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Acer Hornet NVIDIA Ion nettop leaks
Acer Hornet NVIDIA Ion nettop leaks
Leaked Acer slides suggest the company is planning a high-end nettop device that would use NVIDIA’s Ion graphics chipset. The Acer Hornet is a small form-factor computer that would use either a dual or single-core Intel Atom processor, together with the 1080p-capable Ion, and be optionally VESA ...
 Another Acer Aspire One
Another Acer Aspire One
macles.blogspot.com — Is Acer going the way of ASUS by releasing countless iterations of their netbook? Probably not, but... there will be at least one additional model as shown in the pictures below. You'll notice it is thinner than current models, which indicates a SSD ... (more) Another Acer Aspire One
Acer Hornet; Nvidia Ion based netbook computer (Turkish)
Acer Hornet; Nvidia Ion based netbook computer (Turkish)
donanimhaber.com — Nvidia'nın Ion platformuyla ilgili çalışmalar devam ediyor. Geçtiğimiz günlerde Microsoft'dan onay alan firmanın netbook ve nettop sistemlerde... kullanılması hedeflenen yeni platformunu ikinci çeyrekte duyurması beklenirken, üreticiler de Ion tabanlı ... (more) Acer Hornet; Nvidia Ion based netbook computer (Turkish)
CeBIT 2009 Day 1: Acer, Cooler Master & Western Digital
insidehw.com — Our team went on CeBIT 2009 as many years before. As you already know CeBIT is beside... CES and Computex, one of three biggest IT fairs on the world. Without any further delays here are the details of the first day of our visit. We present you Acer, ... (more) CeBIT 2009 Day 1: Acer, Cooler Master & Western Digital
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Acer's Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in presentation slides?
Engadget — ... -- in case you didn't pick up on the Wii influence, one of those background photos is a direct rip from NIntendo's ad campaign -- and can apparently hang from the back of LCD TVs. The images also tout its eco-friendly design, small form factor, "silent operation," and a price tag of only a couple hundred dollars. Elaborate Photoshop or impending PC? Something feels fishy here, so while we sit and impatiently wait for some official word, hit up the read link for more pics. [Via Slash Gear] Filed under: Desktops Acer's Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in ...

Is This The First Ion-Based Acer Nettop?
Maximum PC — ... released. The slides tell us very little about the machine, but what we will know is that it’ll be based off of Intel’s Ion, have HDMI output, will have a wireless controller/mouse, and will supposedly be able to hang from the back of a LCD TV. As for substantial information goes, there wasn’t anything to be found. Now, none of this has been confirmed by any sources, but there are plenty of convincing slides. So, if you want to take a gander at them and be the judge, check them out here .

Acer to introduce Ion-based "Hornet" nettop next week?
TechSpot — The netbook market may be completely saturated, but there's still room left in the nettop arena. Squeezing in just below entry-level systems, nettops offer desktop options that would be light on power consumption and easy on the wallet. Originally rumored earlier this year, it was speculated that Acer was getting ready to release a “high-end” nettop device called the Hornet , based on Nvidia's Ion platform. Being sourced from a leak, much of the information was unconfirmed if not outright missing. While Acer still has not offered any officially statements regarding their plans ...

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Nvidia drops Intel Atom from Ion 2
bit-tech.net 2/20/2009 — Nvidia's president, Jen-Hsun Huang, says that the Ion 2 will use VIA's Nano processor, rather than Intel's Atom.
NVIDIA Ion platform to support VIA Nano processors this year
engadget.com 2/21/2009 — It's pretty clear NVIDIA already has some big plans for its new nettop / netbook-specific Ion platform , and it looks like its reach is about to get broader still, with company president Jen-Hsun Huang reportedly confirming that the platform will ...
Intel tears apart Nvidia Ion in document
bit-tech.net 2/24/2009 — Intel lambasts Nvidia's Ion, saying that it's based on old technology and that gaming and video transcoding features are irrelevant to netbooks and nettops.
