8 - More performance

Always helps

The Eee PC is small & cheap, so naturally it loses out on the performance end. At the moment the EeePC clocks in with a single core at under 1GHz, hardly impressive. Intel’s Atom offers more power, and future dual-core Atom chips will no doubt lead to more powerful netbooks. Usually, that power isn’t necessary for a netbook, but the current Eee PC does struggle with decoding high resolution x264 encoded video and scaling it down.

While desktop PCs will always be a league ahead of small netbook devices, we should see more performance coming to the Eee PC in the near future. The continued shrinkage of transistors can only benefit netbooks such as the Eee PC, which means chips such as Intel's Atom will be more powerful and produce less heat in the future.

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