03/01/2010, NVIDIA has just made its next-generation Ion graphics processors official. You might have heard that Ion-Next was slower than the first generation Ion… well this is wrong. In fact, there are two versions of Ion, a 16-core and an 8-core [...]
02/21/2010, The pre-release version of the Chrome operating system has shown itself capable of supporting the NVIDIA ION platform, which would definitely make netbook owners happy if they are looking for an avenue to play back HD video on their machine. [...]
02/15/2010, If you’re shopping around for a new netbook, you might want to check out the upcoming Acer Aspire One 532G, which will start shipping by the end of Q1 2010. This 10.1-inch netbook is touted as the world’s first netbook to [...]
12/21/2009, NVIDIA’s Ion 2 platform has been rumored to arrive in the form of a PCI Express card, but that has yet to be confirmed, It does make sense for this move to be taken, however, since slotting in a standalone [...]
12/07/2009, Word is out that Acer has placed a large order for Nvidia’s Ion 2-based chips which were specially designed to support Intel’s upcoming Atom N450, N470, D510 or D410 CPUs as well as related chipsets from Acer themselves. Nvidia has [...]
11/24/2009, AOpen USA has come up with a new barebones mini HTPC, giving you one more option if you’re planning to set up an HTPC in your living room. The XC Mini GP7A series PC supports full 1080p HD video playback [...]
11/18/2009, Asus and NVIDIA have just announced that several new models of the award-winning Asus Eee line are shipping with NVIDIA’s Ion chipset (the same one used in the Macbook Pro). The new products include: Eee PC 1201N: Ion + dual-core CPU [...]
11/15/2009, Bill Owens has a rather nice way of showing his support for NVIDIA, in the form of the award-winning NVIDIA ION Cube PC case mod, which as its name implies, is based on NVIDIA’s ION ITX motherboard. The casing sports [...]
09/27/2009, It looks like Lenovo’s Q110 nettop has gone on sale and is currently going for $399 with 2GB RAM and a 160GB hard drive. It currently comes with Windows Vista Home Premium, but we suspect that a lot of folks [...]
07/28/2009, You remember that Viewsonic had launched a bunch of Atom-based computers? Well, here’s a hands-on video of the VOT130, courtesy of netbooknews.com. This particular Nettop should be capable of playing HD content… that’s certainly smaller than my current living room [...]
06/29/2009, Update: It appears that this would be the 11.1″ Samsung N510. The specifications are under intense speculation, but the word on the street is that this will be a 1366×768 11.1″ display, an Atom N280 1.66Ghz and only 1GB of [...]
06/04/2009, One of the gripes that first generation iPhone users have is the relatively short battery life, but fret not – there are tons of third party battery packs available, and the Ion from FSP is the latest in a long [...]
05/21/2009, The NVIDIA Ion platform is quite exciting: who doesn’t want many times the graphics power in a comparable power/thermal envelope? In fact, Intel might even think that it is “too good”, so the company is said to apply deep discounts [...]