Ion [ahy-uhn, ahy-on] noun: 1. a charged atom 2. nVidia's new two-chip product that works with the Intel Atom netbook CPU for affordable, portable performance.
I'm going to give you the same advice I'm currently giving to all my buddies: Unless you absolutely need a sub-$500 portable right now, wait.
Imagine a netbook
that can actually play modern first-person shooter games. Or a tiny
$500 PC that can quickly encode video. It's possible--I just saw it
with my own two eyes. nVidia recently came in to show off its two-chip
Ion platform, which marries an Intel Atom CPU with nVidia's 94000M
graphics processing unit. Honestly, the results surprised me.
Let
me back up for a second. I've been complaining that, as neat as
netbooks may be, I'm not buying one until their makers replace their
lame integrated graphics. I want to play games that are a little more
sophisticated than Peggle, and to watch good-quality video on the
machine's 10.2-inch screen. And that's exactly what's happening here....
More:http://www.pcworld.com/article/155566/nvidia_ion_turbocharges_intel_atom.html
I'm going to give you the same advice I'm currently giving to all my buddies: Unless you absolutely need a sub-$500 portable right now, wait. Imagine a netbook
that can actually play modern first-person shooter games. Or a tiny
$500 PC that can quickly encode video. It's possible--I just saw it
with my own two eyes. nVidia recently came in to show off its two-chip
Ion platform, which marries an Intel Atom CPU with nVidia's 94000M
graphics processing unit. Honestly, the results surprised me.
Let
me back up for a second. I've been complaining that, as neat as
netbooks may be, I'm not buying one until their makers replace their
lame integrated graphics. I want to play games that are a little more
sophisticated than Peggle, and to watch good-quality video on the
machine's 10.2-inch screen. And that's exactly what's happening here....
More:http://www.pcworld.com/article/155566/nvidia_ion_turbocharges_intel_atom.html