The world of technology and rumors about new products go together like peanut butter and jelly or Microsoft and antitrust investigations. A new rumor is making its rounds that has a new HP netbook coming called the Mini 311 that sports some very nice features.
NVIDIA are promising that the first Ion-based netbooks and notebooks will begin shipping this quarter. To celebrate that fact, the company has been gathering up its developer friends to talk about the strengths of the 1080p-capable platform.
NVIDIA Ion video after the cut
Netbooks using NVIDIA’s Ion platform – that couples an Intel Atom CPU with a NVIDIA GPU – have a target price of just $399, and will give customers the “full PC experience” rather than the “inferior” performance of current devices. That’s the opinion of NVIDIA’s plain-talking cofounder, president, and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, who has been talking with LaptopMag about the proliferation of mobile devices and ultra-low voltage chipsets. According to Huang, today’s netbook is “a low-cost PC that doesn’t work that well” and that is in fact hurting the PC software industry due to its poor support for common applications.
After the cut, Huang on Ion, AMD, MIDs and more
While Apple’s Macworld keynote last week made no mention of the predicted Mac mini update, that hasn’t stopped the rumors regarding the company’s intent for the compact desktop computer. According to Tom’s Hardware, a NVIDIA partner has confirmed that Apple intend to use NVIDIA’s Ion platform for their new Mac mini, and in fact were the first to receive prototype units. The sources went on to suggest a March launch, coinciding with CeBIT.
NVIDIA have unveiled plans to add extra graphics capabilities to Intel Atom powered netbooks, using a new, full-HD capable chipset. The so-called Ion platform comprises the company’s new GeForce 9400M graphics chipset with Intel’s Atom processor, replacing the typical Intel GMA 945 chipset and improving graphics and video transcoding by a factor of ten.
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