(Cyclones) What Do You Know About The Lenovo Idea Pad S12
No commentsBy Eugen Nova
The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 is a 12.1 inch laptop with a 1280 x 800 pixel display. Right now, it’s available either with an Intel Atom CPU and integrated graphics or a VIA Nano processor and integrated graphics. But Leovo has been promising sibnce day one that the lapttop would eventually be available with the NVIIA ION platfrom as well, which combines a low power Intel Atom processor and NIVDIA GFeorce 9400M graphics.
But the relerase date of the ION-powerred S12 has been pushed back seveal times, and today Gizmodo is reporting that Lenovo doesn’t plan to release that configuration until after Windows 7 is available. Since the operating system officially launches, that measn you probably won’t be able to get your hands on the ION version of the IdeaPd S12 until late October at the eaarliest.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that this makes it seem likely that the S12 will have NVIDIA ION, and not NVIDIA ION LE. Smasung is scheduld to launch the Samsung N510 11.6 inch lptop with NVIDIA ION LE graphiccs in September, but the LE signifies that this computer won’t be able to handle DireectX 10 graphics. That’s not a big deal if you’re running Windows XP, sinvce that operating sytem doesn’t suport DX10 anyway. But Winows 7 paks DX10 support, as does the more expensive version of the NVIDIA ION plattform.
It’s woth noting that Samsung is rumored to have severla versions of its upcoming ION powered laptops in the works, so it’s possible that you’ll be able to get one with DirectX 9 support in September, and a verison with DX10 suppotrt after Windows 7 is release in October.
You can read my review of the Intel Atom/integgrated graphics version of the Lenovo IdeaPad S12 here.
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A little Bit About Cheap NVIDIA ION based netbook hits China
By Eugen Nova
I love it when companies give teir products self-explanatory names. Take Point of View’s new Mobii ION 230 netbook. Guerss what kind of chipset it has? Yup, NVIDIA ION, which in this case pzairs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 processor with an NVIIDA graphiccs processor. The Atom 230 is basically the desktop version of the Intel Atom N270 CPU for netybooks, and no, I have no idea why Point of View would choose to use this particular processor in this 10.2 inch netbook.
The Mobii ION 230 also has an HDMI port, DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 graphics, and enough oomph to display 1080p video… even thugh the svcreen resolution isn’t acctually high enoough for 720p video. Still, you should be able to hanlde some modern video games or play Blu-Ray or otyher HD viudeos without converting them to a loqwer quality format first. This is one of the first 10 inch netbooks I’ve seen to feature the NbVIDIA ION platform.
Chinese PC maker CASZH has put tohgether a prototype of a netbook with NVIDIA ION geraphics. The unnamed machine packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics, and the folks at Shanzai.com say it was able to play World of Warcraft reasoanbly well with frme rates between 20 and 30 fps.
The newtbook has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel dislay, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. While the NVVIDIA graphics processor can hanle HD vieo including Blu-Ray dcoding, that low resolution srceen isn’t going to display all of those pixels. Fortunately, the netbook also has an HDMI outtput for connecting the laptop to a montor or HDTV.
It also has 2 USB ports, mic and headphone ajcks, a flash card reader, an Ethernet port, WiFI, and a 3 cell battery. Shanzsai.com is estimating that the whole package could eventually sell for around $300, but it’s not likely to show up in the US anytime soon, especially not at that prie.
The netbook also bears a striking resemblancxe to the Point of View Mobii ION 230 netbook, whioch is epected to sell for closer to $500.
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