Linux Notebook VIA Antaur CPU

[Jing Su]

> VIA seems to claim that its fast enough for watching DVDs:
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c3-m/
>
> I know that my Duron 1GHz is, too.  Though I'd expect my Duron to
> perform a little
> better than a C3 (particularly at floating point), it's probably just
> fine for the kind of
> work one would expect to be able to do on such a machine.

I'm not sure what kind of video card is embedded on that notebook.  It
seems to me that with quality video hardware, the CPU doesn't matter quite
as much.  I could watch action movie DVDs on my PentiumII-400Mhz with a
GeForce4Ti.  Assuming decent hardware, even with reduced capability CPUs,
I'd imagine anything approaching 1GHz should be capable of watching DVDs.

One thing you should check into though is the battery capacity of the
device.  Even if the whole notebook is power efficient, you might not get
the battery life you expect if the capacity of the batteries is low.


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