[geeks] Intel Atom MB - Initial Impressions

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:50:23AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> >Date: 2008/06/11 Wed AM 11:48:20 EDT
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Intel Atom MB - Initial Impressions
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >For Amy's machine, we just always build her system around an Intel board
> >and chip and never have problems.
> 
> For non-professional use (i.e. home/desktop use) I agree, Intel MB & Chips *just work* - most other MB companies I've seen either play the "see how cheap I can make a MB" game or they are giving the user enough rope to fry their CPU/RAM with overclocking. Intel is really the more conservative, and in some ways, cost-effective solution, many times. If you are looking for performance/price extremes, I wouldn't look at Intel - it's not their strength - IMHO.
>
Isn't it odd that for the atom motherboard from the original post the
NIC is a 10/100MBit made by Realtek? Is that a cost saving thing on
Intel's behalf perhaps?

Cheers,
Jonathan