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Nvidia has an Ion customer
TIN BOX MAKER Acer's model 532G appears to be a netbook that is designed for watching stuff thanks to the company being one of Nvidia's first ION customers.
It will play content on its own display at 720p resolution. Alternatively, users can connect the 532G's HDMI output to a secondary HD TV or LCD monitor to view it at 1080p resolution.
It does all this with an Nvidia Ion GPU and according to the company it is the first outfit to trust the Green Goblin with this role.
Powered by a 1.66GHz N450 Atom processor, the 532G netbook comes with 2GB RAM, a 320GB hard disk, a 10-inch high-resolution display, WiFi and optional 3G. The netbook measures 1-inch thick, weighs 1kg, battery life is claimed to be up to 10 hours and it will come in three colours - Pearl Silver, Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue. It will ship at the end of March but pricing is still unknown.
All up it appears to be a fairly meaty executive toy. You can take it on a plane, watch your favourite movie and then run a powerpoint presentation on a big screen when you get there. µ
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1.it's ION2
2.there are more design wins,eg asus reported a whole line up last week
3.this is acer first netbook with ion or ion2,asus,hp,lenovo,samsung,point of view all have ion powered netbooks and I expect most to offer ion2 units as well as intel's igp still is dreadful
The Acer Revo, netbox, which is basically a netbook without a screen and battery, has been running on an Ion chipset for months.
O...K....first, it would have been really good to mention that this is ION TWO (I had to find other competent articles to verify this). One gets the strong impression that the author may not even know the difference.
Second, the really interesting part is that this model has discreet and integrated graphics, and it claims it will only use tha former when necessary, to conserve battery life.
The entire premise of this short write-up: "first netbook with ION!" is not only incorrect, it misses the interesting part.