Comments on: Silverthorne, Poulsbo ready for XP primetime?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:35:10 +0000

Well, the Dell Mini 12 is now out. There are still only Vista drivers available on the Dell and Intel sites. Haven’t seen a review of the Dell Mini that talked about whether it can handle 720p video or not. Anybody? Is Poulsbo making any progress, or still DOA?

By: brian

brian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:18:46 +0000

Dell Inspiron 1210 MINI 12

So I talked to my special dell Rep and he says it will not be a Solid state Drive.

It will be a regular SATA drive and a nice size like 60GB-80GB.

Also will have an Optical drive. CDRW/DVD or DVDRW. 12″ screen of course.

Should be very nice and prices at around $499.00-$599.00

It will be before Turkey DAY.

HAVE FUN!!~!!!

The mini9 is way too small.

By: jkkmobile

jkkmobile — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:29:49 +0000

that was idle and with different size devises.. 5.6 inch screen vs 8.9 inches…

so the different would not be that much..

..and 720p is nogo with current poslbo drivers where netbook gm950 plays them fine..

By: jkkmobile

jkkmobile — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:27:32 +0000

right now you cant play 720p on pulsbo.. not even with 1.6Ghz version

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:23:20 +0000

It might be a dealbreaker for the external monitor, but the resolution is more than enough to support HD720p movies.

1GB of RAM is good enough to have FireFox opened with something like 7-10 tabs, writing a word document, loading several drivers and systray programs (including anti-virus and ad-aware), and azureus bittorrent client running in the background.

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:18:47 +0000

On average from 5W to 3,3W that would be 30% longer battery life!
Also from 9 to 7W as well!

As long as it’s capable of displaying HD 720p movies I think I’d prefer a device like this.
I wouldn’t want the 1GB RAM. 2GB for XP is more my thing, but then again we’re talking mobile here…

By: Zapgun

Zapgun — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:58:49 +0000

I’m pretty happy with it – best machine I’ve owned in terms of power and size. I have yet to really test it on the road though, so I can’t speak for its power consumption (although I plan on using a backup battery when I do take it out).

By: Brack

Brack — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:32:27 +0000

if the new chipset limits resolution to 13×7 & 1GB RAM that is going to be a deal breaker for many many people.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:36:40 +0000

Hows the Note treating you compared to the SC3
Chippy – thumbing on the sc3 and missing the Note.

By: Zapgun

Zapgun — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:37:14 +0000

I have to say, I have been very underwhelmed with the Intel Polsbo chipset solution, and went out and bought the Everun Note specifically because my SC3 has underperformed and been unreliable since I bought it.

By: theluketaylor

theluketaylor — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:17:22 +0000

correction: link is http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

tool ought to be included in the sentence but not the link

By: theluketaylor

theluketaylor — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:16:28 +0000

Do you have linux running on any of those devices? I’d love to know what the powertop (http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/tool) intel developed has to say about the difference between 945GSE and Poulsbo.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:08:51 +0000

There are UMPCs and MIDs already using it.
As I mentioned in the article, the Kohjinsha SC3 and others.
Rgds
Steve.

By: jkkmobile

jkkmobile — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:34:08 +0000

I have Fujitsu U2010 and Aigo MID and I had Kohjinsha SX3.. all Atom + Polsbo

I also have pile of Atom + GM950 netbooks

So yes, I have been testing them a lot.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:20:51 +0000

jkkmobile…

So how is it you already know about how Poulsbo does on power utilization in real systems? I thought this was the first Poulsbo system we had seen… obviously not in your case?