aviaggio

November 19, 2009 at 7:36am

If they can do these starting in the $350 price range AND get 6+ hour battery life I'm all in.

charliemikefoxtrot

November 19, 2009 at 12:25am

It won’t be expensive there are already a few ION equipped netbooks out there that run it in parallel with Atoms, replacing Intels Crapy 945/950 series of integrated graphics.  They have better battery life and still come in the low $400s if you shop around (HP mini 311).  Most of the price bump is actually intells fault again, they only charge $25 to OEMs for an Atom if it’s being paired with Intel integrated graphics but $45 if it’s going on an ION equipped board, and of course since these are all soldered on the board components there is no way for you to swap out after the fact.  I will buy one of these and I have at least four or five friends that I have been counseling to hold off on buying netbooks until the ION becomes widely available, they are going to be really sorry if they don’t follow that advice when they see this thing run.

-CMF

MuppetMower

November 18, 2009 at 11:29pm

I'm glad to see peopel adopting the ion platform despite Intels asshole moves. I used a netbook with ion at PAX(I cant remember what brand it was), and man it was nice and snappy. They had one playing HD video on a huge screen, and another that you could just mess around with at the nvidia booth.

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triclops41

November 18, 2009 at 10:03pm

i dont think it will be that much more expensive, but i am concerned about battery life.  the trend on netbooks for battery life has been very positive in the last couple of years, would hate to see that go away.

austin43

November 18, 2009 at 6:31pm

This thing is going to be insanely expensive.