[ubuntu-in] Netbooks - suggestions and advise

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Kingsly John <member+ubuntu at kingsly.net> wrote:
> Not an "expert" so some of the terms might be wrong... but the overall
> differences are accurate.
>
> The way the instruction pipelining in the processor works is different.
> The Atom is closer to the Pentium processor than to the Core architecture
> used in other current processors.
>
> So code that is compiled with compiler flags optimised for one won't run
> as efficiently on the other.
>
> So the binaries in the netbook remix are built with flags optimised for the
> Atom/Pentium processor whereas the stock Ubuntu is built with flags optimised
> for the current generation processors.
>
> And it's not 4-processor cores, it's just a dual-core CPU, the two extra
> cores you are seeing are HT cores which allow multiple threads/processes to
> send instructions to the CPU simultaniously, and the processor will execute
> them whenever possible.
>

danke

so it would make sense to install UNR - am concerned at the out of the
box features, so will have to install all that.

hopefully will see an increase in battery time, but till then mint is doing good

thanks
ram