@whereisian: If i remember correctly, the Ion Platform is Intel's. As the whole concept behind it was so that it would only work with the Atom CPU, As such essentially, the GPU is just Nvidia's 9400M Beefed up a little bit. But the Whole Package 9400M + Atom = Ion.
How many people actually connect their netbooks to a 1080p screen and use it to watch HD video?
Almost NO netbook has that capability (ie: no HDMI output) and no BlueRay drive. Sure you COULD run a file from the hard drive - and connect it to a large monitor over VGA... but WHY?
The whole point of a netbook is compact and portible. Even with 1366x768 - you do have 16:9 but not 1080p. So get a video file that's scaled for that output and voila - problem solved.
@TheWerewolf - Causing headlines!: Who says this has to be in a netbook? A nettop built around this tech would make for a dandy Boxee box that'd fit in the palm of your hand.
@oboreruhito: Nobody addressed his question because his question was stupid. "OMG who has use for this in a netbook! That must mean it's useless all around!"
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@Bizdady: BILLY MAYES HERE WITH PROCESSOR PUTTY. ITS SO STRONG, IT CAN HOLD NOT TWO ATHLON64x2s , BUT 4 ATHLON64 CPUs TOGETHER FOR FASTER PROCESSING POWER ACT NOW AND I'LL THROW IN NOT ONE, NOT TWO, NOT EVEN FOUR STICKS OF DDR3 RAM, I'LL THROW IN 8 STICKS OF DDR3 RAM! THAT VINCE GUY PEDDLING INTELS HAS NOTHING ON THIS! ACT NOW!
@Stndsh0: Like myself, you are a unapproved commenter. Don't worry, people will see the comments that are deemed worthy of approval by those with stars.
If they don't approve it, thank them, it's probably better no one saw it anyway...
@dingus: I believe this is Cell Processing technology. I guess it's the next big thing for CPU's. Similar to how dual-core or multi-core processors work, but Cell has the choice to either as a unified unit or by itself individually. The thing it has over our standard mult-core CPU's is that Cell can communicate and work together via broadband network. So computer A can work as a unified unit with computer B in terms of processing power (sort to speak). Hope that makes sense.
@LouisJebber: I understand what they did, but their claims aren't anywhere near what they've done. They're claiming to "challenge everything taught in computer science books" and find another architecture besides Harvard or Von Neumann, yet they're hooking together a bunch of slow off the shelf ARM micros with a slow network and having devices bootload each other. So I'll ask again: what's special here?
I actually think that it's plausible to have a "public option" for computer processing in the future. What I mean is that we could have a central, modular super computer maintained with taxpayer funds. People could then pay an access fee to use this processing power. This way, we would not need to buy powerful computers ourselves - we would only need cheap personal computers that are optimized to interact with the central cloud computer.
This would be analogous to public transportation, and it would be much more resource-efficient than having everyone buy computer power that is unused most of the time. Obviously there would be security, privacy and bandwidth concerns, but these don't seem to be insurmountable.
I think this is a great idea. Along with a operating system that can turn off many features not needed at the time, you can get a computer to run very little power when all you are doing is chatting on AIM.
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Word has it, they also have a version built around the Via Nano in the works, since Intel's been such huge cocks to them lately.
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How many people actually connect their netbooks to a 1080p screen and use it to watch HD video?
Almost NO netbook has that capability (ie: no HDMI output) and no BlueRay drive. Sure you COULD run a file from the hard drive - and connect it to a large monitor over VGA... but WHY?
The whole point of a netbook is compact and portible. Even with 1366x768 - you do have 16:9 but not 1080p. So get a video file that's scaled for that output and voila - problem solved.
Seriously, this is a tempest in a teapot.
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@oboreruhito: Nobody addressed his question because his question was stupid. "OMG who has use for this in a netbook! That must mean it's useless all around!"
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If they don't approve it, thank them, it's probably better no one saw it anyway...
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This would be analogous to public transportation, and it would be much more resource-efficient than having everyone buy computer power that is unused most of the time. Obviously there would be security, privacy and bandwidth concerns, but these don't seem to be insurmountable.
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Suck it, U.S. Suck it with Sulphur in it.
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