HP Mini 311 ION Powered Transcoding Video - Update

Update: Xavier also tested out Call of Duty on the Mini 311. Also ships with ArcSoft TotalMedia player which features upscaling of standard definition videos to improve image quality. Read on.

Xavier from Notebooks.com with some rep from HP or NVidia showing off one of the other benefits of the NVidia ION which also comes on the 11.6” HP Mini 311. Quickly converting big videos into small ones so you can copy them over to your portable MP3 player. (or transcoding)

Windows 7 has built-in transcoding so that’s what they’ve installed on the Mini 311 to do the test. A 1080P Quicktime movie trailer took just over 1 minute to convert while on a Intel based, non ION netbook it takes about 10 minutes. So 5x - 10x faster converting of videos to your iPod or whatever with ION powered netbooks.

This has been demonstrated with the ION chipset before but it’s a feature is probably not well known and worth mentioning again.