Too big for a netbook

Re: Not too big for a netbook

Well, I just got back from Walmart where I answered my own question. The 8.9" will play 720p WMV files!
The actual size is 1280 x 720, so the one is cropping it down a little to fit the 1024 x 600 display. When you go to full screen, it fills up just about the whole screen. At 29 fps I didn't notice any dropped frames. I played the vid straight from a usb flash drive.

The video I played was of my cousin flying his radio controlled foamie airplane in a large warehouse type of building. So there was lots of panning around to follow the airplane. The background was full of lights and truss beams in the ceiling - a real good test of video capabilities.

I also played a tv show with the file format microsoft calls: Microsoft Recorded TV Show (.dvr-ms) I was surprised how well the picture looked on this little netbook. Good color, contrast and detail.

If the 11.6 can't do this, then maybe I'll get the 10.1", but I'm going to wait to see the 11.6 first.

 

I agree 100%!

 

I would like something with the same external size as my 8.9" A150, with a larger screen & therefore a smaller plastic border.

 

I think what they need to do is to focus on the rest of the hardware like GPU (and screen size!) to save as much watts as they can. I believe they can reduce from 5 to 15w in power consumption and then if they "overclock" a little the Atom (+ 2-4w), we'll have a better netbook in many ways.

Yes, 1024x768 at least, but in a 10'' screen!

 

Speaking as someone who used to get invited to Intel conferences on CPU technology, two cpus with the same clock speed can be very different. Clock speed isn't a real measure of performance. For a start each processor can take a different number of its clock ticks to perform the same operation - a floating point add might be 40 ticks on one CPU and 1 tick on another. Then are issues like pipelining, caching...

 

Saw this in WalMart today. It's only SLIGHTLY larger than 10.2" model. In fact, looks like they just used less bezel and less room around the keyboard in the same chassis. Not saying they did, just that's what it looks like.

reviews i've read say the processor is worse nad slower than the atom 1.66 GHz -- can anyone shed light on this choice? Are the review right, or misinformed?