On 10/15/2013 3:05 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > I don't know how VIA C7 CPUs stack up against the Intel Atom CPUs in terms > of performance, but they're low power consuming x86 processors. And > there's the VIA Padlock [0] security/encryption engine. I think the Atoms pretty much beat the living daylights out of the C7 stuff, which were based on an architecture many generations old. some of the core I3/i5 laptop chips are very low power, too, and nearly as powerful as modern 2-4 core desktop processors.. the current 'Pentiums' are somewhere in between the Atom and the low end of the Core line. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast