The first thing I did was uninstall some of the bloatware. Especially Mcafee Antivirus is something I do not want on my system. After removing a couple of more unwanted applications I tested the system. It felt very snappy to me. Using the 1810T as a desktop, browsing with 20 tabs and playing some music in the background there was never a hick up. Hard drive performance was good, as applications and windows opened quickly.
Booting the system went surprisingly fast. It took only 41 seconds from pressing the power button until the desktop appeared. A few seconds later the system was ready to use.
I tested several video clips. Playing the 1080p wmv trailer of 'Rules of Attraction' caused a 100% CPU load at times, but the movie seemed smooth.
Playing back Lady Gaga's Poker Face from Youtube went smooth, untill I pressed HD. CPU load was at 100% and frames started skipping. The SU3500 doesn't have enough muscle power to play this clip.
I also tested some 1080p clips with the popular H264 format. Best results were gotten with Media Player Classic Home Cinema using Cyberlink Power DVD codec.
The trailer of The Bourne Ultimatum looked spectacular: Fast moving action without any dropped frames en audio perfectly in sync. CPU load would often peak at 100% but this was not a problem. Enabling DXVA made CPU load a lot lower at the expense of image quality. The 1080p trailer of 'I Am Legend' played smooth with relatively low CPU load (around 40-50%) after enabling DXVA.
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Phil,
ReplyDeleteWhen you reviewed this, was the SU2300 propcessor available? I'm thinking it may be quicker with the dual cores. How do you feel this compares to the Inspiron 11z with the SU4100 processor?
Jack