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Video playback on a netbook

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Lumiinous:
Just speaking from experience, I have an ASUS EEEPC 1000H or some crap like that. Single core atom.

576p and below will play fine, but 720 is really iffy, and 1080 does not happen.

fohfoh:
Agreed. 720 is iffy on netbooks and 1080 will not happen.

Personally, I use a Sony Vaio Sz 400 series business laptop. It's extremely light for its size (barely heaver than a netbook, heavier for sure, but when you compare 13.3" vs 10.1" there's bound to be differences).

Gives me a C2D to work with T7200 @ 2.0Ghz
Ram I upgraded
HDD I upgraded
Turbo Cache video card, but gpu isn't really the issue. It's processing power.

I paid 1 grand CDN 1 year ago. So I'm pretty sure other SZ series go for around that price if not less (though might be hard to find). Battery life on the standard battery ranges around 2 hours - 4 depending on which setting you use. Which... is less than a netbook, but you can do so much more on this laptop than a netbook.

But beyond my laptop, there are other laptops out there that can do the same thing for maybe 40-60% more in price. And we're talking more than 40-50% more useful than a netbook too.

Not sure what other ones are not weighty (probably not Toshiba) but they're out there. You just have to be a little more careful since they're usually made with either flimsy aluminium or thin plastic instead of a strong plastic turtle shell.

Mcgreag:
I don't know about the MSI one but the ASUS one can handle 1080p h264. It has Nvidia ION for graphics which means it can offload the video on the GPU using DXVA or CUDA.

Actually it seem to have very close specs to my HTPC (an ASRock ION 330) which can handle anything I throw at it video vice. Not so good for gaming of course but otherwise very nice.

lapa321:
Just to clarify that these aren't normal netbooks.



The reviews demonstrated them playing back blueray so it's pretty much guaranteed that they can support a standardized codec. The question now is if it supports bakabt codecs (Which is everything out there set to insane bitrates).

fohfoh:
Dual core 1.6Ghz in pretty much both. Should play 720 alright. 1080 is iffy by not impossible I guess.

But even then. 720/1080 on a 10 inch screen? Come on. There's really no need to care about quality, but playback capabilities.

You should be ok with 720.

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