http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
Not quite sure about it myself though. Didn't the netbook on the left have the windows aero theme while the one on the right had the windows classic look? It may not make a world of a difference, but I'm sure the aero didn't help the performance of the netbook on the left.
]]>Mar 31st 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Aero actually helps the performance, it's GPU hardware accelerated. It may eat through more battery power, but it performs better when there's a powerful enough GPU installed (like an Ion for example).]]>Mar 31st 2010 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
Wayne: Hey Garth, Extreeeme Close-Up! Whooooaaaaaaa!!!]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/They will when IE9 is released if the other browsers don't match this.]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
seems like firefox has been doing exactly that (for months now), per Engadget's source link:

http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2009/11/22/direct2d-hardware-rendering-a-browser]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/yeah how about no. Ie8 better than chrome, currently the fastest browser.

Wait, weren't you InternetExplorer?]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
Did you forget the whole " don't troll " ban that occurred? Oh and nice name, tool]]>Apr 1st 2010 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
sarcasm? this is utterly ridiculous. most people use IE. in fact, there are tons of people who don't even know there are other browsers besides IE.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/I wonder if people think IE is made by a bunch of kids. That's what seems like. Microsoft has hundreds of the best engineers working on their software. Maybe 5 years ago they were behind on their browser but now they get it. I use chrome ie and firefox. IE is a great browser. And I surpise myself how
much I use it.]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Apr 1st 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/He got banned and came back through various other names like
InternetExplorer
GoogleSucks
WM7 S
etc...

Hopefully he's been IP banned; don't think he's smart enough to get around it.]]>Mar 31st 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/how many people are actually on a static ip? i don't know anyone where i am here and it is only available to people with business internet accounts... so after a day or so an ip ban wouldn't matter and you wouldn't need to change anything...

Correct me if i'm wrong.. or different in other areas..]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
Ive been banned 34 times on this site and IP banned 7 times when i used to troll this site nov 2007 to april 2009

well the IP banning failed as you only have to change browsers]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/35SVG--oids/Default.xhtml]]>Mar 31st 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
I was able to play it perfectly well in FF 3.6]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/But in the Flying Images demo, Firefox only gets like 25 FPS for me. (E6600 @ 3 GHz, 8800 GTS 512, 4GB RAM)]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/my E6600 is running at default, not overclocked like yours.
8800 gt is running at default too

in IE9 preview I get 64fps with default (64 images), but when I up the images to 256 I get roughly 34fps.

you can see how well IE9 preview does with images and zoom level. zoom in all the way and stop the rotation by pointing the mouse in the center of the rotating images. see how clean they look? no jagged edges.

anyone can go try them out at: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
Try pressing N to go into nebula mode. Killed the performance for me on FF 3.0.19.

On the flying images test, with 64 icons in the middle of the screen (where performance was the lowest) I was getting 7 FPS. This is probably because firefox doesn't use the GPU at all, at least not my version. CPU usage for firefox.exe was pegged at 25%. Seems FF 3.0.x isn't multithreaded or built for GPU use at all. Sure shows in other stuff. I don't know how many times firefox has locked up while its pegged at 25%, doing stuff. Or how many times a video stutters because some page reloads and messes everything up. I should upgrade......]]>Apr 1st 2010 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Opera 10.51: Anywhere between 20 and 50fps
Firefox 3.6.2: ~12-15fps
IE 8.0.6001.18904: ~4fps with a lot of screen tearing
Safari 5.0.307.1 and Chrome 4.05: ~3fps
when using 36 pics on a Q6600 & 512MB 8800GT

It would seem that both Opera 10.5 and FF3.6 use the GPU, but I think Operas JS engine is better (it's certainly faster from what I've seen), which may have something to do with it.]]>Apr 1st 2010 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Apr 11th 2010 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
I'm pretty sure that's how Asus pronounces it...]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/its ay-soos.]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
Hmm, I learn something everyday.]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/It's supposed to be pronounced "Ah-soos" because it's supposed to be the end of the word PegASUS.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Apr 1st 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://writing.wikinut.com/Concepts%3A-Do-they-ever-go-near-the-production-line/15dk_p66/]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
The only reason that IE is starting to turn around is that they lost a lot of market share, and now they pretty much have to comply with standards in order to be viable. And I still refuse to use it because someone has to keep Microsoft from having so much market share that IE can go back to its old ways. Never again.]]>Mar 31st 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
You just failed to define 'Standard' properly. With 90% of the market, IE was the standard, and anyone doing standard web development targeted that browser.

They still have 66% of the market, IE standards still overrule web standards.

Now if only we could get FF to support some HTML 4 standards before they go all CSS3 draft on us.
]]>Apr 1st 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/Mar 31st 2010 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/
It's like the point they're trying to make is that GPU acceleration works better on *book with a dedicated GPU then a *book without one.

Like no s***]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/ie9-demoed-on-ion-based-eee-pc-with-full-gpu-acceleration/try out the rest and see how they run in chrome
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
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