Remember the Ion powered netbook from Samsung we recently reported on? At the time we only had a few specs and no pictures or price. But thanks to UberGizmo, they’ve captured live photos of the upcoming N510 netbook from Samsung as well as some more information. As previously reported, the netbook will feature a 160GB HDD, 1GB of RAM, a 11.1 inch display instead of a 11.6 inch screen. On the left hand side a VGA and HDMI port are seen. The netbook is expected to retail for $600 when it launches in the US.

For now the release of an ION powered 11.6 inch netbook from Samsung is still just a rumor however, Netbook Italia have posted up more details on the netbook which gives us more ground to expect a definite release from Samsung in July of this year and at a price tag of around 600 Euros.

The Samsung N510 (NP-N510-KA02UK) will come installed with it’s 11.6 inch display, Intel Atom N280 CPU, Nvidia ION 9400M graphics, 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive, webcam, bluetooth, card reader and WiFi. It will run on Windows XP as it’s operating system too.

There are no images of the N510 available yet but, as soon as more info is available we will be excitedly posting it here on eeepc.net.

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The first mini notebook to feature the NVidia ION graphics processor, the Dospara Prime Note Cresion NA, has been released for sale in Japan.

Specifications of the unit include the graphics power of the NVidia Ion along with an Atom 330 CPU, a 12.1 inch glossy display (so bordering on netbook/mini-notebook), 2GB of RAM, a DVD drive, 320GB HDD, webcam and Bluetooth. All in all its a powerful little unit which is running Windows XP as it’s operating system.

The product page can be found here: Dospara Prime Note Cresion NA for the newly released product which retails on the website at 59,980 Yen.

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According to unnamed industry sources cited by DigiTimes in one of its latest reports, Asus is reportedly considering launching new netbooks and nettops with NVIDIA’s Ion platform for enhanced graphics performance on these low-cost machines. Knowing that there are already several products with the NVIDIA Ion chip either out in the market or currently on the way, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Asus plans such a move to stay competitive. DigiTimes even goes as far as to mention the possible name of the first upcoming Ion-based Asus nettop: the Eee Box B1006. Now, if only this computer doesn’t get crippled with a small-time Atom processor, Asus just might have a winner in their hands. We’ll see if they ever announce this for a possible release in Q3 2009.

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Announced just a little over a month ago, the Acer AspireRevo is going to be one of the hottest nettops around for quite a while, what with it being the world’s first one rocking NVIDIA Ion graphics on board and all. This small nettop is going to be Acer’s bet against the likes of the Asus EeeBOX, offering advanced graphics and multimedia features that make it a great home theater PC. I kept this in mind while testing the Acer AspireRevo earlier at an Acer event, trying to see if it really delivered on what Acer is promising on paper. Well, what I’ve gathered is very positive so far, that I think I can safely say even Asus won’t be able to offer any competition.
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Digitimes have posted reporting that Lenovo are to produce two other models of netbook, in the second quarter of 2009, to add to the 12 inch netbook that was announced earlier this week.

Lenovo are to introduce an 11.6 inch and another 12 inch netbook and this second newly announced 12 inch netbook will use the Intel Atom processor and Nvidia’s Ion combination which produces a graphically capable netbook that is energy efficient at the same time. The company are also considering producing a 13″ model that would also run on the Ion platform.

Nvidia’s general manager of MCP business Drew Henry recently revealed that the very first ION-based product will be a nettop instead of a netbook, and that it will launch in June for $299 USD. Who was going to launch it first (whether it was MSI, Acer, or Asus) wasn’t specified, however, and we are only left to speculation. Nvidia also announced that their new product has passed Microsoft Windows Vista WHQL certification and can support high-definition multimedia and graphics processing. This means that netbooks/nettops should be able to show HD video content easily once the platform launches. That still doesn’t fix the problem of low resolution netbook screens, though. In any case, if you were waiting for more info on ION, there’s all that you can gleam at the moment.

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