Remember Haleron? They’re the company that surprised and kind of horrified the world a few weeks ago with the announcement of the Swordfish Net102 netbook that sports two separate Intel Atom N270 processors. Not a dual core CPU — two separate CPUs sucking up your power and most likely not talking to one another properly to actually help improve performance….

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The Intel Atom N270 and N280 processors found in many netbooks support a feature called hyperthreading which causes the Windows Task Manager to report that you’ve got a dual core CPU even when you don’t. If you really want a dual core Atom chip you’re going to have to look to the Atom 330, which is designed for desktops, not…

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