Acer readies HD netbook Acer appears to be preparing a rather more HD-friendly netbook than many of its past mini laptops have proved to be. The Aspire One 571 - not to be confused with the recently launched Aspire One 751 - has the same shell as the Aspire One Dx50 series but comes with a 10.1in, 1280 x 720 display. Acer Aspire One 571 Acer's …
The article confuses several times between 751 and 571.
I fail to see the logic about this VMedia "mini drive". 1GB per layer? Even if it's dual layer, double side, you'll get 4GB storage total. A simple SDHC 4GB SD Card costs around $7 these days, and you cannot read those VMedia cartridges anywhere unless you'll buy an external drive for it.
As for Quartics Q1721 Multimedia Coprocessor chip , there are dozen chips (from TI and others) which can not only decode H.264 in real time, but other codecs as well (VC1, Divx HiDef, even some wavelet compressions). NVidia has some solutions too (other than the 9400M).
Weird machine, weird decisions..
"...assuming, of course, the 571 is legit and not simply a prototype or concept machine. "
So you have not done your research. I hate reading through what looks like a product review to then find a statement along the lines of 'well actually we have no idea if this is true or not'
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The Aspire One 571 - not to be confused with the recenltly launched Aspire One 751
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There's no word on when the 751 might ship - or where. Certainly, Vmedia has been thus far aimed solely at the Indian market, and Acer may want to limit the 751 to customers there.
lol
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