VIA Nano-Powered Lenovo IdeaPad S12 Netbook Outperforms Atom
21st August, 2009 by vlad
Tags: Atom, Lenovo, Nano, Notebooks
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Lenovo and VIA have released new netbook which seems to become a good alternative to Intel Atom-powered devices. The IdeaPad S12 (12.1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, 160GB SATA hard drive, six-cell battery, Windows XP Home, and VIA Nano ULV 2250 processor at 1.3 GHz), not a real netbook, proved in tests that it can keep up with any Intel Atom-driven netbooks.
Its speed is inferior to Atom’s, but it benefits from a faster FSB (800 MHz) and a double L2 cache size (1 MB). Thus it is able to play full-screen clips in WMV, DivX, XviD, QuickTime and MP4 formats. In short, a valuable competitor for Intel.
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This nano is faster than the Atom. The Nano clocks up the same Ghz as the Atom but it executes neaaly everything faster because it is not the same slow poke design.