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Was gonna say that the Zino has potential if it does ship with higher end parts at a reasonable price, but hit 'reply' too soon.

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http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=1652

@AtomicPlayboy: Unless you want a higher end gaming experience, the first gen IONs do alright. The 330 can do L4D at 720p.

If ASRock put a single half-height slot to obviate the need for an external tuner (or built a tuner into it - user removable for CableCARD adapters), this would be the best of breed (when compared to the Revo or the new Dell unit).]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
The bundleware (remote) is fine so long as you actually like it.]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
B) Dual core Atom n330 is 64 bit compatible.

Just keep in mind that the n330 is still an atom, I've been reading up on AVSForum where n330 users complain about MCE not being "snappy" as a CULV and Flash video I've heard mixed stuff.]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
It's the bee's knees for h264 in other containers including 720p and higher HD-PVR recordings.

...slightly noisy though. (asrock and revo both)]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
Anand Shimpi over on anandtech tested an ASRock Atom 330 plus Ion overclocked to over 2GHz and it couldn't handle Hulu, either HQ or full screen. The reason is that currently Adobe Flash doesn't do much if any GPU offload. So scaling to full screen etc just kills the CPU.

It sounds like most of the ULV processors in the new thin 'n lights CAN handle Hulu in comparison. I assume even the single core versions.

This should all work out when Adobe updates Flash to allow GPU offloading. They've already demo'd Flash acceleration on Ion. I'll consider one of these for a TV-side internet streamer once Adobe actually ships this. Supposedly in the first quarter of 2010, but I'm not holding my breath.

If they take too long getting it done some momentum behind Silverlight or HTML 5 or ... just might kill them off.]]>Oct 29th 2009 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
All of the flash content including siverlight via netflix works fine.
The 1080p WMV/MKV content is pretty much impossible to watch unless you off load it to the GPU. Using DXVA the results are amazing. Flawlesss.

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DVD's look great, ripped DVD's that are streaming from my MediaSmart Server look great, Netflix streaming looks pretty good, Amazon Unbox videos look ok. Internet TV throuh WMC looks....not good (standard def?) , but no stuttering. Hulu looks bad, and stutters so much I can't watch it. ]]>Oct 29th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3566&p=3

Turns out it was a Zotac not ASRock Ion board, OC'd to 2.0GHz. Would *not* play Hulu HQ (480p) smoothly fullscreen on a 720p desktop, let alone a 1920x1080 desktop. So if you have your screen resolution set to watch 1080i content, which you CAN on the Ion as long as its not Flash, then you'll have to drop your screen resolution to watch Hulu with a decent frame rate if you want to watch full screen.

I don't know why everybody here is saying it works, but I'm taking Anand's word for it...]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
I saw them online and the Blu-ray one costs $AU 675, the normal DVD one costs $AU 345...

So yeah!]]>Oct 29th 2009 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=167229757]]>Oct 29th 2009 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/That's the one I want to see tested for HD playback.



]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
bluray, h264? yes!

hulu? sorry.

what year is this?]]>Oct 29th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 29th 2009 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/
I want THAT. Why is no one SELLING an ION platform in Pico-ITX form factor?]]>Oct 30th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/asrock-readying-three-ion-powered-nettops-one-with-a-bd-drive/Oct 31st 2009 6:26PM