[mythtv-users] NVidia ION - Atom plus 9400M graphics on a box smaller than a toaster

[Nick Morrott]

On 13/01/2009, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> NVidia took the wraps off their ION platform today at CES. It appears
>  to be what we've been waiting for - onboard VDPAU-capable graphics,
>  along with gig Ethernet, DVI video, and 7.1 sound. Here are Nvidia's
>  specs:
>
>  CPU
>  Atom 330, 1.6GHz, FSB 533MHz
>
>  Memory
>  Single Channel DDR3-1066, 2GB
>
>  GPU
>  GeForce 9400M, 16 graphics cores, full HD decode

A bad case on insomnia let me to Slashdot, which in turn led me to a
detailed review of the reference Ion platform on The Tech Report:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/16340

It does look very promising, even if there are still a few kinks to work out.

Nick

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