[LinuxUsers] Any advice on Nvidia ION chip?

[Charles Wyble]

Specifically the Acer Aspire 1 1600

http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&kcond61e.c2att101=68974&sp=page16e&ctx2.c2att1=25&link=ln438e&CountryISOCtxParam=US&ctx1g.c2att92=450&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=750687650

it's cool stuff. 


On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Charles Wyble wrote:

> I have an acer sitting on my desk right now. It will soon be getting debian deployed, and tested. 
> 
> Reports online indicate incredible CPU savings when rendering flash. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:54 PM, David Kaiser wrote:
> 
>> In looking at a better (faster) netbook option, I'm interested in
>> something with an Atom N280 processor, and I've read some of these
>> reviews about the Nvidia ION processor, such as this one: 
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_ion_linux&num=1
>> 
>> It seems like there is an extension (VDPAU) which is yet another
>> proprietary Nvidia hook, but when you have all the drivers and
>> everything supported properly, you get really fast performance with low
>> energy needs (longer battery life when you use less CPU, etc.)
>> 
>> Does anyone on the list have a recent enough netbook or Atom cpu'd
>> device with the ION GPU?  Any input on this? 
>> 
>> DK
>> 
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