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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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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DirectX 10 Enabled For ION LE

October 30th, 2009

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 [...]

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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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ASUS Releases the ION packing EeeBox EB1501

October 2nd, 2009

ASUS brings an impressive offering to the nettop world with its EB1501 nettop. Not only does it have ION, but it also comes with the dual-core Atom 330. It comes with all of the usual ION features like HDMI etc. but this nettop stands apart from the rest in a few ways. First, you can [...]

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Asus – Full Ion-based Offering

August 31st, 2009

Netbooked managed to get some “inside intel” on Asus’ near-future roadmap. After the AIO series (EeeTop ET2002, ET2002T), the Nettop series (EeeBox EB1012) and the AT3N7A-I motherboard, a new Ion-based device will be available in Q4 2009 – the EeePC 1201N netbook.

Although not spectacular, the specifications are rather interesting: the N270 Atom processor takes place [...]

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Cheap Netbook From China

August 31st, 2009

In a recent article on China-related technology site Shanzai, an Ion-based netbook produced by and for the Chinese market is presented. The Chinese PC manufacturer CASZH created a prototype (no name for the “toy”, yet) of a netbook with Atom 230 processor and Nvidia Ion graphics.

Regarding the specs of the netbook, there’s no “revolution” inside: 10.1″ [...]

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New Motherboard Coming From Asus

August 28th, 2009

Asus AT3N7A-I – that’s the name of the new Ion-based motherboard launched on the market. The team at BlogEee prepared a review of it:

The motherboard packs a 1.6 GHz Dual-core Atom 330 processor and supports Dual-channel DDR2 800MHz memory, 7.1 channels audio (S/PDIF also), Bluetooth, eSATA and SATA connections.  The HDMI port is also present [...]

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