FYI (re: consumer Atom) Intel have just started taking Atom seriously again, after majorly neglecting it for the previous 5 years. The current Silvermont/Bay Trail is twice as fast as the last, bringing C2D+ performance (eg 2010 MBA) with tablet thermals and battery life. It will now be on Intel's primary process too, so the days of Atom universally sucking are over (thanks ARM).
Offtopic; Can you point me to a laptop with that? I use a 2010 MBA all the time and if I could get something for the price of an atom with that performance...
See UMPCportal. My favourite is the Asus T100, but it suffers from the problem with most of the current crop of Bay Trail-T devices; 2GB of soldered RAM. 64GB model will be around for $300 around black friday. The HP Pavillion x2 should have 4GB, but is much pricier.
IMO the Acer C720 chromebook is the best deal around currently; just put linux on it and replace the 16GB SSD with a larger one, performance should be even better than the 2010 MBA AFAICT.
Things are definitely starting to get very interesting though, I'll be keeping a close eye on devices released in the next 6mo.
A bunch of tablets are out with the new chips, I'm typing this on a Dell Venue 8 Pro. Acer or ASUS have a 10" model with a keyboard dock to make a proper clamshell.
