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Review: Packard Bell Imax Mini NVIDIA ION nettop PC. A little bundle of joy?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 21 July 2009, 14:16 3.2

Tags: Packard Bell Imax Mini, Packard Bell (TPE:2353), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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CPU-related benchmarks

HEXUS.PiFast calculation to 10m places
HP Pavilion dv2 ASUS U20AASUS Seashell 1005HAPackard Bell Imax Mini
82.675.48194.21204.02


The single-threaded performance is poor, and Acer/PB could have included the dual-core 330 Atom chip in this system.

7-zip compression of 205MB files
HP Pavilion dv2 ASUS U20AASUS Seashell 1005HAPackard Bell Imax Mini
243191215231


Hyperthreading helps in 7-zip compression.

CINEBENCH R10 64-bit - multi-CPU render
HP Pavilion dv2 ASUS U20AASUS Seashell 1005HAPackard Bell Imax Mini
12111281889822


Load up everything that Atom's got and performance is reasonable when compared to Intel's own CULV and AMD's Neo chips.

Terminator Salvation 480p (mov) playback via VLC
HP Pavilion dv2 ASUS U20AASUS Seashell 1005HAPackard Bell Imax Mini
20.221.7220.622.7


Espoused as a multimedia system, 480p (MOV) decoding is smooth enough, with no dropped frames or aberrations in the picture quality.