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What needs to be worried about is both INTEL and now Nvidia are taking control of the netbook sector whilst poor old AMD who should have had there FUSION technology released eons ago cannot provide a GPU or a CPU compete with there rivals on power usage and performance....]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
You're right. But there's always a group that will fight for the "MOST" and "HIGHEST" when it comes to tech. If they offered a 1080p screen on these that required a magnifying glass to use you know there's be some asses somewhere praising it for the option. I agree, though. 1024x600 is a good, legible resolution on such a small screen.]]>Jul 21st 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
Anyhow this netbook has pretty strange specs, why the N230 I wonder?
Good to FINALLY see an ION netbook on the market though.]]>Jul 21st 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 22nd 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
I'd love to get a HP Mini with an ION, that'd rock!]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2669/3740985943_1fcbd74da8.jpg

I know, not dramatic enough AND you would have had to read the article.

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And I can't help but think "Vaio" when I look at this thing.]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
Looks like blue and white are just just box art. Still have a nice black option though.]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/]]>Jul 21st 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
Well, quite frankly I have a few reasons to want ION over GMA-anything:

1. GMA-Anything doesn't support Dx10, and won't accelerate Windows Vista/7's desktop. I'm looking for a slick, rich multimedia experience on my netbook--be it WMP, Silverlight, or anything else. ION will give me this capability, including solid drivers from nVidia.

2. ION will make light gaming a reality. Quake 3, UT, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, even Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat are viable on this hardware. This means I can take this to my friend's place on the weekends to check email, play DotA, etc.

3. HDMI/HD playback. Pretty self-explanatory; I can hook this up to my TV to stream Hulu and watch other media. And, with the understand that GPU-based acceleration is gaining momentum (especially in formats such as Silverlight, HTML5, etc.) this should only improve for ION.

4. Development. Visual Studio 2008/2010 and the use of Windows Presentation Forms (WPF) can be taxing on cruddy hardware, especially when I'm trying to do something intensive. Add photoshop, eclipse, and other development tools, and the last thing I want is the graphics stuttering and wrecking the party. I know a single-core Atom 1.6/1.83 won't run the show for development incredibly well, but it'll certainly be bottle-necked by garbage GMA graphics.]]>Jul 21st 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
The Z-series Atom GPU, the GMA500 has a PowerVR core and drivers for Vista/Windows 7 are available from Intel:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=3001&DwnldID=16943&lang=eng&iid=dc_rss

and supports Windows Vista/Windows 7 desktop transparency effects/Direct X 10.0.

ION with Atom will *not* play HD Flash smoothly. Flash does *not* support GPU offload so the GPU will make virtually no difference to your HD Flash/Fullscreen Flash playback experience. Yes we all hope this improves sometime soon with an update from Adobe.

Like others I find the choice of the Atom 230 to be odd. This thing is going to suck battery life like nobody's business.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
Similarly, it will run like a dog on an Atom even if you somehow put the latest $1,000 graphics card in there. Eclipse eats memory for breakfast and likes CPU too - graphics? It won't care. (By the way, I have an old PC that's about Atom-level, Eclipse is actually perfectly bearable really for Java... probably not for PHP though.)

If you do ever see Eclipse repainting slowly, that's because you have a memory, I/O, or CPU bottleneck - nothing to do with graphics. So if you want a netbook that runs well with Eclipse, look for one with lots of RAM and with an SSD that has good no-stutter random read and random write performance (and, yeah, good luck with that) rather than one with a fancy graphics chip. Of course the fancy graphics chip won't hurt but it won't help either.

I suspect the same's largely true for the other apps you list in this section (possible exception for Photoshop, I'm not sure if that supports the relevant Nvidia chip for some of the accelerated processing it has).

I absolutely take your point re Windows 7 though. Hadn't realised that that couldn't even do the pretty-looking desktop without DX10.

Also, Intel integrated graphics is indeed embarrassingly shit given its high (not quite as high as Ion, but still high) power consumption, so competition is badly needed in this area. I'd personally rather it was competition as in, still crappy graphics but with dramatically reduced power usage, rather than competition for better graphics in similar or slightly higher power usage, but obviously there is room for both.]]>Jul 21st 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
I would buy a netbook in a heartbeat if it had the Ion platform and a dual core Atom (yes, I know, not yet existent for the mobile market). HP's new Mini 5101 looks amazing -- if it had the Ion I'd be all over it.]]>Jul 21st 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/
I don't own a netbook, but got my mother one for her birthday. It really is an amazing little thing, and after using it I was changed in how I thought about them. They're nowhere near as bad as you'd think, and the portability is great. If you already have a desktop but do some traveling, there's no point in buying a laptop instead of a netbook. The last two laptops I had both crapped out in roughly a year and a half's (or less) time -- right out of the warranty time. So, instead of getting a $2,000 paperweight, I'd rather pay $500 to get something that's going to be more replaceable and work just as fine for the majority of tasks.]]>Jul 21st 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/point-of-view-mobii-netbook-has-ion-inside-psychedelia-outside/Jul 21st 2009 1:58PM