Samsung NC10 Netbook

Performance:

We have already used the Samsung NC10 netbook within our Linux Solid-State Drive Benchmarks article, but beyond that we carried out some additional tests comparing its performance to the Jetway NC92 + Intel Atom 230 system. The Samsung NC10 has its Intel Atom N270, 1GB of DDR2, and a 160GB FUJITSU MHZ2160BH G2 SATA hard drive. The Jetway NC92 IPC motherboard is equipped with the Intel Atom 230 at 1.60GHz, 2GB of DDR2 memory, and we were using a 300GB Seagate ST3300622AS hard drive. Each test system was using Ubuntu 8.10 with the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, GNOME 2.24.1, X Server 1.5.2, xf86-video-intel 2.4.1, Mesa 7.2, IcedTea6 1.3.1, and GCC 4.3.2.

We used the Phoronix Test Suite to carry out this Intel Atom comparison with the LAME MP3 encoding, Ogg encoding, timed ImageMagick compilation, Gzip compression, IOzone, SQLite, OpenSSL, GnuPG, RAMspeed, Sunflow Rendering System, Bork File Encrypter, Java SciMark, QGears2, and GtkPerf. These results are mostly for research purposes with one of the systems being a lightweight desktop and the other being a netbook.