wow, now i understand, thank you for the answer. Keep doing the great job at JKontherun.

Cheers,

Carlos

Carlos, the Intel Atom in today’s netbooks aren’t dual core. You’re seeing “two” CPUs due to the Atom’s Hyperthreading capability which can handle two threads at one time.

Kevin,

I just bought an Acer Aspire One, it comes with an Atom Processor 270. When I checked the device manager windows XP recognized two processors, that means that the Atom 270 is a dual core, or am I mistaken?

Far from a processor expert here, but I’d think at this point making a dual-core version of a chip would be considered low hanging fruit, and would not greatly detract from Intel’s further development in other areas, yet provide a whole new product line with a different marketshare to eat up.

Like raising the ride height on a sedan, giving it a wagon rear end and calling it a “brand new crossover SUV that drives like a car and gets great mileage!”

I hope to see a dual core netbook soon – How about at the January Apple Event?

It doesn’t matter if the CPU has one or two cores as long as there is a way to switch off one of the cores when it’s not needed.

Unplugged from the mains you’d run one core by default, with the option to bring in the other as needed.

You’d then have the best of both worlds.

I got info from a OEM…

Not going to netbooks:

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/09/dual-core-atom-on-netbook.html