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curious in VA   09-07-2009 at 03:36:47 AM

I resently clicked on Task Manager on my HP Mini-10 and under Performance I saw TWO chards for CPU Usage. I then went to control panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager - processors and there were TWO separate listings for the INTEL Atom N270. I have since checked several other netbooks and I see the same thing. Is this a bug in the Windows XP Home for netbooks, or something else?
Thanks, curious in VA.

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GOD_OF_GAMES   09-07-2009 at 05:57:53 AM
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i just got a ASUS N10 i saw this as well i falt Atom CPUs are only 1 core

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creativename   09-07-2009 at 08:01:42 AM
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I'd guess it looks like this because Atom uses Hyperthreading, so one core looks like 2 in that respect. Not sure if procs with multithreading actually look like multi-core in windows, so not positive...

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Bronze Laptops badge lostandwandering   09-07-2009 at 06:33:28 PM
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^Yes. A Pentium 4 with HT would show up the same way in device manager. Sorry to burst your bubble but the N270 is only a single core Atom. There is only one dual core Atom available (the 330) and I don't think Intel is allowing it to be used in netbooks yet.

 

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Message edited by lostandwandering on 09-07-2009 at 06:35:38 PM
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curious in VA   09-07-2009 at 07:35:09 PM
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More than anything else, Iwas really PUZZLED! The hyperthreading explanation seems reasonable. No bubble burst, I "knew" that the N270 was single core, I just did not understand why both Task Manager and Device Manager were reporting TWO processors.
Thanks for the explanation!
Curious in VA (curiosity satisfied!)

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