HD Video Playback Capabilities on Netbooks?

Netbooks by far was the best thing to come in 2008 in my opinion. Everybody seems want to put their hands on that lucrative products. But how far would computer makers want to present their netbooks? by pushing some overkill features that’s how.

The latest introduction was the Nvidia Ion. A platform for netbooks and ultra mobile personal computer (UMPC) that consist of Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M chipset and Intel Atom Processor. They claimed it would support 1080 HD video playback. 

Days later, Intel says their going to release its Atom N2780 (1.66GHz) that would support 720p HD playback (via hardware based 720p video decoder) 

I thought netbooks are supposed to be a cost-effective, low power consumption platform? I know that companies would put every shiny features on it. But isn’t 720p or 1080p playback in a 10-inch netbooks a bit overkill? I don’t know about you all, but personally for me I’m not comfortable watching those HD videos in a netbook. I prefer watching in a home cinema or something like that (not that I have one, but having a home cinema would be nice :)

And what about battery life? one of my reason on buying a netbook is long lasting battery life, doesn’t HD video playback consume more power? So they should focusing on making a better and smarter technologies for minimizing power consumption on netbooks instead. 

That’s just some of my 2 cents regarding this HD competition on netbooks that come up recently. Comments are welcome.

February 7th, 2009 by Patrick G van Diest | Tech | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

4 Comments on “HD Video Playback Capabilities on Netbooks?”

  1. 1 rama said at 3:24 pm on February 12th, 2009:

    i couldn’t agree more. i was at a Dell netbook launching party the other day and found out that they put a very2 high price for a netbook product, 7 million! It’s unbelievable.

  2. 2 .cha said at 5:36 am on February 13th, 2009:

    pat..
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  4. 4 Patrick G van Diest said at 12:39 pm on February 13th, 2009:

    gue ga ngerti deh cha? begimana?