Ubuntu and the Intel Atom 330 Processor

[Michael Haney]

Hi, all!  I'm thinking of building myself a small desktop system using
a rather inexpensive ITX-form factor mobo-CPU combo from Newegg which
has the Intel Atom 330 processor.  This is the 2GHz dual-core Intel
Atom, the one that's only just now starting to show up in netbooks and
a new nettop from Acer.  Its got 2 SATA, 1 IDE, 4 external USB 2.0
ports plus a header for a front side ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 5.1
audio, the Intel GMA 950 GPU, but no PCIe just one 32-bit PCI slot.
It can support up to 2GB of RAM which for Ubuntu is more than plenty
enough.

I'm wondering, has anyone on this list had experience with Ubuntu
running on Intel Atom processors?  My current machine is an aging
1.2GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 1GB of RAM that I built myself long
ago.  It runs Ubuntu ok but its performance isn't the best especially
when using Flash which doesn't run all that great on Linux even on
high end machines.

The primary role of my desktop is to be my everyday machine.  That's
the machine I do all my emails, web browsing, music listening, DVD
watching and book writing on.  My laptop, which has more horses under
the hood, is my gaming and video conversion machine.  So, any
suggestions or thoughts?  I'm not sure when I'll be building this.  I
don't have a lot of $$$ or I'd get a higher end machine to run Ubuntu
or just go Mac.

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