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Which would have better overall performance on a cheap (~$600) laptop; Intel Atom 330 with Nvidia ion or intel Pentium/Celeron with Intel graphics. I don't need 8 hour battery life and will hopefully be using this for programming/web browsing and occasionally light gaming.
Atom CPU does not necessarily mean a 10" netbook. Asus have announced the 1201 <something> with a 12" 1366x768 screen and reasonable sized keyboard using the ion platform (atom + nvidia 9400M) and I'm sure there will be more to follow. I'm in exactly the same situation.... I want a budget laptop with a decent screen and it looks like a choice between CULV (Acer timeline/Dell 13z etc) or ION – geocoin – 2009-12-18T15:14:58.067
1a 12" display and a (maybe more reasonably, but still) crammed keyboard isn't the ideal work envirnoment ... but everyone to their own. – None – 2009-12-18T15:25:33.273