First Nvidia Ion netbook now available: HP Mini 311

Bad design and late to market: The Ion chipset is essentially wasted on this. You have the Ion LE, which is a DirectX 9-only variant of the DX10-packin' Ion, on a netbook running Windows XP. There's no DX Compute shader option on Windows XP and there won't be in the foreseeable future.

They should've just waited until Windows 7 for this, and offered the real Ion chipset, or at least provided the real Ion, and given a free Windows 7 upgrade with it. It includes neither though, so it's just a waste.

Also, charging extra for the N280 CPU, Wireless-N and Bluetooth is a bit much. Asus Eee PC's have had all of that since the 1000HE and they usually sell for around $429US.; Posted by: Joe_Raby Posted on: 09/25/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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