Acer Aspire One 521: Flash Video HD test

Unveiled last week, the new netbook Aspire One 521-based AMD Nile has been tested to know its performance in the reading of Flash video.

We hope that in the coming months Adobe releases an update for the chip dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 for Flash Player 10.1 (as all Radeon HD4000 should be compatible), allowing smooth reading of video in Flash, whose final release should be proposal in late June. Find a review Acer Aspire One 521 on this page.

Recall first that integrates the new Aspire One 521 platform AMD Nile with AMD Geneva V105 at 1.2GHz and 1GB of DDR3 memory. The chip ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 runs a 10.6-inch screen with WSVGA resolution of 1024 × 600 pixels, the frame that houses more than a 1.3 megapixel webcam. The range of interfaces understanding are a card reader, HDMI, VGA, audio jack, Ethernet and three USB 2.0 ports. The section of networking is instead characterized by the presence of a WiFi module 802.11b / g

The Netbook Acer Aspire One 521 can read fluently one video at standard resolution. A full-screen 720p movie is played with a few interruptions and artifacts, while 1080p display significantly worse. So bad news for users who were expecting better performance in the multimedia sector. However, the full-screen playback of HD video stored on the hard disk of the netbook is perfectly smooth.