Acer Aspire One 571 emerges with Vmedia drive

[monsitj]

A new model Acer Aspire One has emerged. The Aspire One 571 seems to be based on the D150 or D250 model, but as a special addition Vmedia drive. Also, the 10.1 "screen other specifications received.

Vmedia is a relatively new optical standard based on blue laser technology with the discs as opposed to the 12cm diameter of blu-ray discs have a diameter of 3.2 cm. Nevertheless, the storage capacity of a single layer disc 1GB, which is allegedly enough for a movie in 576p quality. The discs are contained in a blue, transparent cartridge and can only be read. Later follows Vmedia possible Vmedia drive that can be described. The Vmedia drive in the Aspire One 571 left of the touchpad.

The Aspire One 571, not to be confused with the 751 model with 11.6 "screen like the D150 and the D250 a 10.1" screen, but the resolution is scaled up to 1280 by 720 pixels. To play the movies through the Vmedia drive the Atom N280 CPU, assisted by a Quartics QV1721-coprocessor. This can decode and encode movies including the H.264 codec speed. Also, the logic chip on board for the launch of the picture and the upscaling of 576p movie to the resolution of the screen of the Aspire One 571.

[Allan.d]

And also not moving as both a medium (not efficient) laser as a multi-thousand RPM motor needs, in addition to this wear-sensitive parts, it is also a source of noise and energy consumption. The sooner we moving storage, magnetic or optical, the better. Especially in portable applications.

[TX-Snakebyte]

Is there finally a 10 "model netbook with a decent resolution (Dell mini10 is meager available, HP's downgrade to 600p), which a separate DSP for video decoding has (linux support?), They have another senseless cost as Vmedia drive it.

Shame shame. I want that Vmedia module, this seems to me pretty much the ideal netbook.

It will also have an old Intel 945GSE Northbridge (the alternative would also GN40 NB HD can decode), but I find that fine, the GMA950 delivered much better performance (Max Payne 2 on maximum detail ) Than the GMA500 and the (Linux) support is much better.