

We attended Intel's cooling presentation this morning.








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RE: That explains it
By Dradien on 9/14/2011 10:54:01 PM , Rating: 0
I'm going to take a wild guess here and surmise that Atom wasn't designed to be used in:

Android Pads
HP Pads

Or any pads or gizmos or gadgets or wizbangs or whatever the hell you want without any form of active cooling. None of them even really have vents. Your comment is stupid and lacks foresight.

The only thing that strikes me as strange is why you defend a company that sticks a x86 processor that needs active cooling in a enclosed metal chassis and blames the customers for it.

Magpies it is.

RE: That explains it
By snakeInTheGrass on 9/15/11, Rating: -1
RE: That explains it
By Dradien on 9/15/2011 1:35:01 AM , Rating: 2
"No sh1t, sherlock, want to guess why none of them are using Intel chipsets?"

I'd wager that they weren't designed to? Atom and ARM are utterly different markets as of now, so I don't see where you're getting this idea it was made for crap like the iPad.

"But leave it to Intel to make snide comments on heat dissipation"

Maybe snide, but not unfounded. There are numerous reports of the MacBooks doing just what they are being snide about. Your anecdotal story about having three and none of them burned you doesn't prove anything. Three out of a ridiculous amount is such a small and insignificant number.

RE: That explains it
By Fritzr on 9/15/2011 5:56:56 AM , Rating: 5
Another anecdotal story was from Tony Swash a few weeks ago taking a swipe at Flash

Flash shuts his MacBook Pro down ... due to overheating

He assumed that Flash caused the overheating. He was wrong, the failure to properly cool the CPU caused the overheating.

RE: That explains it
By messele on 9/15/11, Rating: -1
RE: That explains it
By FITCamaro on 9/15/2011 7:25:08 AM , Rating: 2
Intel eventually wants to get Atom into those devices. But it realized it would need several years to get power usage down enough to compete with ARM.

As far as the troll responding to you, Atom uses more power and thus produces more heat because it is an x86 based CPU which is far more complex than an ARM CPU. It's benefits are that it can run x86 applications. Once Intel can shrink its manufacturing processes enough, it might be able to threaten ARM. And while Atom may not be in any tablets yet, it has been pretty damn successful in netbooks which get 10 hours of battery life.

