Nvidia's Ion Makes a Splash at Computex 2009
Computex 2009 is upon us and even before day one there have been a few companies making announcements, wanting to stand out.
New processors from Intel and AMD aside, Nvidia is probably feeling like the prettiest girl at the party right now and it’s easy to see why with Ion products from countless vendors across the show floor.
In with the Acer Aspire Revo and the just-announced Lenovo IdeaPad S12, Nvidia highlighted a few other Ion-based machines that we haven’t heard about. Among them was MSI's new Wind Box D200 as well as a ream of other nettops and netbooks from Asian ODMs, like ECS’s Morph nettop. All in all the company has listed 20 manufacturers as “Ion Partners” and asked everyone to check out all the products on the show floor.
Rumors today also point to Ion-based computers from both HP and Dell in Q3 of this year. According to Digitimes, two American companies could be all set to add to the plethora of offerings already announced.
Nvidia’s full list of Ion partners is below.
| Manufacturer | PC Type | Model |
|---|---|---|
| Acer | Desktop | AspireRevo |
| AsRock | Desktop | Ion 330 |
| Asus | Motherboard | C2N7A-I |
| Asus | All-in-One | eeeTop ET2002 |
| Colorful | Desktop | iHTPC |
| ECS | Desktop | 7AT-3L |
| ECS | All-in-One | Morph-I |
| Flextronics | All-in-One | Cobra-2 |
| Flextronics | Desktop | Dove-2 |
| Funtwist | Desktop | FION 330 |
| ICD | All-in-One | Kitchen PC |
| Lenovo | Notebook | IdeaPad S12 |
| MSI | Desktop | Windbox D200 |
| MSI | All-in-One | Windtop AE2201 |
| Pegatron | Desktop | IPP7A-CP |
| Pegatron | All-in-One | IPP7A-DF2 |
| Pegatron | Motherboard | IPX7A-ION |
| TCL | All-in-One | Ruiyi 1010 |
| Telcast | Notebook | TL-1000N |
| Weibu | Notebook | N10A |
| Zotac | Motherboard | ION-ITX |
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It would be great if these guys would make a machine that would output optical sound with 1080p. And then say it will only work if you used DRM free content as the unnecessary computational and subsequent energy overhead is bad for the environment. DRM is energy intensive and not eco friendly. - (just an idea) little thing looks great to have round the back of the TV.