Dual Core Asus 1201N Benchmarked vs. HP / Compaq Mini 311

Saturday, December 12th, 2009...11:33 pm

HP / Compaq Mini 311 vs. Asus Eee PC 1201N

Someone named Vention, over at Noti, has gotten their handss on ASUS’s upcoming dual core , Atom 330 powered Eee PC 1201N notebook and has run some benchmarks comparing it to the Compaq (HP in the states) Mini 311. Both of these netbooks are NVidia ION powered, but the 1201N has a dual-core Atom 330 processor and while the Compaq Mini 311c comes with single core Atom N270 or N280 processor.

The results in this 3dMark benchmark test are suprising, the HP Mini 311 actually beats the Eee PC 1201N in two out three tests, despite having one less processor core than the Asus Eee PC 1201N. It’s possible that this test is not suited to testing the extra processor capability of the 1201N, so we hope they’ll run some more processor based benchmarks soon.

The Asus Eee PC 1201N is expected to ship early 2010, and the Compaq Mini 311C is currently available from Amazon for £334.37.

via Netbooked.