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Originally Posted by Andy Dixon
Thats a really nice looking bit of kit. It might even be a possible contender to replace my Dell M1330 which while still looks great and performs of, is starting to show it's age a bit. I look forward to seeing your thoughts on how it performs.
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I too have an XPS M1330 that's starting to show its age - but while the dm3 is thinner and lighter than the M1330, the CPU is no where near the performance levels of an Intel Core 2 Duo from even two years ago.
In my ProShow Gold video encoding benchmark, my XPS M1330 with a Core 2 Duo P8600 at 2.4 Ghz completed the benchmark in 3 minutes 24 seconds. The dv2, which uses the same CPU as the dm3, completed it in 7 minutes 3 seconds. An Atom CPU at 1.6 Ghz? 13 minutes 32 seconds. So you can see the story here - the AMD CPU in this thing is almost 2x faster than the Atom CPU, but almost 2x slower than the CPU in the XPS M1330...so it depends on what you're looking for.