We were a little disheartened last week when we didn't hear a peep out of
NVIDIA about Ion 2, but Pierre of
Blogee has dug up some dirt on the next-generation graphics. The ASUS Eee PC ET2010PNT's got a pretty nice looking 20-inch HD multitouch display, but it's also powered by the new
Intel Pine Trail D510 processor and NVIDIA GeForce G310 graphics -- which according to the document is being dubbed as Ion 2. Sure, we already knew that the next version of Ion would be
compatible with Intel new Atom platform, but we didn't know that they'd be tossing aside the GeForce 9400M for its G310 graphics card (which is apparently just a
rebranded G210).
As we thought, it looks like this will be a discrete solution, and it appears (if the benchmarks are accurate) that the
G310 will be considerably faster than the current Ion platform. We're just hoping the 589MHz 16-core CUDA chip has been tweaked for better power efficiency when it comes to cramming it into netbooks.
No word on when the ET2010PNT will be available, but given the initial hold up we saw with Ion 1 we aren't overly optimistic that it will be any time soon.
posted January 14th 2010 8:46PM
Maybe Intel was right. This is overkill.
@revoltracers Hard to truly say until you see the battery life. NVIDIA's been claiming it's better than the original ION, so we'll see...
@revoltracers
Not for AIO machines its not.
@revoltracers
And 640k is enough for anyone :p
@hiro256 I find 2GB to be quite enough :P
@revoltracers
If they did it right and made a nice replacement for the NM10 this thing should be able to switch between the GMA3150 and the nVIDIA GPU, keeping the battery almost as good as the old chip but with more features and power when not on battery mode.
Otherwise... It's an ION1 with more muscle! Still good.
@(Unverified) If the Ion 2 is switchable like the new Asus UL30JT is then it has me very excited. It would be switching "second by second" automatically so it would save battery life even when doing graphically heavy task.
So my G210m is an Ion 1.5 haha
Replace the Pinetrail with SU7300.
Ok now you got me.
As soon as I'm gonna spot this baby I'll but a touch screen AIO nettop.
Not sure what I will do with it yet, but as long as it packs wifi and an HDMI outlet I'm gonna find some space for it.
G310M just G210M renamed?
so glad ATi is back in the mobile game in full force, nVIDIA has been rebranding generation after generation
@JeremyBenthem NVIDIA's ways will catch up with them. ATi is making a comeback in a big way lately.
I feel like this post without the hyperlinks is semantically null. I feel that way, real hard.
@CtrlBurn Cool. Welcome to our medium. It's called "the web." Hope you like it!
@Nilay Patel
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why they get paid to do this. :)
Full HD at 1600*1200? Ain't it like 1920*1080 ... ASUFAIL.
@GV2811 Where did you find that?
@Vman Well If you look on the picture above, it says ;
20" (1600x1200) Full-HD display
@GV2811 anything more than 1920x1080 can technically display full HD, maybe they should rename it MORE THAN HD or HD++
@(Unverified) Erm 1600*1200 is smaller than 1920*1080, tbe 153600 pixels less. Full-HD is 1920*1080 and not 1600*1200...
HD Ready, Full HD, Quad HD, Ultra HD :)
I'm really hoping ion 2 will be available as a mini pci-e card so I can drop it into the dual core x100e I'm waiting for.
The problem with ION is that atom processors were too weak and caused bottleneck on graphic intensive tasks like gaming. The new Pinetrail isn't that much better as far as performance is concerned, and I don't see how it could compliment the performance of ION2's graphic capability. I think ION1/9400M+Pinetrail would probably make more sense.
Or it would make sense to pair it with at CULV processors . But ASUS UL30 already has a laptop with the SU7300&210M for about $800. It would be cool if someone can make a laptop with spec similar to ASUS UL30vt for less than $700 with ION2, but otherwise I just don't see ION2 doing well.. why pay $500-600 for a nettop with pinetrail+seriously handicapped G310 card, when you can spend a little bit more $ and something like UL30?
@(Unverified) Because people don't like spending that little bit more?
@(Unverified)
Who's saying anything about PineTrail? Neo X2 and Athlon X2 are coming to the Lenovo x100e. All it would take would be an Ion 2 mini PCI-E for everything to fall into place. Not that the HD 3200 it comes with is THAT bad for casual use.
@(Unverified)
You're also comparing apples to oranges, the UL30 is a 13" machine.
For around 600 the Lenovo x100e with Athlon x2 processor, HD3200 graphics, with a possibility of Ion 2 down the line is a much more economical option. Not to mention you get the trackpoint, the nice matte trackpad, and an 11.6" form factor. This is the perfect "netbook" everyone has been pining for.
Really Nvidia, maybe you should shift some resources from marketing to r&d. Coming up with new silicon for newer and better products=good. Having marketing slap some new name on a slightly retouched older product=bad. Sure Intel is playing model name soup with its product lines, but at least it has some new tech to show for it.