On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:56 AM, John Gardner wrote: > My mistake - =A0It's an Atom 450 1.66 GHz, W7SE x32. Then I am not surprised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom "The performance of a single core Atom is about half that of a Pentium M of the same clock rate." Dual core atom is not that faster either. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .