Hand-Held Computers, UMPCs, MIDs

Re: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

BassKozz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:28:25 GMT

MythTV .22, When will you be released so that we can take advantage of VDPAU (out of trunk)?

This will make a great front-end for MythTV to play HD h.264 1080p videos w/ VDPAU on.

Re: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

Dave_HH — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:09:36 GMT

jaynoon:

There was nothing in the story about when we might to see actual products based on Atom/Ion.. Any clues?

No unfortunately....

Re: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

jaynoon — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:06:40 GMT

There was nothing in the story about when we might to see actual products based on Atom/Ion.. Any clues?

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

Der Meister — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:39:33 GMT

^lol

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

bob_on_the_cob — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:14:13 GMT

Output to my TV. Failed experiment.

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

ice91785 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:26:08 GMT

bob_on_the_cob:
My netbook drops frames even at 720p.

The question is...why are you watching HD media on a 7" screen???!!??!

RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

Thunder Chunks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:50:20 GMT

I thought that the main stumbling block with Ion and netbook/ small form factor was Intel itself not wanting to work with the Ion platform and remain with its own chipset? Imagine a netbook factor/ windows 7 and Ion it would be all but perfect for the daily commute!

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

bob_on_the_cob — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:22:44 GMT

My netbook drops frames even at 720p. If that tells you about the Atoms HD ability. The 9400m would do the job I'm sure though. I really like this little guy a lot. I also saw a ITX board from CES with wifi, socket 775, and a PCIe slot. That thing looked nice.

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

tanka12345 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:26:26 GMT

Dave_HH:

tanka12345:

Like Pete too, I find it hard to believe. Although, is an Atom fast enough to decode HD video? I would of thought they would use a low power Core 2 Duo instead, as the two cores would help alot. I wonder how much these would cost.

It's the IGP in the GeForce 9400M doing the decode and it nearly offloads the host processor completely.

If that is so Dave, it looks like a very appealing platform. The only issue I have with it now is the fact that AMD is not associated with this great technology. A key question: Where does AMD fit into all of this? Think about it. AMD could suddenly pop up with a platform likely to be better because they won't have any issues about different parties making different components. AMD and ATI could work in harmony using possibly a mobile 4000 series GPU and one of their dual core processors. I hope they do try and do something, as Intel and Nvidia will benefit from that platform. (Although it could provide greater rewards to focus more on desktop processors and even faster GPUs) )

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

Dave_HH — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:21:49 GMT

tanka12345:

Like Pete too, I find it hard to believe. Although, is an Atom fast enough to decode HD video? I would of thought they would use a low power Core 2 Duo instead, as the two cores would help alot. I wonder how much these would cost.

It's the IGP in the GeForce 9400M doing the decode and it nearly offloads the host processor completely.

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

tanka12345 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:00:26 GMT

Like Pete too, I find it hard to believe. Although, is an Atom fast enough to decode HD video? I would of thought they would use a low power Core 2 Duo instead, as the two cores would help alot. I wonder how much these would cost.

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

peti1212 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:58:11 GMT

40Mbps 1080p video? It's hard to believe but if it is really that fast, then I am very impressed. I want one, lol. I could see some day in my life for my children (if I will have some) to have something like this for school. As technology gets better, I bet it will get incorporated into everyday school life.

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

nelsoncp21 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:42:06 GMT

sweet little peice of gear. I am sure you could hook it up to a NAS or something for more storage.

RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

3vi1 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:16:54 GMT

I want one in my car!

Re: RE: NVIDIA's Ion Small Form-Factor PC Platform

ice91785 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:17:07 GMT

Your only limiter would be that it looks like it only holds one 2.5" drive -- at the moment this means no more than 500GB of storage -- unless you put all kinds of ext hdds with the unit i guess but what'd be the point of having a sleek computer with dongles and drives all over hanging off of it?