Be on the lookout for Netbooks and Nettops (mini-desktops) based on Nvidia's powerful yet bite-sized ION platform, as the first group of PCs to utilize the technology are coming in Q2 of this year, which we are now currently in as of yesterday.
Promising to be the solution for keeping your home theater looking sleek and capable while using the least amount of space possible, better performance for games like Call of Duty 4, and oral sex on command, ION sounds too good to be true.
But it isn't. How do I know? Nvidia got a bunch of game developers to tell me how it's going to one-up Jesus himself, that's how. Here, see for yourself. Excited? You should be, apparently.
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I just picked up a Asus 1000HE, I slapped a 320 gig, 7200 RPM HDD and 2 gigs of ram in it. It's running the Atom N280 (1.6 Ghz, 667 FSB) chipset. It'll play 1080p videos just fine and run older games, HL2 will run at lowest settings at around 15-20 FPS, and it is definitely limited by the on-board GPU.
The ION chip set in this thing would most likely make the Source engine play smoothly on lower settings. HL2 requires "Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card." With a miniature 9 series in one of these net books, it'll be a fine mini Source gaming machine.