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Posted by Crazytom - Fri 07 Jan 2011 14:56
Looks pretty good, been needing a replacement for my old aspire one for a while now. If it comes in at <£300 im sold!
Posted by Jedibeeftrix - Fri 07 Jan 2011 15:52
“The DX11 GPU should make light work of outputting high-def media on the netbook's 10.1in 1,280x720 display”

Is it really a 1280x720 display, or is it a 720p display from which we may infer that its resolutions is in fact 1366x768?
Posted by Jimbo75 - Fri 07 Jan 2011 16:31
Some c-50 tests put it close to the dual core N550 Atom in cpu synthetics (it's a mile ahead in graphics as you might have guessed). Remember though that in single core loads Brazos will handily beat atom due to it's OoO architecture.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.hardware.info%2Freviews%2F1961%2F4%2Famd-fusion-apu-review-benchmarks&act=url

AMD also says the C-50 can loop 3dmark06 for 6 1/2 hours non stop, but I lost that link.
Posted by baius - Thu 13 Jan 2011 22:42
My FireFox bookmarks are becoming too big, but I had to save this page…

Crazytom, I agree with you about the price.

Jedibeeftrix, I hope this isn't that strange resolution, either! 1366 is 683 x 2, IE not a multiple of 16. Bit weird…

I think the reasoning goes:

Even so, why not just make it 1280 * 800 for a 16:10 ratio instead?

Whilst 16:9 films unfortunately get a few black lines, you do get that bit of extra scrolling height in your browser. I'd happily “sacrifice” the black bars for more FireFox. :)

(Same also goes for 24" monitors, manufacturers!!) :-|