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Zotac's Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts

Posted by timothy on from the underseat-entertainment-box-for-the-subaru dept.

MojoKid writes "There have been a handful of NVIDIA Ion-based products with Intel's Atom processor that have been unveiled recently, ranging from NVIDIA's own reference system, to the Acer Aspire Revo SFF PC. Today Zotac announced an Ion motherboard that will be appealing to the DIY crowd. The design of this IONITX-A model board tested and reviewed here in particular, offers some very interesting features, not the least of which is its DC power input with an external power brick. It also is built on Intel's dual core Atom process for a bit more horsepower to back up NVIDIA's Ion integrated graphics chip."

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  1. Re:Yeah, still awaiting ARM by onkelonkel · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not really disagreeing with you, but there does seem to be two mutually exclusive ideas of "what is a netbook?" out there.

    One is what you describe, an iPod touch with a 7' - 9" screen, basically an oversized PDA. It might have an ARM cpu, run Linux or Android. Does any such device that actually exist?

    The other is a fully functional PC, just smaller. Intel Atom Cpu, winXP, 4+ hour battery. This is what is actually being sold as a netbook.

    I own an eeePc, I paid $350, it runs MS Office (feh, work), Autocad (if you squint a bit), and all my older games (Homm 3, Diablo 2, Starcraft...). The 9" iTouch wouldn't meet my needs, I wouldn't buy one. I'm wondering how low you would have to price one to compete with the eePC. I think it would have to be well below $200 to sell.

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  2. How about comparing it to a real system? by Vigile · · Score: 3, Informative

    This review compares the same motherboard to an AMD-based system that is micro-ATX not mini-ITX, but does have the same price: $189 or so.

    http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=708&type=expert&pid=4

    If power consumption doesn't matter to you, the AMD X2 7750 + 780G + 400w PSU is a much better performer.