NVIDIA Ion-based machines start appearing at Computex

We more or less knew that Computex would be a coming-out party for NVIDIA's Ion platform, and it looks like the company can't wait to get started: it juiced up an otherwise boring server press event by also displaying a small selection of Ion machines. Out to play were the now-familiar Acer Aspire Revo and the just-announced Lenovo IdeaPad S12, but MSI's new Wind Box D200 and a handful of other nettops and netbooks from various other Asian ODMs were also present, including a hot-looking nettop from ECS called the Morph. We're expecting to hear more official information about all these soon enough, but hit the read link for the full set of pics from Engadget Chinese in the meantime.

[CaptainReynolds Posted Jun 1st 2009 8:48PM]

will this be a good upgrade from my 1.5Ghz Celeron?
also, will my existing 256MB of PC133 work on this?

[Dafrety Posted Jun 1st 2009 8:53PM]

Anything would be a good upgrade from your Celeron. Your memory won't work, and you wouldn't want it to anyways, as it's much slower than what's out now.

[P1h3r1e3d13 Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:12PM]

256, man?
Hot stuff!

[TheWalrus Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:16PM]

I'm pretty sure PC133 is old enough to experience proton decay.

But in all seriousness, no, probably not

[aubreyq Posted Jun 1st 2009 8:51PM]

Nice. I'd love to get one of those and put XBMC on it.

Hot Chinese model on Engadget Chinese. I'm wondering if any of those comments means something like "I'd hit it!"

[hotfusion Posted Jun 1st 2009 9:25PM]

I have a feeling that people from the rest of the world are not as focused on sex as Americans do.

[TheRealBanana Posted Jun 1st 2009 10:45PM]

Nice engrish.

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Jun 1st 2009 9:26PM]

I would rather see some Mac Mini clones as they have a REAL CPU and can do HD Flash.

Sigh.

[ethana2 Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:13PM]

Funny, I'd rather have an Ubuntu PC half the price and see Adobe Flash BURN SCREAMING FOREVER IN THE DEPTHS OF HADES, but maybe that's just me. When playing HD video, cpu usage should be around 5% or something. The gpu should do the decoding and everything, and no Adobe could should be involved. Ever.

I hope JIT'd JS, HTML5, and theora/vorbis inclusion in Firefox open things up a bit.

[Lazarpandar Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:54PM]

Thats odd ethana, I'd rather have a PC that costs a dollar and can play crysis without drawing over 50w of power at any given time.

Also flash is pretty processor heavy, that's why even with Ion inside it'll struggle on Hulu.

[Joe Geronimo Posted Jun 1st 2009 10:52PM]

want pegatron now



actually i just want an ion mobo with a pcie 1x slot for my tuner

[superhobo Posted Jun 2nd 2009 6:19AM]

When you break Wind, does it smell?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 3rd 2009 5:11PM]

Wind Box? Hmmm.... Pull my floppy.