[geeks] PC-BIOS over serial

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:06:09AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>Anyone happen to know how well typical Atom machines do for
>low-to-midrange (i.e, nowhere near the bleeding edge) gaming?  Assume
>that the most demanding games any of the three are likely to be playing
>are Civ4 or HALO.

Poorly. They are basicly netbooks in a box.

The only real advantage is the dual core processor, but everything else
is the same. 

They do have a better chipset GMA-3500? than most netbooks, so it won't be
terrible.

You can look it up, there are plenty of sites dedicated to gaming on netbooks.

Geoff.

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