Comments on: UMID Mbook Benchmarks

By: john wander

john wander — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:29:03 +0000

I put your blog to my facebook favourite sites.

By: scoobie

scoobie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:03:56 +0000

There are virtlly no non intel powered devices. I think it is a balanced site. Midmoves isn’t however, but then its sponsored by Intel

By: Hanzo

Hanzo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:10:43 +0000

Well that’s true, but does that means we should ignore their products no matter what the product is?

Is UMPCPortal a fan site of Intel?

By: gogo

gogo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:24:18 +0000

I hear about Nano and other VIA chips years ago… But have you seen devices available in shops?

By: EC

EC — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:03:05 +0000

It could or could not do what your desktop/laptop can or can’t with the same OS (well in this context anyway).

By: scoobie

scoobie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:56:20 +0000

Jiba – No – it couldn’t

By: Jiba

Jiba — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:14:55 +0000

Could it be used as a PDA, e.g. with an agenda program that can raise an alarm before events, even when the device if off / hibernating ?

By: Hanzo

Hanzo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:11:23 +0000

It’s off-topic, but I got to say: why UMPCPortal doesn’t want to report any other hardware news except Intel’s solution? Where’s the report of VIA’s 1st 1080P H.264 HW decoding chipset, VX855?

By: scoobie

scoobie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:07:56 +0000

This is faster than the base 1.3 normal HD Sony P

By: JC

JC — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:20:54 +0000

The D2D score is a measure of graphics performance, not processor performance. That the UMID has a faster processor isn’t actually relevant.

The release notes for the GMA500 driver actually notes the low CrystalMark D2D score as a known issue. (I assume the XP driver has the same issues as the Vista driver.) Perhaps the Aigo was using the generic VGA driver. The release notes say that currently gives a higher D2D score.
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16943/eng/relnotes_vista_gfx.htm

By: maxus

maxus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:00:41 +0000

I really don’t undestand. The Aigo MID with the XP you mentioned some time ago http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/atom-silverthorne-performance-results , that it’s not even fully adapted to the Aigo, a 800 mhz silverthorne without HT if I remember well, has 1598 in D2D and the supposedly somehow better 1.3ghz UMID with the same ATom/silverthorne and HT gives an amazingly low, in comparison, 191? It looks pretty absurd to me.

By: EC

EC — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:52:51 +0000

So maybe I can keep my Dell Mini as a MacBook Nano as I use it now and the UMID as my only native Win netbook & onthego full OS device.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:40:21 +0000

No word yet. Sorry.

By: krynk

krynk — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:09:52 +0000

Any word on importers that have this guy in stock yet?

Do want in the US.