Nvidia responds to Intel’s anti-Ion propaganda
bit-tech.net 2/25/2009 — Nvidia retaliates to Intel's claims about Ion with a presentation of its own, claiming that Ion offers 10x the performance using 55 percent less space than Intel's own Atom chipset
Nvidia responds to anti-Ion presentation
fudzilla.com 2/25/2009 — vs Ion has 10 times better graphics
NVIDIA responds to Intel's Ion dismissal, all eyes on recess for confrontation
engadget.com 2/26/2009 — It wasn't too hard to see this one coming, but NVIDIA has now shot back at Intel and responded point by point to each accusation Intel made recently about its Ion platform . For starters, while NVIDIA doesn't exactly dispute that Ion is just a ...
Acer unveils NVIDIA Ion based Wii cloneDV Hardware
Last year ASUS showed off a concept of Wii-like motion-sensing controls for the Eee PC, and it looks like one of the first NVIDIA Ion based systems from Acer may also mimic Nintendo's popular console. Donanim Haber published some slides of the Acer Hornet, a Ion-based system designed for use in ...
Ion-Based Acer Hornet Nettop SurfacestechPowerUp!
Amidst a virtual faceoff between Intel and NVIDIA over what the ideology behind a ULPC should be, NVIDIA's Ion platform gains another taker, the Acer Hornet. NVIDIA's Ion platform consists of a ULV/ULPC processor made by Intel (soon VIA), paired with NVIDIA's MCP79-derived core-logic that ...
Nvidia Pens 13-Page Response to Intel's Ion ClaimsMaximum PC
Once Intel turned its spat personal with Nvidia by slamming the GPU maker's Ion platform, which came after Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang charged Intel with attempting to "stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business," which came after Intel sued Nvidia over a Nehalem license, ...
Acer Hornet to usher in NVIDIA ION-based nettops?HEXUS.net : News
Leaked slides suggest HD-ready nettop is just around the corner.
NVIDIA Ion to begrudgingly support Core 2 Duo by Q4?Engadget
It's easy to overlook amidst all PowerPoint-fueled fisticuffs but, in addition to slinging rebuttals at Intel and muttering insults under its breath, NVIDIA also appears to have dropped a bit of news about its next-generation Ion platform. While we had already heard that Ion 2 would be ...
NVIDIA Ion 2 ships in Q4 2009DV Hardware
NVIDIA's response to Intel's anti-Ion campaign unveils the Ion 2 platform with VIA Nano processors will arrive in Q4 2009: NVIDIA Ion 2 ships in Q4 2009 - More news at DV Hardware
NVIDIA responds to Intel's anti-Ion propagandaDV Hardware
NVIDIA has created a response to the anti-Ion presentation from Intel that was send to several websites yesterday. Today NVIDIA gave a response: "We (Nvidia) are currently communicating with our customers to correct the claims Intel made against NVIDIA ION. We believe that our partners are ...
Intel Makes it Personal with Ion-Slamming DocumentMaximum PC
Forget about a woman scorned - Hell hath no fury like Intel and Nvidia going at each other, both in and out of the courtroom. After being sued by Intel last week over a Nehalem chipset license, Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang responded by saying the suit was "clearly an attempt to ...
Intel tears apart Nvidia Ion in documentMadshrimps News RSS Feed
Now that the competitive scrap between Nvidia and Intel is officially out in the open, Intel has decided to unashamedly dish the dirt on Nvidia's Ion platform. bit-tech has seen a document that Intel is sending out called "Nvidia Ion Competitive Positioning Guide," which details what ...
Report: Intel starts PR offensive against Nvidia's IonThe Tech Report: News
After suing Nvidia because of a disagreement over chipset licensing, Intel may have launched a negative PR campaign against Nvidia's Ion platform. The folks at Bit-Tech claim to have laid their eyes on an Intel document entitled, "Nvidia Ion Competitive Positioning Guide," which is reportedly ...
Intel pulls out PR guns to smash NVIDIA Ion platformDV Hardware
Bit Tech reports Intel is trying to convince its partners that NVIDIA's Ion platform offers no advantages over Intel's Atom platform. The chip giant is sending out a propaganda document named "NVIDIA Ion Competitive Positioning Guide" to diss the Ion netbook/nettop platform from NVIDIA.  ...
