NVIDIA Ion platform gets demonstrated at CES
By Darren Murph 
posted January 12th 2009 9:03PM
posted January 12th 2009 9:03PM
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I'm aware of this Sam. I was saying that I would be impressed if the nvidia chip was at least as small as the atom. You know because the nvidia chip is larger; therefor it would be impressive if it was "at least the same size". Just to clarify I mean the nvidia chip would be impressive if it was smaller than it is. Uhh.... ya know.
I have one thing to say
That's HOT.
The whole point of netbooks is that they are tiny cheap and relatively powerful. By jacking all this power into them you're gonna have super tiny, super powerful super expensive netbooks and does anyone really *need* a super tiny super powerful super expensive netbook? No. But people will get them so they can believe they look much more svelte now that they are playing World of Warcraft on a 8" netbook instead of that 17" monstrosity they normally have to drag around. If this jacks up the price of netbooks it's utterly pointless.
The point of the Ion platform is to provide more power that Atom+gma945 at the same price point, And I'm pretty sure that manufacturer will go for ddr2 instead of ddr3 to keep the cost down.
One for a carputer
One for a HTPC
One for a NAS
One for a laptop
:)
:)
Proper NAS requires RAID and more hard drives - good luck trying to push the Atom to do the necessary RAID calculations even if you did throw an Ion into a case that had more drives in it. Same for the HTPC idea, I'd rather see an integrated OTA antenna at least which might require a slightly larger case.
@wickedpheonix, really, you don't think the atom could handle running a RAID? really?
the question that should be asked is:
why do you need a GeForce 9400M for a NAS?... maybe make it your transcoding bitch?
is Nvidia going they to sell stand-alone motherboards or are they going to bundle it with a cpu? I've already got the intel motherboard bundled with 330, I'd love to swap it out and put it into this badboy. Does DDR3 make a difference in terms of energy consumption? Would it be negligible?
Where are the heat sinks and fans? This thing is gonna meltdown...
this reminds me of the VIA's ARTIGO Pico-ITX ultra-compact (http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/10/vias-artigo-pico-itx-ultra-compact-barebones/) but on fire!
based on the price of the Pico-ITCX I feel this will be 300$ to 400$ if not more.
I am thinking this will be sold without the add-in card for 200$. if only the standard audio was on the card without the add in card it would be great for all my nieces and nephews who call from all over the world for me to help then with there PC.
I would have expected AMD and ATI to come out with something like this but they seem to be dead in the waters for some reason.
come on AMD I am one of those strange ppl who still believe in you.
I would be very, very interested in picking one of these up, just what I saw there - reference box and that's it. That is some seriously amazing tech. Of course given it's mobility you'd see me throw in a SSD at the very least, but still - throwing this in a car or otherwise just keeping this in my laptop bag with a small LCD monitor and running Synergy whenever I have a little extra desk space or something like that.
If this thing can decode 1080P h.264 consistently, streaming over gigabit ethernet, I think I may finally have to build a home theatre PC.
How much of a tool is that guy "seven DOT one audio"
whoa... it's not nice calling other people names and are you sure you're not 1 also? 7.1PCM audio is in the hdmi specification.
http://www.audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/audioholics-hdmi-1-3-q-a
he was referring to the use of the word "DOT" instead of "point". it's just wierd to say 'seven dot one' instead of 'seven point one'.
Shame Intel isn't selling the Atom without the 945GC :(
So manufacturers will have to buy the Atom, 945GC and Ion, then throw away the 945GC...
So this isn't going to be as cheap as Intel's platform.
Or is that really the case?
I hope it will run crysis :P
What is this, a computer for ANTS?!
It needs to be at least...... THREE TIMES THIS SIZE!!!
That made me laugh for a straight minute straight through the minute!
Ugh, according to this video they want to sell the whole thing as a package for $499:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/business/Biggest_Friend_at_CES__Smaller_Net_Books_Bay_Area.html
That's just too expensive. Did Intel push them around and say, "We'll only sell you our Atoms if you bundle it as a whole system" so it wouldn't take away from Intel's chipset sales for netbooks?
I understand that it can do full 1080p and all that, but I could buy the Atom mobo & CPU at Newegg, add a $40 Nvidia card, memory and HDD and have everything but 7 DOT 1 audio (you guys are nuts; who says POINT anyways??) for under $350.
I'd buy one at $349 but no higher. Let's hope and Pray that Nvidia makes the individual parts available for purchase or ION will be worthless.
@sbyte1,
oh crap, I thought it would be fanless - perfect platform for htpc.
More powerfull Mac Mini's is coming!
can you say mac nano?
MythTV .22, when will you be released so that we can take advantage of VDPAU (out of trunk)?
This would be an awesome front-end w/ VDPAU on.
We'll if you guys havn't realized. GPU processors Exceed CPU processors by miles far.
Theres a reason why a 300 dollar graphics card so much, but buying just a quad core 2.0 chip sets only costs like 250.
ATI is also starting to use Graphics card to boost system processes [basically making ur GPU into a CPU] and for them has worked out great.
I beleive Nvidia is doing the same thing here the CPU and GPU work dynamically to solve problems.
Now all we need is to rig a GTX295 GPU and this would become godlike.
How many watts does it take. where is the power supply?