. I'm just guessing, I am not sure (maybe in a future review will see what a Atom N280 can do)

RE:RE:Athlon 64 3500+ around 30% faster (1,3X) than the Intel Atom N280? by MODEL3 on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Since the 2,2Ghz Pentium4(A)supports multi-threading I correct: I meant in real life applications that support multi-threaded tasks, otherwise for single-threaded applications the Athlon 64 3500+ should be nearly always faster than 2X.

RE:RE:RE:Athlon 64 3500+ around 30% faster (1,3X) than the Intel Atom N280? by MODEL3 on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Thanks Jarred, Otherwise, my friend would killed me if he found out that my advice cost him 100$ more for zero performance inprovement

RE(X4):Athlon 64 3500+ around 30% faster (1,3X) than the Intel Atom N280 by MODEL3 on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

I dont know if either of them is in stock, but Best Buy has two really cheap laptops listed in their ad this week. 1. For 299.00 they list a Toshiba single core celeron, 2gb ram and Vista Basic. 2. For 399.00 they list a Dell dual core pentium, 4gb of ram, and Vista premium. These are prices that people used to stand in line on Black Friday to get.

cheap laptops by frozentundra123456 on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Sorry, just looked at the best buy site again. The 399.00 laptop was an HP, not Dell, but the specs I listed were correct. Anyway, still a good name brand.

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I use Thunderbird, and their spam filtering works great. I get about 20 spam email messages per day (including some from TigerDirect, though they're not daily). They're automatically deleted for me.

RE: TigerDirect and SPAM by JarredWalton on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Please, do yourself a favor and never order anything from TigerDirect. I regret the day that I ordered something from them, because I've been deluged with spam ever since. It was the most expensive $5 savings ever. I think AnandTech should do its readers a service and not include them as a retailer in these articles.

TigerDirect and SPAM by gobaers on Wednesday, July 29, 2009