CES '09: Nvidia Shows Off Ion

[cangelini]

Some things have to be seen to be believed. At first, we weren’t particularly blown away by the idea of Nvidia’s Ion platform. But the near finalized platform now looks vastly more promising.

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[Shadow703793]

Tegra remains the company’s ultra-mobile architecture of choice.

Too bad it's an ARM CPU.

 

[Guest]

Awesome!

I've always been a huge fan of NVIDIA ( Except the little faulty GPU incident that happened last year) I expect great things from them and I think the Ion may be a fair entry level PC. Heck it may even force ATI to produce a similar project ( AMD said they were NOT getting into the nettop CPU market, but nothing about the nettop graphics market 😉 )

 

[gwolfman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFEUPY6W1r8
~30fps @ 1024x768

 

[ethaniel]

Me wants! That thing pwns the 945 chipset. Let's hope they start selling it soon.

 

[Guest]

Keep us updated!
Atom 2Core on this platform could possibly be the best desktop for low power requirements!
Pitty it does not come with PCIE 16x or pcie 2 (so far).

probably an excellent machine for Windows 7!

 

[niz]

Me want too!
Its absolutely perfect for my Mythtv frontend I'm planning.

 

[V3NOM]

me want 3 if its cheap 😀

 

[cabose369]

see nettops to me don't make much sense.

For example... this nettop will cost $400USD.

For $399CDN you can get an Acer (crap I know but using it as an example) desktop with a Pentium Dual Core processor (which will be A LOT faster than an Atom processor) 2GB Memory, 320GB Hard Drive, DVD Burner. All you need to do then is spend $50 or so on an Nvidia 8400/9400 or 8500/9500GT graphics card and for the same price as this nettop have a WAYYY better machine that is much faster and can do a lot more.

 

[niz]

Cabose369: yeah point taken but I really like the idea of a tiny/silent box.

 

[shachar2]

you might want to write a small paragraph review on the technology/atom and what it means, not everybody is following you 24/7 and knows what you're talking about bozo!

 

[timaahhh]

Really shachar? Tom's has at least one in-depth review of the atom, and this article pretty much covers what the atom is about. A lightweight low clocked not very capable processor glued to a weak power consuming chipset. If you wanna know more about that just read the review, its in the CPU section of the website... Just looking over it I saw 3 references to the atom, one review, one benchmark, and one comparison to similar platforms, in the first two or three pages.