I’ve just bought up a Giada Slim-N10. Nobody endured to buy it and for more than half an year I watched it on display. I decided to take the plunge and have it.
I’ll post few screenshots below, but shortly, I’m impressed. Such a small package, decent price, decent performance and based on the few tests below, even better an Acer 3410 (Celeron @ 1.2Ghz) laptop.
CPU-ID:
Super-PI:
Super-PI results surprised me. Even if the whole thing seems snappy enough (Windows 7 64bit), the time 3m27s seems way slower than 1m44s that a Celeron 723 ( http://hex.ro/wp/blog/acer-as3410-723g-celeron-723/ ) was producing.
The Windows Experience Index is however 3.3 which is better than the laptop above. Hard disk and Video performance make a lot of difference it seems:
Finally, the hard disk speed (Tests ran with HdTach, in Windows XP Compatibility mode):
Again, the results are better than the Acer 3410 laptop that I’m comparing it against. In the Acer’s case, the hard disk ends somewhere around 40Mb/s transfer speed, while for Giada N10, they end at around 55Mb/s transfer speed.
I cannot actually compare them both. Acer cost (when I bought it) 330 euros with reduction from 380. So for 100 euros more I got Windows Home pre-installed, 13’3 inch screen, keyboard, faster CPU in SuperPI and 1Gb of RAM more. Both can do 720p on Youtube. On the downside, I can’t really play many things on the laptop … the video board is better on Giada.
I say I like the package, it’s small, it fits behind a big TV.
In the future I will be tempted to use these type of PCs – they seem cheap, do the job properly and for multimedia experience … nothing can beat them.
The most important of them all is that the IDLE temperature is 36 Celsius:
This is the lowest I saw in a processor 🙂 so I’m impressed.
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