This is temporary, but not THAT temporary

> Yup. But you again confusing gigahertz and speed. 1.6GHz Atom has speed like Sempron
@800MHz, not like Core Duo @1.6GHz.

I didn't get confused at all about it. I know exactly what a Atom processor is. With Vista
Home Basic I think it's more of a issue with disk speed and memory requirements, not CPU
requirements so much. Atom just takes the level of performance that exists with ULV and LV
cpus currently and takes down closer to ARM-land.

I could be wrong. I haven't used Vista much myself, beyond installing it in a VM (which worked
fine, except that is used all my memory) I know it's a pig, but people (believe it or not) are
running it on the EEE. That's a Celeron-M ULV running at 630mhz. The Atoms are more capable
then that by a good amount. 


You can see a preview of Vista running on a Atom system here:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/video-willcoms-d4-vist...

It's a bit of a dog, but it's nothing that can't be overcome. Engineering pre-release and all
that. And that's _now_ on a MID device, even low-end 'netbook's are going to be a bit faster.
My prediction is with new units being manufactured 12 months from now.