Software SetupMSI Wind U135 uses Intel's latest Pinetrail platform. The ATOM N450 CPU is clocked at 166x10 = 1.66GHz with 512K of L2 cache. The single core CPU supports HT technology. The NM10 chipset reduces the number of chips from the three in the previous 945GSE to just two.
The U135 is loaded with Windows 7 Starter edition as its operating system. The hardware information in Device Manager:
The default factory-loaded desktop software
Upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit edition. Windows 7 performance benchmark gives this score:
CPU performance benchmarksSuper PI 1M => 1m 50.714s
CPUMARK99 => 115
Nuclearus Multi Core => 1704
Fritz Chess Benchmark => 1.65/791
CrystalMark 2004R3 => 27926
CINEBENCH R10
1 CPU => 559
x CPU => 861
OpenGL => 291
The N450 CPU's performance is about the same as the previous N280 and both are clocked at 1.66GHz. I am personally not too surprised that there has been no major improvement in CPU performance. The OpenGL scores were around the same as 945GSE as well. The 3MARK2003 results were also in the 700 range just like the 945GSE.