Intel rips into NVIDIA's Ion platformEngadget
Intel and NVIDIA aren't exactly hiding their differences with each other these days, and it doesn't look like that's about to change anytime soon, especially when it comes to NVIDIA's turf-encroaching Ion platform . According to a document apparently now making the rounds in some circles, ...
Nvidia Readying Ion Platform for Via CPUsMaximum PC
Nvidia showcased its bantam Ion platform during CES 2009. The Ion platform basically combines Intel’s Atom CPU with the GeForce 9400M GPU. Ion-toting netbooks are expected to be head and shoulders above today’s netbooks - that make a meal of even the simplest graphical tasks - in terms of ...
NVIDIA working on Ion platform based on VIA CPUsMadshrimps News RSS Feed
NVIDIA has confirmed that it is working on a VIA-based Ion platform, something that was hinted back in March 2008 already. Back then NVIDIA was speaking of a new platform for VIA's Nano processor and the demonstrations that happened last year had systems sporting the GeForce 9400M chipset. In ...
Nvidia Still Interested in Via Technologies’ ProcessorsAPH Networks
From X-bit Labs: Despite of claims regarding great interest in Intel Atom-based platforms, Nvidia Corp. is still interested to power netbooks based on central processing units designed by Via Technologies. Apparently, the company intends to unveil Via Nano-supporting core-logic and Ion ...
NVIDIA ION 2 supports VIA Nano CPUI4U News
NVIDIA apparently has more plans with the ION platform than just supporting Intel Atom CPUs. Digitimes reports that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed that NVIDIA will release ION 2 supporting the VIA Nano CPU later in 2009. The announcements around th...
NVIDIA Ion Platform To Get VIA Nano SupportOverclockers Club news Feed
NVIDIA's Ion platform has demonstrated that it is possible to get some pretty decent performance figures when paired up with an Intel Atom processor. NVIDIA have now confirmed that the Ion platform will also support VIA's Nano processor by the end of this year. The two companies have been ...
NVIDIA Ion 2 platform will support VIA NanoDV Hardware
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told DigiTimes that his company is working on a next-generation Ion platform that will support the VIA Nano processor. Products based on the first Ion platform should arrive within a couple of months, and the Ion 2 platform is expected later this year. The two ...
Nvidia confirms "Ion" platform for Via CPUsTechSpot
Nvidia may be duking it out with Intel right now, but one company they are apparently on good terms with is Via. CEO Jen-Jsun Huang has recently revealed that Nvidia is working with Via to develop motherboards based around the Ion platform which can make use of Via's Nano processors. The deal, ...
Is This The First Ion-Based Acer Nettop?Maximum PC all RSS Feed
For some time Nvidia has been telling us that we’d be looking at an Ion based desktop sometime this Spring, but we hadn’t had any reason to believe this given that it has yet to show up in any consumer hardware. That is until recently, when some ...
Nvidia Pens 13-Page Response to Intel's Ion ClaimsMaximum PC all RSS Feed
Once Intel turned its spat personal with Nvidia by slamming the GPU maker's Ion platform, which came after Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang charged Intel with attempting to "stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business," which came ...
Nvidia Fires Back at Intel's Anti-Ion SentimentsTom's hardware UK
Earlier this week, Intel sent out a document that hoped to dissuade system builders from pairing Nvidia’s Ion platform with the Atom processor. Today, Nvidia fired back with arguments of why Ion is the best solution for the Atom.
Intel Makes it Personal with Ion-Slamming DocumentMaximum PC all RSS Feed
Forget about a woman scorned - Hell hath no fury like Intel and Nvidia going at each other, both in and out of the courtroom. After being sued by Intel last week over a Nehalem chipset license, Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang responded by ...
Intel Releases Anti-Nvidia Ion DocumentsTom's hardware UK
Those who have been keeping a close eye on the Ion (geddit, eye-on the… oh nevermind), will know that there’s been a small feud brewing between Nvidia and Intel.
Nvidia Readying Ion Platform for Via CPUsMaximum PC all RSS Feed
Nvidia showcased its bantam Ion platform during CES 2009. The Ion platform basically combines Intel’s Atom CPU with the GeForce 9400M GPU. Ion-toting netbooks are expected to be head and shoulders above today’s netbooks - that make a meal of even the ...