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    News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    Better to go for Broadcom chip for HD, it says.
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    Re: News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    Yea its much better to be forced to use a crappy peice of software to run your HD content rather than being free to choose and run games

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    Re: News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    People are realizing that they don't need to spend £500 to do most of what they actually want a laptop for.
    Intel know that Netbooks are being re-positioned from a basic spec machine to an average spec machine and it's hurting their profit margin. They have to differentiate between a £200 netbook and a £500 laptop and it's mostly about the graphics chipset, which ION is eroding.

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    Re: News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    I think Intel are just being petty because they haven't developed something like the Ion themselves.

    I think they would have developed it if they could have, and if they did they obviously would be saying the complete opposite and hailing it the future of the netbook.

    People aren't forced to buy an Ion anyway - if they want it they get it, if they want a more basic model - they don't!

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    Re: News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    What an argument.... There graphics are too good you don't want them Admittedly power consumption is an issue, but so is userbility...

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    Re: News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    Translation from Intel-marketing speak to human: "We don't have anything that can remotely compete in graphics, so we have decided that you don't need it."

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    Re: News - Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks. Terms them overkill

    Our customers have the option to design netbooks how they want to but ultimately the market is going to decide

    Well given that it seems to have been Intel themselves who blocked manufactures for making ION & atom based netbooks in the first place by refusing to supply them with atom cpu's if they planned to release one.

    Next on top of that there's the ongoing issue that Intel refuse to allow the license for anyone to make competing chipsets for the new core i cpu's (well charging ridiculous amounts for the license so any competitors just couldn't compete in terms of price)

    I really do think Intel has now stolen nvidia's crown for underhanded practises and doing everthing possible to knee cap the opersition.

    If someone brought out a tablet netbook with the ION chipset I'd buy it right off.

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