Agreed. Also using a netbooks with a relatively slow SSD and comparing it to the Ion platform with a fast hard drive. Kinda stupid.
They could easily have chosen a netbook with a hard drive. Installed an extra 1GB of RAM so both systems were at 2GB. Installed the same version of Vista on both. Disabled the second CPU on the Ion. Turned the screen brightness on the display down or even off when doing power measurements, etc etc.
Still, can't look a gift horse in the mouth. Best comparison we've seen so far.
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Started liking the PC Perspective review until they actually benchmarked ION with Vista and 2GB of RAM against an EEE with 1GB and XP. Good grief.
Agreed. Also using a netbooks with a relatively slow SSD and comparing it to the Ion platform with a fast hard drive. Kinda stupid.
They could easily have chosen a netbook with a hard drive. Installed an extra 1GB of RAM so both systems were at 2GB. Installed the same version of Vista on both. Disabled the second CPU on the Ion. Turned the screen brightness on the display down or even off when doing power measurements, etc etc.
Still, can't look a gift horse in the mouth. Best comparison we've seen so far.