The folks at Laptop Mag recently got their hands on the HP Mini 311, which features the nVidia Ion LE chipset, and put it through some benchmarks of varying usefulness. It achieved a score of 1,917 on PCMark05 and 1,386 on 3DMark06 – both these figures unsurprisingly higher than the average scores of GPU-less netbooks.
The Multibook G22 has the looks of a netbook, and offers features that most netbooks don’t. It seems to be a true mingling of useful laptop features in a netbook size.
Lenovo looks set to bring the first ION-based netbook to market with the unveiling of the IdeaPad S12. The ION platform puts a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU and a GeForce 9400M GPU together to create a machine capable of GPU-accelerated Blu-ray/1080p video playback, and playing modern 3D games such as Call of Duty 4.
Sources at Nvidia have told Pocket-lint to expect several key players to announce netbooks powered by Nvidia’s Ion platform at Computex Taipei in June, with ship dates as early as July.
