When I reviewed the Acer Aspire 1410 with a Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor and Windows Vista a last month, I found that it was much faster than your average netbook when it came CPU-intensive tasks like transcoding audio and video files. But there was one thing it still couldn’t do: play HD and high […]
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NVIDIA and Adobe demo HD Flash with NVIDIA ION GPU acceleration
Just in case you had any doubt that NVIDIA and Adobe were preparing to announce a new version of Adobe Flash with GPU acceleration soon, representatives from the two companies showed off an HP Mini 311 laptop with NVIDIA ION graphics playing HD Flash video at the NVIDIA GPU conference in San Jose yesterday. You […]
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NVIDIA and Adobe to support hardware acceleration for HD Flash video
Netbooks with Intel Atom processors generally have enough power to handle 720p video playback. And if they have 1024 x 600 pixel or lower resolution screens, they can handle standard definition and some high quality Flash video playback in full screen mode. But there are two things that no netbook I’ve used to date have […]
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NVIDIA, Broadcom working on GPU acceleration for Flash video
NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Adobe are working on adding GPU acceleration for Flash video to their video solutions for low power netbooks and MIDs. Because, while you can stream full screen standard definition Hulu video pretty well on a machine 1024 x 600 pixel display and an Intel Atom CPU, good luck trying to do the […]