So? If the Aspire One you had was based of the 945 and N270 or a newer chipset and the N450/455 or the (even later) D/N 2x00 series chips, then this makes sense because those chipsets prioritize performance a little bit more. Also, the N450/455 and D/N 2x00 series chips are newer enough that they've got some of the performance properties of the N270 coupled with some of the power saving properties of the Atom Z series.
Anecdotally, Intel Atom has gotten totally insane, and I've got a device with the Z3470, which is a quad core SoC, that should have no problems running things like World of Warcraft. (I don't know if this has been confirmed, but I intend to try it on my own device in the near to medium distance future.) Without running things like WoW, the devices these days charge off of MicroUSB and get 10 hours of battery life while running regular desktop applications like PuTTY and Office 2013.
The N2x700 series, which appeared in the later AspireOnes and a few other of the only remaining netbooks in 2011 or so had reasonable battery life and from what I recall, okay performance, but they did this at the "cost" of being almost as big as a regular laptop, like an X Series ThinkPad.
Anecdotally, Intel Atom has gotten totally insane, and I've got a device with the Z3470, which is a quad core SoC, that should have no problems running things like World of Warcraft. (I don't know if this has been confirmed, but I intend to try it on my own device in the near to medium distance future.) Without running things like WoW, the devices these days charge off of MicroUSB and get 10 hours of battery life while running regular desktop applications like PuTTY and Office 2013.
The N2x700 series, which appeared in the later AspireOnes and a few other of the only remaining netbooks in 2011 or so had reasonable battery life and from what I recall, okay performance, but they did this at the "cost" of being almost as big as a regular laptop, like an X Series ThinkPad.