Is hybrid valuable?

[DjScribbles]

So, I've gone ahead and implemented kinect control into our robot, right away I noticed a big problem that I just want to make people aware of:

The Intel Atom processor (or at least the one in our netbook) was struggling quite badly to keep up with the kinect processing. Luckily we have a semi modern laptop (and a second computer that I can switch to for programming) to use as our driverstation.

Using our DS which is equivalent to this (it's got 1gig ram and a N570(1.66GHz)) I was seeing approximately 0.5-1.0 second delay in things like throttle control. Switching to the other computer (it's got a intel core2duo, but don't know the specs) it works significantly better.

I'm pretty excited to see how this works this weekend (we'll be in Traverse City MI, team 2474), as we've only had about 5 minutes of test time so far