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This is insanely small for such a high powered processor.
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Nickswitz wrote:This is insanely small for such a high powered processor.
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Yeah, I've heard of it. Most "netbooks" are powered by the Atom.

Now, I've recently come across some old Pentium II processors, and I've handled modern dual core CPUs - the former, literally orders of magnitude less powerful than the latter, is much, much bigger also - bigger in length and width (not depth) than my cell phone, which just might be more powerful than the PCs that might have powered to boot! Just amazing to see.
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It is impressive to see how much things have progressed in what? 20 years or so, probably less
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