AMD sort of sat on the sidelines of the netbook space for the first few years, but this year the company introduced a line of chips that offered decent battery life, about 2-3 times the CPU performance of an Intel Atom chip, and support for 1080p HD video playback as well as 3D graphics acceleration. […]
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ATI says goodnight, future chips to wear the AMD brand name
Chip maker AMD acquired graphics company ATI a few years back but continued to produce graphics cards and processors under the ATI name. So while competitor Intel would pump out both CPU and GPU products with its own name on them, you could easily wind up buying a computer with an AMD CPU and ATI […]
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Acer launches DynaVivid graphics dock for the Acer Ferrari One
Better late than never, right? The Acer Ferrari One may have been one of the first mini-laptops on the market to sport an 11.6 inch display and a netbook-like design while using an AMD processor and ATI graphics instead of an Intel chipset. But it’s starting to look a bit dated now that we’re seeing […]
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Jetway introduces nettop with NVIDIA ION 2 graphics for under $300
Jetway’s latest Mini Top nettop is a small form factor desktop PC with a low power Intel Atom D525 dual core processor. But what really makes it stand out is the fact that the Jetway nettop is one of the first machines to hit the streets with next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics. Like similar nettops from […]
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Want better graphics for your laptop? MSI is launching an external graphics card
NVIDIA has done a pretty god job of demonstrating that low power netbooks and notebooks can actually be pretty effective machines for watching HD video and playing games if you add a decent graphics card. But that doesn’t have to mean throwing an NVIDIA ION or similar graphics card inside a laptop. You can also […]
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VIA unveils VX900 HD media processor for netbooks, nettops
The other day we got a first look at VIA’s new VX900 graphics processor. Now VIA has officially introduced the new product, which can be coupled with a VIAÂ low power CPU to provide HD Flash and desktop video playback. The VX900 media system processor uses VIA’s ChromationHD 2.0 video engine which supports hardware acceleration […]
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Shuttle B10 netbook with external graphics port
Shuttle is showing off a new 10 inch netbook with an Intel Atom N450 processor. That’s not the interesting part. This is: It has a GXT jack for connecting an external video card to the netbook. It’s either the poor man’s version of NVIDIA ION, or an excellent way to have a light weight, inexpensive […]
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NVIDIA launches next-gen ION graphics platform for netbooks, notebooks
NVIDIA has officially lifted the thin veil of secrecy that hadn’t really been covering the details about the company’s next-generation ION platform. NVIDIA ION pairs a low power Intel Atom-powered notebook with NVIDIA graphics to deliver higher performance HD video playback, 3D graphics acceleration for games, and CUDA technology for GPU-accelerated video encoding, recording, and […]
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Driver update kind of brings higher resolutions to netbooks higher resolution
The vast majority of 9 and 10 inch netbooks with Intel Atom chips and GMA 950 graphics have the same native screen resolution: 1024 x 600 pixels. While that’s generally good enough to view most web pages, some web content doesn’t really fit on a display that small. And some programs won’t even run if […]
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Intel calls NVIDIA ION “overkill” for netbooks
NVIDIA’s ION platform combines an Atom processor with NVIDIA GeForce graphics. The result is a computer platform that gives you notebooks and desktops with low power processors and the ability to handle 1080p HD video playback, Blu-Ray decoding, and a fair amount of 3D graphics processing for modern video games. You also get CUDA support, […]
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Could NVIDIA offer ION 2 as a netbook upgrade on a PCIe card?
Theres a rumor going around that NVIDIA’s next-generation ION platform could be available on a PCI Express card. French netbook blogger Pierre Lecourt reports that while he hasn’t seen any confirmation, he’s heard from several sources that NVIDIA will be taking a PCIe approach for the ION chipset in the future. And I have to […]
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Intel to double Atom graphics power in 2011
The Intel Atom Pine Trail chips that are due out in early 2010 will combine processor, graphics, and memory functions onto a single chip. This is designed to help save power while offering perhaps a slight performance boost. But Pine Trail chips aren’t supposed to be speed demons, and they won’t be that much more […]