PC World Magazine - September 2010

I’ve been cheating on my Windows 7 PC. You see, when I need to edit and upload videos to YouTube, I use a Mac. My indiscretion began casually, but it’s evolved into a bit of an obsession: This is an affair that I do not intend to end. The simple, painful truth is that video editing and YouTube uploading is much smoother when I use iMovie on a MacBook Pro.

I’ve been shooting a lot of video lately on the ATI Radeon graphic card. The Nano Cube’s performance on three of the four gaming benchmark tests we ran were flawlessly smooth. It played Crysis and World in Conflict at medium resolution at 96 frames per second (fps) and 134 fps, respectively. Crysis at very high quality was a bit jerky (33 fps), however. Multimedia tests were also quick, with this system finishing Windows Media Encoder in a quick 30 seconds and Photoshop CS4 in 1:18. All in all, the Nano Cube is a decent system for the specialized LAN party enthusiast. But if you don’t need portability, I recommend the Editors’ Choice Falcon Northwest
Talon (Core i7-875K) for $500 more. —Joel Santo Domingo