Demo of HP Mini 311 with NVIDIA ION Graphics
Warner Crocker and Kevin Tofel criticized a Forbes reporter’s take on netbooks today. The Forbes guy had a couple of valid points, but he was generally out of touch with the netbook/notebook market.
I like what netbooks have to offer, but they have a lot of limitations that frustrate some users. Graphics performance one such limitations. Now users have the option to buy a netbook that is much more capable in the graphics department.
I met up with some guys from NVIDIA and they let me play with a Mini 311 that’s equipped with ION graphics. The Mini 311 starts at $399 and I’m sure it’ll be down to about $300 this holiday season.
As you can see in the first video you can actually play Call of Duty 4 at low settings.
The Mini 311 can upscale standard definition video on the fly.
And it can transcode video 5-10 times faster than netbooks with integrated graphics.
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Joe | Sep 17, 2009 | Reply
I know they won’t listen, but tell HP to put the guts of this into a modern tc1100 with active digitizer and preferably capacitive touch as well. I know I’d pay quite a bit more than netbook prices these days for it.
MagisD | Sep 29, 2009 | Reply
At that point your pretty much looking at a tx2 price point