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Dell Inspiron Mini 12 notebook-not-netbook
The netbook goes big-screen
Mon 16 Mar 2009 //
13:07 UTC
As you can see from our PCMark05 bench tests a speed demon the Mini 12 is not, the HDD test result being particularly poor. The 1.6GHz Atom Z530 doesn't deliver quite as much performance as the 1.6GHz Atom N270, but it's not so very far behind.
PCMark05 Results
Longer bars are better
Its not all bad news though. Running our usual Gimp test by applying the Gaussian blur filter to a 2048 x 1366 pixel JPEG image took a class-leading average of 4.5 seconds compared to 5.1 seconds on the Windows XP Mini 9.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
