Yeah, It says it does everything you want except decoding h.264 through software...but then it shows it'll work fine if the program knows to offload to the gpu.
Lets see, she/we will be using the full office 2007 suite, surfing, watching HD vid's from of the net, basic games, and playing with the Ipod. Most of the time she multi tasks several programs/ and or users.
I guess i am concerned that it won't be "snappy" and quick. Thoughts?
I am liking what Mr. Thrax through out and the whole mITX form factor part of it.
This article, posted by Buddy J, contains my concerns and offers yet another opinion in the defense of my belief that the atom/ion is not what I should be looking at.
[FONT=verdana,geneva]based on the Atom platform, there will always remain one big restriction, aka 'bottleneck', and that is overall Atom CPU performance. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,geneva]The reality however is that you can pickup, say an AMD 780G chipset based motherboard with Athlon X2 770BE processor and for the same kind of money you have much more power yet the very same features at your disposal, as it will also come with a video processor and thus embedded GPU. But that solution is bigger and will consume more power. But yeah, that is also something you guys need to think about because as an upgrade path that solution would simply offer more.[/FONT]
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I guess i am concerned that it won't be "snappy" and quick. Thoughts?
I am liking what Mr. Thrax through out and the whole mITX form factor part of it.