<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="content">Dell has really come into its own in the past few years. Shedding the image (and fur?) of yet another cheap PC OEM, Dell has tried to make design a more important part of its manufacturing as of late. Not every design is a win, but the zino HD appears to be the first nettop styled to have mass market appeal.<br /> </span><span class="content">As soon as Dell announced the zino HD I was bombarded with emails. Not for a review of the system, but for a review of the processors inside the machine. <br /> </span></span><span class="content"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">The 2650e is a single-core K8 based Socket-AM2/AM2+ processor that runs at 1.6GHz. It&rsquo;s got 512KB of L2 cache and the rest of the feature set of the older K8 AM2 processors. As an AM2 chip it&rsquo;s DDR2 only and physically won&rsquo;t fit or work in an AM3 motherboard. Keep that in mind before you go sticking one of these where it doesn&rsquo;t belong.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Based on its specs, the Athlon 2650e is a near perfect competitor for Intel&rsquo;s Atom. The newly announced D510 runs at 1.66GHz (close enough), but is an in-order architecture with Hyper Threading. Bottom line? The Athlon 2650e should be faster in single threaded apps, but slower in multitasking/multithreaded applications. Great. Atom boasts a lower total TDP as well. <br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="content">The Athlon X2 3250e fixes the 2650e&rsquo;s biggest shortcoming by adding a second core. The clock speed drops a bit to 1.5GHz, but the rest of the specs stay the same. TDP goes up from 15W on the 2650e to 22W for the 3250e. </span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3703">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>