Nvidia has an Ion customer
NVIDIA HAS FINALLY found another customer for its Ion platform.
Asus has just announced it is releasing a 1201N multimedia netbook and looking at the spec we noticed that the Green Goblin's rarely seen Ion platform is on board.
According to the press release, the £399 Eeeeeeeeee PC 1201N breaks boundaries of what is possible on the netbook platform, owing to the dual core processor and dedicated Nvidia Ion graphics chip.
Aside from the Ion chipset, it's pretty standard netbook fare, featuring a 12.1-inch display running on an Intel Atom 330 Dual Core Processor, 2GB of DDR2 memory and a 250GB hard drive, with 500GB of online storage thrown in as well.
The specifications dictate up to five hours of battery life.
According to Asus, the Windows 7 powered Asus Eee PC 1201N is ideal for anyone who wants a netbook with the ability to watch HD video, share and edit photos, play casual games and convert video to a portable media player.
With the upcoming Flash Player 10.1 from Adobe, it will soon handle streaming HD video as well as a high-end desktop PC, Asus tells us.
Still, it is nice to see the ION getting an airing. µ
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There are other manufacturers than ASUS - ASRock has had ION systems out for months now...
Knock up the price and knock off an hour of battery just so you can watch HD on a *really* small screen.
Completely pointless IMO
I paid less than this last year for my Acer Aspire 2920 which has a 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 12.1" widescreen display, 2GB Ram and a 250GB hard drive. Plus it plays HD stuff!
Maybe if they dropped the price of this to say around £250, I'd be interested.
I can't help but think that manufacturers are whacking the prices up on Netbooks, I mean you could get more laptop for your money at the same price.
Rob
The first sentence says Nvidia finally found ANOTHER...
i'd rather see 10" version (with 12" resolution but - possibly - cheaper). i already have laptop on my desk and ultraportable/small is all that i need. regular netbooks are almost perfect at this, except performance. give me the performance, keep the inches.
Since when does 12" = Netbook? When trying to find a Asus 901 the other day I realized that that Netbooks as we knew them have all but disappeared. 9" and under screens and SSD drives don't exist despite Asus defining the market with such little beasts that were so unpopular that EVERY PC maker rushed to copy it. Now Netbook means cheaply made, non-innovative underpowered junk that has lost its one niche, SIZE! WTF!
Still waiting for my 4.3" slide down keyboard X86 SSD just like Via had out, but couldn't make it for a decent price, for some unknown reason. I want my x86 hand-held and I want it for a decent price. But for some reason this low tech has to get bigger? This new shit is making my Asus 701 look micro small and high tech. What happened?
Hasn't Asus been nVidia's only ion customer?
@Narg: Apple doesn't count eh? :D
I find it interesting that on a technology forum there are users bashing a step forward.
Some of us refuse to buy a netbook if we can't fire up a game or two on it. That isn't as rare of a niche as you may think, considering that the HP Mini 311 has been selling like hotcakes. Those pretending that decent GPUs are not a selling point forget that more and more apps can be offloaded to the GPU provided that you have one made by a company that makes decent ones (Nvidia and ATI) and the drivers necessary to harness them.
Stop knocking new tech. This looks good to me. I'd actually rather have a Congo based netbook but sadly things like the Wind12 U230 and Acer Ferrari One have not been released in the US.
The Register (amongst others) has already reviewed the nVidia Ion-based Samsung N510.
The few that I've read have fitted firmly in the category of "big cheesy grin and two thumbs up".
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/17/review_netbook_samsung_n510/
"Aside from the Ion chipset, it's pretty standard netbook fare, featuring a 12.1-inch display running on an Intel Atom 330 Dual Core Processor"
What utter crap. The Attom 330 is a DESKTOP chip. Being put into a netbook.
Not very standard.
Someone has already pointed out the 12" screen as well
Can someone please make a standard mini-PCI-E form factor?
I would like to buy a graphics card for my netbook so I can play games on it. The small screen means that it should only need 1/3 the power of a desktop to play most games at decent frame rates.
So please, can someone invent the netbook/laptop upgrade slot for graphics?
ASUS - please invent an upgradeable laptop, chassis/case etc.