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Zotac's Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts
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."
Getting ARM netbooks might prove to be the real MS-Killer that some are wishing for. Windows mobile cannot compete with Linux. If ARM netbooks sell for the under $200 price-point that we were told of, then expect people to happily purchase them and forget that they ever needed windows at all.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
1) Build Netbook that is a) cheap, b) long battery life, and c) ability to play WOW at minimal settings.
2) ???
3) PROFIT!
Seriously though. That is what I want. You build it and I will go buy it.
Likely it will need at least a 10" screen to display without eyes bleeding.
From what I have read the Atom 1.6 just doesn't have the guts to run WOW realistically even at minimal levels.
However WOW is not a game that requires a lot of power to begin with (other than disk space). If it can play WOW it can probably play all my outdated games as well.
a 10" screen, a long battery life, some basic office software, wireless, wow, and decent price.
Doesn't have to be windows based. Linux is fine. You just have to make sure it becomes popular, and a community will help maintain it and provide updates and support. Make a cheap WOW playing netbook, and it WILL be popular.
Anyway that's my 2 cents.
How big are YOUR hands then?
Mine are only large enough to hold one, perhaps two boards at a time