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December 30th, 2009, 20:40
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It's been more than a year since NVIDIA announced (http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/nvidia-schemes-to-get-in-on-the-atom-platform/) its Ion platform, promising to bring HD video and gaming to the underpowered Atom CPU. After all the hold ups (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/lenovos-ideapad-s12-with-nvidia-ion-on-hold-pending-windows-7-d/), we started to wonder if we'd ever see the platform packed inside a netbook, so imagine our surprise when no less than four Ion-based machines launched in the past few months. With bigger screens, better specs, more graphics muscle and, of course, the resulting higher price tag, each of these Ion machines promises quite a bit, but which one lives up to the hype? We got them all together and spent the past few weeks testing the ASUS Eee PC 1201N, Lenovo IdeaPad S12, HP Mini 311 and the Samsung N510 -- follow on past the break for our complete faceoff.
Gallery: Ion Netbooks Compared (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/)
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Continue reading Ion netbooks head-to-head: Atom, overcharged? (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/ion-netbooks-head-to-head-atom-overcharged/)
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It's been more than a year since NVIDIA announced (http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/nvidia-schemes-to-get-in-on-the-atom-platform/) its Ion platform, promising to bring HD video and gaming to the underpowered Atom CPU. After all the hold ups (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/lenovos-ideapad-s12-with-nvidia-ion-on-hold-pending-windows-7-d/), we started to wonder if we'd ever see the platform packed inside a netbook, so imagine our surprise when no less than four Ion-based machines launched in the past few months. With bigger screens, better specs, more graphics muscle and, of course, the resulting higher price tag, each of these Ion machines promises quite a bit, but which one lives up to the hype? We got them all together and spent the past few weeks testing the ASUS Eee PC 1201N, Lenovo IdeaPad S12, HP Mini 311 and the Samsung N510 -- follow on past the break for our complete faceoff.
Gallery: Ion Netbooks Compared (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/designcomparisonion02_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/2565324/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/designcomparisonion03_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/2565325/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/designcomparisonion04_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/2565326/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/designcomparisonion05_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/2565327/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/designcomparisonion06_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/ion-netbooks-compared/2565328/)
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