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Cube-N7DT, ZOTAC ZBOX – More nVidia ION 2 nettops

We talked about the launching of nVidia’s ION 2 graphics solution a week ago. This is a follow-up of its critically acclaimed first version, the nVidia ION, a graphics solution that offers a more robust video performance than the more basic but widely used Intel GMA solution.

nVidia has touted the original ION for HD viewing

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nVidia ION 2 is Here: Next-Gen Graphics for your Netbook/Nettop

We talked up nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks a while back — mainly because it gave a more robust graphics foundation to an already thin netbook platform. Where the Intel GMA integrated video fails, ION graphics gave netbooks a fighting chance for displaying better video resolutions, better gaming capabilities, high definition video, and (shock!)

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nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook

nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.

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ASUS Eee PC 1201N — Fastest Netbook of the moment?

If there are characteristics that should be expected from a netbook — to be lightning FAST is not one of them. A netbook is portable, trendy, affordable, mobile, light, and undeniably cute. So if what we hear about the ASUS Eee PC 1201N is all true, that is not such a bad thing at all.

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Flash 10.1 update improves HD-viewing on ION netbooks

We talked about nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks here, and here great news already for those people who chose an ION-powered netbook over an Intel GMA 950 — Adobe has the new Flash 10.1 update which improves HD-viewing for Flash videos on ION graphics. CNET.com delivers the news:

…we’re pleased to see the Flash player

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nVidia ION: Better graphics for netbooks?

If there is one saving grace for the green guys of nVidia this season — their behinds have been kicked soundly by the red guys of AMD/ATI seemingly on all fronts — it is the relative success of nVidia ION. Technically ION is used to refer to a motherboard configuration by nVidia with an Intel Atom processor — specifically for netbooks. But what’s great about it is the graphics solution part — ION is DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3 capable, with a GPU based on the GeForce 9400M structure but apparently better performing than its mobile GPU forefather.

We have all the details inside, only here at MacPCWiz.