Nvidia Ion to Find a Home in Acer’s Hornet Nettop?
April 1st, 2009 by Joanna Stern
We knew it would be one of these days that Nvidia’s supercharged netbook/nettop platform would find itself a home. Engadget received information from a tipster indicating that Acer will soon launch its Hornet nettop that combines Intel’s Atom processor and Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M graphics chip. According to the information received the hornet will be more like a media center PC and support 1080p video playback over HDMI. With prices ranging from $149 to $299, low end models will sport an Atom N230 processor, 1GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive preloaded with Vista Home Basic. Higher end models will come with 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard drives. It also looks to come with a Wii-like remote that can be used for gaming as well as media control. Seems pretty promising, but when you gonna give us an Ion based netbook, Acer!?
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April 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
performance vs. battery life…..
I’d like to see these battery-tested in netbooks compared while playing 1080p flash on VGA output:
nVIDIA Ion vs. Intel GN40 vs. VIA Chrome9
Then, I wouldn’t have to re-encode for every device. We’re having to wait for basic GPU’s to catch up to the 1080p TV standard after years of them scoffing at analog NTSC.