Dell :: True HD Potential Of The Mini 10/12?

I got a quick demo of a Dell Inspiron Mini 12 decoding a 1080p H.264 Blu-ray rip (20 - 35Mbps) while running through a Quake III timedemo.

The video clip didn’t drop any frames and the Quake III demo ran at above 30 fps. The engineers on hand indicated that a real concern in these sorts of situations isn’t the GPU horsepower, the PowerVR SGX core can easily handle the two tasks, but rather memory bandwidth.

Poulsbo only supports a single channel of DDR2-533 memory, barely enough bandwidth by today’s standards.

The Imagination Technologies staff also ran a dual stream video decode demo where they had a Atom/Poulsbo netbook playing one 8Mbps H.264 video and a 1080p H.264 video on an external display, simultaneously. Again, memory bandwidth is the only limitation here - the Atom never peaked above 29% CPU utilization."

EDIT: If this was true, then the HD limitations on the Poulsbo chipset is a software/driver issue, not hardware. Furthermore, if this potential was achieved, then Ion would be obsolete -

the Poulsbo uses far less power than the 945GSE, which itself uses far less power than Nvidia's Ion.