According to a report from DigiTimes, Acer has placed orders with NVIDIA for the company’s upcoming ION 2 platform. The current NVIDIA ION platform consists of a low power Intel Atom N270 or N280 processor and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics. It’s not entirely clear how ION 2 will work, since it’s designed to work with […]
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Gigabyte M1022X gets a cartoony paint job – in Taiwan, anyhow
Been wanting to purchase a Gigabyte netbook, but you wanted to hold off for a model with cutesy vectors on the lid? Your wait is over! So long as you’re heading to Taiwan, that is. The cutesified M1022x pictured above is only available there – and while I’m not sad about missing out on this […]
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Asus UL30VT with discrete graphics now shipping
The Asus UL30VT is a 13.3 inch thin and light laptop with switchable graphics. That means you can either use the integrated GMA 4500MHD graphics chipset when battery life matters more than performance. But you can turn on the NVIDIA G210 discrete graphics processor with 512MB of DDR memory when you need a boost for […]
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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta with GPU acceleration arrives
Flash video is tough on CPUs. Netbooks have relatively slow CPUs. As a result, netbooks and desktops with low power Intel Atom processors have had a tough time handling some high quality and high definition Flash video since day one. Well, today is officially day two, thanks to the beta release of Adobe Flash Player […]
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How to enable DirectX 10 support on NVIDIA ION LE
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. […]
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Asus UL30A unboxing and first look – Video
It’s been a busy day here at Liliputing HQ. Not only did a friendly FedEx guy drop off an HP Pavilion MS214, he also had an Asus UL30A laptop with him. Now, to be honest, I’m much more interested in the Asus UL20A than the UL30A. The UL20A is an 11.6 inch model that starts […]
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Vivante, China partner on netbook chips
China’s Academy of Sciences (ICT)Â is working with US based Vivante to develop low power chips for netbooks. ICT is behind the MIPS-based Loongson CPU used in the Emtec Gdium netbook. And Vivante, which is an embedded graphics technology company, has agreed to work with ICT to develop GPUs for use in Chinese netbooks. The […]
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Updated driver for Intel GMA 500 graphics brings performance boost
While a huge number of netbooks released over the past year are equipped with Intel Atom N270 or N280 processors and integrated GMA 950 graphics, Intel also offers another chipset that shows up in a handful of netbooks and mini-laptops. For instance, the Dell Inspiron Mini and Sony Vaio P both use Intel Atom Z520/530 […]
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Asus Eee PC 1000HV scores mixed results on HD video test
The Asus Eee PC 1000HV, which is only available in Italy at the moment, is the first Eee PC netbook to feature a dedicated graphics card. It offers improved graphics performance when playing video games or handling other tasks that would make the Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics found in most netbooks choke. But Netbook […]
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Broadcom’s HD video accelerator smiles for its close-up
Broadcom’s Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator is a PCI-E card that will let netbooks with low power processors like the Intel Atom handle HD video playback at resolutions up to 1080p. Normally the processors found in netbooks aren’t up to the task, but the Broadcom video accelerator takes most of the heavy lifting away from […]
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Cyberlink PowerDVD optimized for computers with NVIDIA Ion, Broadcom chips – Video
You can throw all the NVIDIA ION and Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Video Accelerators you want into netbooks and nettops. If you don’t optimize software applications to take advantage of those chips, you won’t notice any sort of performance improvements. NetbookNews.de caught up with the folks from Cyberlink at Computex, where they were demonstrating a […]
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Lenovo launches IdeaPad S12, NVIDIA ION graphics optional
If you were a little underwhelmed by Lenovo’s last mini-notebook launch (the IdeaPad S10-2 which was a minor update to the original S10), the IdeaPad S12 should take your blues away. While this little puppy is a bit on the large side for a netbook, thanks to its 12 inch display, it has one killer […]