Nvidia Ion – Adds high end graphics to your netbook
Nvidia has announced a new platform for netbooks , that is designed to deliver high end graphics similar to that of a PC, with their new Nvidia Ion Platform.
The Nvidia Ion Platform will be able to deliver HD video and high end 3D gaming to your netbook, the platform combines Intel’s Atom processor with a Nvidia GeForce 9400m GPU, and it is likely to be released in the first half of 2009.
The new Nvidia Ion platform will powerful enough to run Windows Vista and Windows 7 on netbooks, and according to Nvidia this new platform will generate less heat than the current Atom system, whilst offering the same battery life.
This new platform is likely to only add an extra $50 to netbook prices, and if it delivers the graphics performance Nvidia are claiming, we could see it in the majority of netbooks by the end of next year.
Nvidia via Laptopical
Update
The first picture shown is of the new Ion Reference, which is a small desktop PC like the Dell Optiplex 160.
“This Ion reference design is a full-fledged PC that supports full-spec 1080p HD video, popular PC games, and Windows Vista Premium. OEM designs can be even smaller.â€
December 19th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I thought external processing was done with? If I was into high-video or serious video gaming, I’d want to know if I could cluster these things…
December 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I think the new platform will be actually built into the netbooks rather than being external, the first picture is of a new Ion desktop PC.
“This Ion reference design is a full-fledged PC that supports full-spec 1080p HD video, popular PC games, and Windows Vista Premium. OEM designs can be even smaller.”
It is designed to be similar to current Nettops like the Asus and Dell ones.
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December 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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December 19th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
That does seem useful, but the Atom is hardly a high performance platform. It’s less than half as powerful (per cycle) as a Celeron-M. It may end up being the bottleneck, even with games. I also can’t see an Atom of any speed running Vista Premium well.
December 20th, 2008 at 1:51 am
9400M is NOT high end. For gaming it is unacceptable.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:22 am
I’d rather see something like this using the 9800GTX m in SLI and maybe use the VIA Nano or maybe an AMD Turion X2 as the CPU, if they can fit it into a laptop they can fit that into a laptop they can fit it into something like this.
9400m is fine if you wanna play WoW and watch videos, but its slow for most anything made in the last 2 years.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:30 am
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December 20th, 2008 at 8:13 am
@ Dave, Hi Dave I agree it is not high end gaming, but it would be great inside a netbook compared to their current capabilities.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:47 am
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December 20th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I think that the companies are losing sight of what netbooks are for- long battery life for easy tasks, not watching HD video and playing Crysis (joke!) in your average internet cafe on your nice 9″ screen. I don’t see the point of having a superpowered (relatively) netbook. I would like a tiny desktop like that, but how much use would it have either?
December 21st, 2008 at 1:31 am
This is a stupid product. If a person wanted to play games they wouldnt have purchased a netbook.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:47 am
I agree.
These are designed to be portable internet/business machines. Peripherals are useless unless the netbook is your primary machine.
December 21st, 2008 at 7:34 am
I think some of you guys are missing the point, this is not going to be an add on for netbooks, it will be built in.
I would love to be able to watch HD videos on my netbook whilst I am on a plane, and the extra cost of $50 per netbook seems worthwhile.
December 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
You watch HD videos on a netbook? With what, an HD monitor you bring as carry-on?
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 am
this is like taking a step backwards and totally unacceptable for gaming !
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
LeftyAce wrote “You watch HD videos on a netbook? With what, an HD monitor you bring as carry-on?”
My netbook happens to have a video output device integrated into it from the factory. It displays at 1024×600 pixels, which is well over 720p.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
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December 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
the resolution of 720P video is 1280*720, i don’t see how your output is well over that ….
December 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Good product, but not for netbooks, rather for a 24/7 Linux Home Theatre machine, proxy server, Myth TV, etc. Wonder how much power it draws.
December 26th, 2008 at 12:23 am
The only problem is that there will not be any atoms sold without an intel chipset. The atom will be soldered to the mainboard so this product is renered useless by Intel
December 26th, 2008 at 3:44 am
^^^
yes, this seems like would be more of a space saving workstation/HTPC over a gaming rig.
December 28th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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January 1st, 2009 at 7:02 am
More games choice for netbook owners! good news
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
im confused, i mean i see how your adding allot to the graphical side of things but netbooks usually have very low specs, i cant imagine being able to play Crysis on a netbook even with one of these things, shouldnt the RAM requirements alone kill it?
February 7th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Diamond Says:
shouldnt the RAM requirements alone kill it?
no because it comes with 2 GB DDR3-1066 CAS 7, it can play call of duty 4 at low setting
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