It looks like we will have to wait until late may or early June before we will be able to get our hands on any ASUS or Acer netbooks with next-gen ION inside. The Asus 1201PN is scheduled to be released first in Europe and Asia in late May, and then in June for folks [...]

The people at Notebookcheck have a pre-release version of Asus’ new Eee PC 1201PN with the second iteration of ION graphics. This netbook scored a 3098 in 3DMark05, which is a nice increase when compared to the 1201N’s score of 2143. The main difference between the 1201N and the 1201PN is the Intel Atom N450 [...]

ION Based has been pretty dead for a while, but I am going to attempt to revive this blog with fresh posts about the latest and greatest in the ION world. If anyone wants to help me out with generating content, then please email me at admin@ionbased.com
Thanks,
Neil

Another Ion-based nettop is ready to take its place in our living-rooms: Giada N10.

“So what ?” – you’ll say – “Another nettop coming from China.” Although this is true, the main characteristic of the “toy” is its weight and size. Weighting just 0,52 kg (without HDD), N10 has all the features of Ion-based nettops: dual-core Atom 330 processor, [...]

A new Ion-based nettop appeared on the market: Myka ION. Featuring an dual-core Atom N330 processor, up to 4 Gb of RAM and HDDs from 160 Gb to 1 Tb, the nettop has a fanless architecture. In terms of connectivity, no less than 10 USB2.0 ports are available, as well as eSATA, VGA, DVI, HDMI, [...]

Nvidia just started a contest in order to promote its ION platform. Thus, 12 bundles will go to the most creative and fun material about the Ultimate ION Netbook. Besides the HP Mini 311 the bundles also contain:
A HP external Blu-Ray drive;
A HDMI cable;
A case to hold all the goods;
3 hot new Blu-Ray titles for you [...]

The ION LE chipset was released by NVIDIA a little while ago, and it was virtually the same as the original ION, except for its lack of DirectX 10 support. The marketing strategy was to make the chip cheaper, while at the same time limiting it to only Windows XP systems. Recently, the user runawayprisoner [...]

Considering the plethora of Ion-based devices launched lately, we might consider Zotac as one of the most enthusiastic fans of Nvidia’s GPU. The PC components maker released a new motherboard serie for Europe.

The new motherboard series – called Synergy Edition – come in the same Mini-ITX format and has two versions – ION ITX-E Synergy [...]

Haleron just announced its line of Ion-based nettops – the H-BOX.
Featuring a Dual-Core Atom N330 processor and ION graphics, the nettop weighs less than 1kg. Besides that, we find the usual: 2Gb of RAM, 320 Gb of HDD, 5xUSB2.0, HDMI output, Ethernet, audio ports and card reader.
At this point, no information on price and availability [...]

We first announced it back in May. Afterwards it was delayed until an undefinite October. Now, Fudzilla announces its release date for 22nd of October, in Japan, at a price of around $757.
As specifications, the ION-based netbook  comes with Atom N270 CPU, 1280×800 display, 2GB of RAM, 250GB HDD, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, 1.3MP webcamera, 3xUSB2.0, VGA, HDMI [...]