News - Point of View rolls out NVIDIA ION-based Mobii netbook

[HEXUS]

Point of View has officially launched its Mobii ION 230 netbook.

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[staffsMike]

That looks very... bright.

We need the price though, thats key to these.

[Methanoid]

I think there is a less garish model.

"How much" and "when and where" is what I wanna know!

[scaryjim]

Anyone know why all ION systems, including netbooks, we've seen so far are using the 230, rather than the N270? AFAIK they use the same socket, and in a netbook the 2.5W N270, which supports speedstep to reduce power use when idle, makes a lot more sense than the 4W 230 which doesn't support speedstep.

As to why no dual-core ION netbooks? 8W TDP and no speedstep is going to murder battery life...!

Personally, I'll consider ION when they make a chipset with sufficiently low TDP to merit combination with a Z-series Atom... that'd be *very* interesting

[Feelin' Lucky]

Here's a thought..

The ION contains the 9400m G NB chipset. This is Nvidia's best MCP.

The great thing about this chipset....is that for retail notebooks...netbooks....the chipset overclocks EXTREMELY well with software such as nTune.

Knowing this, the 230 may allow for better system overclocking....who knows yet.

BUT, I am sure Nvidia did this for a reason.

** Macs caught on....all the macbooks have the 9400M G **

Oh...and all the people that scream.."NEVER OVERCLOCK A LAPTOP.." --- can't really listen to them. If you know what you are doing, and monitor temps..etc then you will be fine.

SPECS: ($899 @ Best Buy) Dell Studio XPS 13 Notebook (has the 9400M G) 2.4 GHz p8600.

I had mine stable at 3.0 GHz.....all in all...it's easy and a huge performance booster. Let's hope NVIDIA had this in mind when choosing the 230...

[Feelin' Lucky]

Also..the Atom 230 is x64 enabled.....one of only a small handful on low power chips...the n270 isn't. You'll probably be able to stick 4GB in it and take advantage of shared memory. Also, it lowers the cost of the ION...so people don't just get a regular notebook.

I'd like to see the Atom 330 with it!!! The only dual core....plus x64 and ht available

Here's a thought..

The ION contains the 9400m G NB chipset. This is Nvidia's best MCP.

The great thing about this chipset....is that for retail notebooks...netbooks....the chipset overclocks EXTREMELY well with software such as nTune.

Knowing this, the 230 may allow for better system overclocking....who knows yet.

BUT, I am sure Nvidia did this for a reason.

** Macs caught on....all the macbooks have the 9400M G **

Oh...and all the people that scream.."NEVER OVERCLOCK A LAPTOP.." --- can't really listen to them. If you know what you are doing, and monitor temps..etc then you will be fine.

SPECS: ($899 @ Best Buy) Dell Studio XPS 13 Notebook (has the 9400M G) 2.4 GHz p8600.

I had mine stable at 3.0 GHz.....all in all...it's easy and a huge performance booster. Let's hope NVIDIA had this in mind when choosing the 230...

[scaryjim]

Saying "use the 230 because you can overclock it" and "use the 230 because it's 64bit" is all a bit moot in the netbook market. 32bit OSes can see the best part of 4GB RAM anyway, and Windows 7 is available in 32bit, so I doubt that's the major concern: an overclocked Atom of any type is still a million miles behind a cheap dual core celeron: and the 230 has no performance advantage at stock speeds over a 270 despite pulling more power. So unless the 230 is *significantly* cheaper than the 270 (which I accept may be the case, given Intel's weird pricing tendencies), I really don't see any valid argument for not using a 270 in an ION netbook.

Any chance of asking someone in the know, Hexus?

[Feelin' Lucky]

Read the post!

The point is that we DON'T know why the 230 is being used.

NO ONE is saying "use the 230 because..." --

I gave some thoughts on what the 230 has to offer the ION.

Do you you have any thoughts (on original post), or do you like trying to discredit others?

Saying "use the 230 because you can overclock it" and "use the 230 because it's 64bit" is all a bit moot in the netbook market. 32bit OSes can see the best part of 4GB RAM anyway, and Windows 7 is available in 32bit, so I doubt that's the major concern: an overclocked Atom of any type is still a million miles behind a cheap dual core celeron: and the 230 has no performance advantage at stock speeds over a 270 despite pulling more power. So unless the 230 is *significantly* cheaper than the 270 (which I accept may be the case, given Intel's weird pricing tendencies), I really don't see any valid argument for not using a 270 in an ION netbook.

Any chance of asking someone in the know, Hexus?

[scaryjim]

Do you you have any thoughts (on original post), or do you like trying to discredit others?

Discredit? At what point did I try to discredit you, or anyone? I may have disagreed with you (oh no, what a hellish crime!</izzard>), but I am genuinely puzzled by this.

Clearly *someone, somewhere* is saying use the 230, as several ION netbooks have been released with the 230 now. You raised some interesting points, certainly, but none that I think provide a sufficient reason to use the 230 over the N270 - so my original question remains. I'm not expecting the Hexus forum members to be able to answer it (but if anyone manages it they will get massive Kudos in my eyes...!) - I'm just asking the question...