Saturday, January 02, 2010
The Tech Report has a rather detailed review comparing both the Acer Aspire One 751 and Gateway LT3103 11.6” mini-notebooks.
All it really comes down to is the Acer Aspire One 751 for the battery life (6.5 hours) at the expense of speed (which I feel is going to be borderline for most people), or the Gateway LT3103 for better performance at the expense of less battery life (4 hours). Both are the same on the outside with a few cosmetic changes.
I was also curious about 1080P video playback on the LT3103 with it’s slightly more powerful AMD processor and ATI Radeon X1270 graphics, but it seems there is no hardware support for it and the result was a slideshow with 100% CPU usage.
The Radeon X1270 has no propper hardware acceleration for H.264, therefore slideshow on HD content :(
Peter, do you still own our Acer 751? A compramision between the 751 and your ION-Revo would be very interesting. Maybe with the same Setup (Win7) because it comes with the right codecs just out-of-the-box.
ATI RS690M chipset with X1270 IGP is obsolete junk. The chipset is what, 3 years old, released in 2006 and the IGP is obsolete 5 year old design based on X700 GPU architechture(2004) with no Shader Model 3.0 support. Almost as bad as Intel pairing the obsolete 5 year old 945G chipset with the 45nm Atom CPU.
Constrast that with a modern chipset like Nvidia Ion chipset with DX10, full H.264/VC-1/MPEG-2 bitstream decoding, CUDA support and quarterly updated mobile GPU drivers you can download from http://www.nvidia.com and you get the idea. Also don’t forget, it has strong 3rd party support with players like the freeware open source MPC-HC and VDPAU support in Linux media players.
@Ion: I have to completely agree with you! The ION is the way more advanced GPU. Actually i´m typing on a MacBookPro with a 8600M GT and things just….work!
But also i find that PowerVR approach very interesting. They are not trying to strip-down a modern desktop graphic-card to the needs of an netbook/MID user. Instead specializing its design to it from the scratch.
Too sad, Netbook don´t get the “love” in terms of drivers/software as other upcoming devices with this hardware. Like the iPhone 3GS, Sony PSP2 that will be using this very different GPU technology.
Heh, that REALLY puts things into perspective, Ion.
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Felix, no I don’t have the 751 anymore. I am keeping the Aspire Revo though.
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