Handbrake H.264 Encoding
Website: HandBrake
Our test uses HandBrake - an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows - to encode a high resolution MPEG-2 video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.
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MSI X-Slim X340
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HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea
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Samsung NC10
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GIMP Image Editing
Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
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MSI X-Slim X340
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HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea
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Samsung NC10
Time (seconds) - lower is better
File Compression & Encryption:
Website: WinRAR
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MSI X-Slim X340
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HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea
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Samsung NC10
Time (seconds) - lower is better
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MSI X-Slim X340
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HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea
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Samsung NC10
Time (seconds) - lower is better
MP3 Encoding
We used LAME MT for our audio encoding test - it's the multi-threaded version of the popular LAME MP3 encoder. We ran tests with both Intel's and Microsoft's compilers - naturally, the Intel compiler resulted in some performance increases on Intel's processors. We converted all 18 tracks from Moby's popular
Play album to a 192kbps variable bit-rate MP3.
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MSI X-Slim X340
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HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea
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Samsung NC10
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Time (seconds) - lower is better
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MSI X-Slim X340
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HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea
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Samsung NC10
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Time (seconds) - lower is better
The X340 is a cut above the Athlon Neo-based
HP Pavilion dv2-1030ea in all of the tests and it's in a completely different performance class to the Atom-based Samsung NC10. Despite this though, the X-Slim X340's Core 2 Solo SU3500 is not fast enough to play YouTube HD content without dropping frames – you're going to need at least a dual-core processor to overcome that particular performance hurdle.
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