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Originally Posted by wallcraft
They are low power for Intel chipsets, but don't yet compare to ARM chipsets. Atom is 3-5 W vs < 1 W for ARM. The ARM chips can also suspend to a very low power state, Intel's "Moorestown” version of the Atom (due later this year) is supposed to drastically reduce idle power in an attempt to compete.
However, as you say, with a 10" screen the screen might dominate the power budget. If so, then Atom would make sense.
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It's not the CPU that eats most of the power, it's the rest of the machine, first and foremost your
LCD display hence the push for low-power alternatives (OLEDs.)