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Did I mention netbooks fail to play flash-based videos if you have several internet pages with flash opened? Acer Aspire One certainly does - plays 3fps till I close other pages with flash ADs (can't turn off those pesky ADs otherwise).]]>Aug 12th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://bit.ly/Feo1I ]]>Aug 12th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/Aug 12th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/atom-based-inhand-firefly-sbc-promises-netbook-level-performance/
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Anywho, it will be interesting to see what the price-point of this item is. It's not going to be the cheapest or the smallest, but the power consumption versus capability ratio is nothing to scoff at. The nearest comparable product i remember off-hand (It's been a couple of years since I've discretely researched for a similar form-factor device. An Atom/Tegra combo might blast this out of the water, I don't really know...yet) was the FitPC - a AMD Geode powered device, which ran at around half the speed of this device and was about the same dimensionally along the two longest edges and a smidge thicker.(About 20mm for the Firefly and 30mm for the FitPC slim, so about 2/3 the thickness and roughly double the horsepower - not bad for a little over a year. Some progress. ;) )

Here is a spec comparison between the two:

http://www.inhand.com/images/pdf/firefly-web.pdf

http://www.fit-pc.com/fit-pc1/fit-pc-slim-specifications.html

And here is a unboxing of the FitPC Slim model to get an idea of the dimensions of these devices. :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0XpoFlGDI0]]>Aug 13th 2009 1:54AM