ion

Next-Gen Nvidia Ion: Pine Trail–Compatible, Better Performance

Intel’s Pine Trail Atom chips are pretty disappointing in the power department, so it’s good to see Nvidia step up with a new, Pine Trail–compatible line of Ion chips. If you want to watch HD YouTube on a netbook, read on.

December 5, 2009
Computing

Netbooks: What You Need To Know About The Next 6 Months

A bunch of great netbook upgrades are on the way—next-gen Intel processors in January; smooth HD video playback—but to spare you the brain hemorrhage of keeping track, we’ve laid it all out. Here’s what you need to know.

October 5, 2009
Software

Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news?

October 2, 2009
Computing

Asus EeeBox EB1501 Nettop: DVD Slot Drive, Ion Graphics

Wow, this could be my fallback plan for a lightweight entertainment PC if the Eee Keyboard ends up sucking. The EB1501 is the first EeeBox with an optical drive, Windows 7, and a classy new design.

September 15, 2009
Computing

HP Mini 311 With Nvidia Ion Transistor Graphics Comes For $US400

This might just be the netbook we’ve been waiting for: An Nvidia Ion-powered HP Mini with an 11-inch, 1366×768 display for 400 US bucks. And you can actually buy it soon! September 23. Did I mention it plays 1080p video awesomely?

September 14, 2009
Computing

Asus Eee Keyboard Confirmed For October!

Hell yes. Asus has finally committed to an October US and European arrival for its entertainment-PC-in-keyboard. The sleek device has a 5-inch touchscreen and uses Ultra Wideband HDMI (with receiver) to connect to your TV. I want it on my coffee-table.

September 1, 2009
Computing

Asus EeeBox EB1012 Has Ion Graphics, 1080p HDMI Output

We had heard that an updated EeeBox PC was coming, and now its up on Asus USA’s site. The compact EB1012 packs an Atom N330 processor, 250GB hard disk, 2GB DDR2-800 RAM (expandable to 4GB), Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n Wi-Fi.

August 21, 2009
Computing

Asus Eee Keyboard Expected “As Early As October”

In the latest twist of the Eee Keyboard’s delay, DigiTimes reports the entertainment-PC-in-a-keyboard should be ready “as early as October”. It also says the 20-inch Eee Top AIO, and two new ultra-thin U/UX series notebooks will arrive in September.

August 4, 2009

Nvidia Ion LE: So Windows XP Netbooks Don’t Have Crappy Graphics Either

The Ion LE is a quiet launch from the usually boisterous Nvidia: It’s a cheaper version of their Ion graphics chip for netbooks, stripped of DirectX 10 support, which is only needed in Vista, so hopefully it’ll find its way into more cut-rate XP-powered netbooks. [Fudzilla via Engadget] ]

May 25, 2009
Computing

Lenovo S12 Is the First Netbook With Nvidia Ion, Costs Under $US500

With the IdeaPad S12, Lenovo, as rumoured, is first out of the gates with a netbook based on Nvidia’s Ion chipset, and it’s a hell of a promising start: this 12-inch netbook promises the whole HD-playing, game-conquering Ion experience for around $US500.

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