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Giada Slim N10 – Slim…Slimmer…Slimmest!

November 17th, 2009

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, [...]

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Myka ION – The Fanless Nettop

November 11th, 2009

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, [...]

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Nvidia Contest – Win an Ion-based Netbook

November 4th, 2009

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 [...]

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Synergy – New Ion-based motherboards from Zotac

October 28th, 2009

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 [...]

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Haleron H-BOX

October 28th, 2009

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 [...]

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Lenovo’s S12 – Final Launch Date

October 21st, 2009

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 [...]

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ION 2 Confirmed For 2009

October 16th, 2009

Good news, everyone! ION 2 has been officially announced for a 2009 release. ION 2 will still have support for Intel Atom and VIA Nano processors as well as other similar processors. Newer mobile processors with DMI chipsets like the Arrandale Core i5 will not be supported by ION 2. No exact release date yet, [...]

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Curious ION-based MoBo: DFI Hybrid P45-ION-T2A2

October 8th, 2009

Just getting back from my holiday and found a rather curious concept from motherboards producer DFI: the hybrid P45-ION-T2A2 packs two PCs onto one motherboard. How is that possible ?
The guys at TweakTown were invited at DFI HQs for an exclusive look at the “thing”. On the same board you can find an Intel Atom+Nvidia [...]

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MAG PC is Zotac’s First ION Nettop

October 7th, 2009

Zotac has finally decided to jump into the ION nettop game with its new MAG PC. Zotac has been the biggest name in ION motherboards since the beginning, and now it looks like they plan to extend that dominance into the nettop realm. The MAG, or mini all-in-one giant, comes with either a dual-core Atom [...]

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Adobe Officially Supports Accelerated Flash on NVIDIA Cards

October 5th, 2009

We have heard about Adobe working on a new version of Flash that would take advantage of NVIDIA’s CUDA technology, but now it has officially been announced. This means that low power computers that use an NVIDIA graphics processor can enjoy smooth HD Flash video playback while at the same time reducing the load on [...]

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