Lenovo and Samsung both announced that they will be delaying the release of their next generation ION-equipped netbook until Windows 7 is released. This was made known due to the idea that this ION-powered netbook will run better on Windows 7 rather than Vista or Home XP. Windows 7 is the next flagship operating system by Microsoft that will be released...

May 25, 2009

Lenovo today announced the release of its improved version of Ideapad S series of netbooks, the Ideapad S12. The Ideapad S12 is the first netbook that offers Ion platform from Nvidia. The 9400m graphics chipset promises better support for 1080p video decoding with h.264 playback acceleration, Blu-ray playback, and moderate gaming capabilities. The new netbook...

Mar 30, 2009

It’s a fact for netbook enthusiasts that 2009 is the year when the inexpensive and lightweight sub notebook are being packed with more features previously only available on their bigger brothers. Last year we had MSI Wind, Acer Aspire One and Asus Eee to choose from. They were all equipped with the same basic features such as Atom N270 CPU, 1GB DDR2...

Dec 25, 2008

In what seems to be a breakthrough for netbook fans after NVIDIA announced their Ion platform which promises to greatly improve its performance whilst consuming a little bit more in battery energy, then comes Intel refusing to acknowledge it’s ever gonna happen. How? Basically, Ion will use Intel’s Atom microprocessor but eschewing 945GSE and 945GC,...