Dozens of IONs captured showing no charge whatsoever
By Tim Stevens 
posted May 13th 2009 10:09AM
posted May 13th 2009 10:09AM
posted May 13th 2009 10:09AM
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cation
you beat me, but i was just on my way to correct that myself.
Ions can be either positive or negative (anion/cation)
but we can't be too hard, they were journalism majors!
theyz fizixed itz!
"Ions have negative or positive charges, but from wha"
lolcation?
Have faith, and patience.
Ion + Win7 = win.
Actually,
Ion + Win7 = IonWin7
...but who's counting.
No,
Win7 / 7 = Win.
fixed
win7/win = 7 when P(Atom | Netbook) = handcramps + leprechauns.
Ah, but sqrt(log(win7 / 7)) = stfu maths isn't cool.
Win7 = Win * 7
actually
ionWin7=i*o*n*W*i*n*7
Surely you meant to write 'negative ions have negative charge'...
The ethernet port looks fake to me too....though it may just be the angle of the photo.
Appears to need moar e-.
"Ions have negative charges".
Actually, an ion is a particle with a positive or negative charge...
A neutron walks into a bar and asks: “Hey, how much for a beer?”
The bartender says, “For you, no charge.”
Mr Handy tells that joke in Fallout 3 :)
+1
@Alan Stargis
actually, 0.
@ Dez... ouch! :)
A cation goes up to her boyfriend. "I think I'm pregnant!" she says.
He responds, "Are you sure?"
"I'm positive!"
*bah-dum-CH!*
This might be a better picture - still looks suspect...http://www.ionbased.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/001054799.jpg
is this just fluff? why is this news?
Yeah...I read that article a few times and I am still not sure what it was about...
Hurtin ass article, with even more hurtin alliterations.
ION should just stay in the Netbook, Nettop, Media Server. It can barely handle HTPC task (but can only do it well one at a time like streaming HD contents). Even though it looks and sounds too good to be true, I think HTPC builders should stay clear of ION and go for a Mini ITX w/ LGA775 sockets and get a regular cpu for your HTPCs.
You do realize the reason it struggles is because media providers (Flash, etc.) need to optimize their software to utilize hardware, after which point, ION will roll through it--right?
And you also realize that Nvidia is working with said media providers to get this done ASAP?
Hit the Googs for proof.
@Justin
I'm just relating to what I saw on the review I saw, don't get me wrong I think it's awesome for Media Server & etc. but you speak of optimization from media providers as if it's a walk in the park. I'd say don't hold your breath on that. I have high hopes for ION but I will hold out till those optimizations roll in. No point jumping on the banner wagon and shell out top dollar for something which isn't optimized yet right? just hold your horses for 2-3 months we'll see then.
Justin is right. Flash is the single biggest drawback to the ION platform. For media playback, 1080p footage played back using something GPU aware (Media Center, WMP etc) is perfectly doable, as the 25% CPU usage demonstrates.
If Adobe would get their act together and enable the GPU for Flash playback then the ION platform would be a really good solution.
As it stands, I've seen little real improvement in Flash since Adobe bought Macromedia, and they've been promising/writing about GPU acceleration for ages. I can't see any REAL technical barrier for it not being implemented by now.
Urm Zotacs 775 ITX board has a 9300m GPU...
Explain how thats better than ION?
@ Oli D
the main drawback of ion is atom, so the 9300m paired with say an E5200 or any decent cpu on the Zotac would beat the living **** out of any ion system.
Also the x16 pcie slot means you could add a 295 if you wanted to and then run that in hybrid sli with the 9300... nuff said.
I didn't think you could cram HD graphics into a netbook. I was thinking it would either melt the system or have a five minute battery life.
They have to be charged oppositely, duh.
I wish some one creates an ion laptop with 1280x720 screen, hdmi/component output and netbook price
I wish they'd make one with a 2048x1536 screen, DVI (with dual-screen splitter support) + HDMI outputs, and the price of a solar calculator.
Two hydrogen atoms are walking down the street when suddenly one yells,
"Ahhhh, I've been hit, I've lost and electron"
The other replies
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm positive"
I thought this was going to be a bunch of Saturn Ions. No charge sounds about right.
I don't even get the general slant of the article, especially:
"We want to believe in ION, but it's going to take a little more than this..."
Was this supposed to be ironic? If so, it failed since you guys just posted a round up of ION mobo reviews an hour earlier, and have even done a hands on with Acer's ION product.
Could this not just be an engineering sample?
That might account for the lack of LEDs and a less-than-perfect HDMI housing?
Yes. That's exactly what this is.
When there's no news to report, blogs make news.
ah. Cheers Brian, I thought I was missing something.
Well the m-ITX pictures at the bottom of the page are the new Zotac mobo so I guess we can assume that maybe some of these other products will become real?
the white area around thehdmi probably has a green and yello lcd behind it.
How many non-ION netbooks on the market are ugly as hell? That's right. Most of them.
Better designs will come.
Some of these boards are pretty sweet, built in DC-DC:
http://www.ionbased.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/001055230.jpg
Does anyone know if these are meant to be passively cooled or not? Looking at the 2 last pics in the read, one shows the board with no fan on it, but the previous picture shows what I assume is the same box, with a separate fan.
Theres two boards, A and B
A - 330 dual core, fan included
B - 230 solo core, no fan
I would reccomend using the fan, because this has a DC-DC and a GPU and a CPU all under that heatsinkery.
Thanks Oli- Yeah I can imagine it getting pretty toasty in there.
Finally, Engadget writes a neutral article!
This is what happens when you are trying new MB design. You just throw it on an older mold (saving you the money of creating a new one for testing purpose). Once the MB design is final, the company will then proceed to finalize the design and create a new mold.
So, no, misters, this is just another guy trying out the ION platform inside an old netbook mold.