The Asus Eee PC 1201NL has been reviewed before, but the crew at GadgetMix has posted the results of their own hands-on testing. Apart from the typical battery life, build quality, and general performance comparisons, they also decided to benchmark the 1201NL using Capcom’s Street Fighter IV. Better still, they’ve shared a video (which you can watch after the break)….
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A few weeks ago we posted about a method for taking an HP Mini 311 netbook with Windows XP and NVIDIA ION LE graphics and installing some tweaked drivers to enable support for DirectX 10, a feature that previously only available if you had a full NVIDIA ION graphics card (without the LE). But if you don’t fancy editing your…
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The NVIDIA ION platform combines a low power Intel Atom processor with high performance NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics to enable low power computers to handle HD video, some modern video games, and other tasks that can take advantage of the graphics processor. But there are two versions of the ION platform: ION and ION LE. The only real difference that…
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The NVIDIA ION platform gets a lot of credit for enabling 1080p video playback on low power computers with Intel Atom processors. But NVIDIA ION systems are also pretty good at playing some (but not all) video games. I’m not much of a hardcore gamer, so I’ve been testing systems like the Asus Eee Top ET2002 with Age of Mythology,…
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The Acer AspireRevo is a tiny desktop computer with the guts of a netbook. In other words, it’s a nettop with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. It comes in several different configurations, but for the first time one of the more exciting models is available in the US. You can now pick…
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Remember those new HP Mini netbook model numbers I told you about, oh, I don’t know… yesterday? It looks like at least one of those notebooks could be a mini-laptop with an 11.6 inch display and NVIDIA ION graphics. Netbook News.de dug up a few product listings for an as-yet-announced machine called the HP Mini 311c. According to More Computers,…
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Yesterday Lenovo announced it would postpone the launch of the NVIDIA ION powered version of the IdeaPad S12 laptop until after Windows 7 was available. Now I’ve confirmed that Samsung, the other major company with an NVIDIA ION laptop in the works, is making the same call. The company decided that the Samsung N510 performs better with Windows 7 than…
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The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 is a 12.1 inch laptop with a 1280 x 800 pixel display. Right now, it’s available either with an Intel Atom CPU and integrated graphics or a VIA Nano processor and integrated graphics. But Lenovo has been promising since day one that the laptop would eventually be available with the NVIDIA ION platform as well, which…
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The Samsung N510 netbook is expected to begin shipping in a few weeks. And today Netbook Choice discovered that Samsung has posted the user manual for the laptop on its website. You can click this link to download it. For the most part, the manual confirms what we already knew, but it is nice to see that the RAM and…
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There may not be many netbooks on the market based on the NVIDIA ION platform yet, but it’s proving pretty popular with small, low power nettops (desktop PCs). Two of the latest companies to introduce nettops with dual core Intel Atom 330 processors and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics are Viako and FunTwist. Akiba PC Watch got to spend some hands=on…
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Hot on the heels of news that the Samsung N510 will be available in the US starting next month come two intriguing bits of information about the first NVIDIA ION-powered 11.6 inch laptop from Samasung: Netbook News Italia discovered a product listing indicating that the netbook will use the ION LE platform rather than the standard NVIDIA ION. What’s the…
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NVIDIA has introduced a slight variation on its ION platform, which bundles a low power Intel Atom processor with higher performance NVIDIA graphics. The new NVIDIA ION LE is pretty much exactly the same as the first generation ION, but according to Fudzilla, ION LE only supports DirectXv9, not DirectX 10. ION LE is designed for netbooks and nettops running…
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