First Impressions of XP on the Mini-Note
It really is way better with XP on the Mini-Note. YouTube videos play fine, Hulu is almost watchable in small screen, DVDs look great, and 480p QuickTime Trailers are watchable (still dropped frames, but less than Hulu). In general the performance is way better than Vista with XP on it. The one thing I do miss from Vista though is it’s power management let you set throttle the cpu to a certain percentage. I’m still playing with couple 3rd party apps trying to pick the best one.
XP is definitely way better than Vista on the Mini-Note. I’ll have an official review, some videos and updated benchmarks soon.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
About the Quicktime videos.. what video player are you using?
I would eventually try the following to achieve better performance:
-install the K-Lite (Mega) codec Pack
-rename the “.mov” files to “.hdmov”
-play them with the Windows Media Player Classic which comes with the K-Lite pack
May 4th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I’ll give that a shot and let you know!
May 4th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Genius. You have plenty of good performance tests. I will be interested to see your comparisons. Great job.
Heard today : May the fourth be with you.
Stupid heh?
May 4th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
WOW! Using that K-Lite package is awesome. 720P Ironman trailer played *flawlessly*. So that’s 1280×544. I never would have thought anything could have made a difference like that.
PS: Dredg rules!
May 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
@foo
Thanks!
Nah, I kinda like it. I’ll use it next month!
May 5th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Drivers for XP from HP
http://www.hp2133guide.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=75