Acer Aspire Revo was the first Ion-based nettop and just recently the first review appeared. Now that Acer has dared to take the step, more have gained the courage to follow. NVIDIA held a press brief earlier this week where they talked about its Ion platform and showed some coming systems. Aspire Revo was of course on display, but also two new computers from Pegatron and ASRock.
Pegatron presented its OEM nettop called Cape 7. Pegatron is talking to several interested manufacturers for selling Cape 7 under their own brands, not surprisingly Asustek being one of them.
No specifics were revealed surrounding Cape 7, more than it is NVIDIA’s Ion platform paired with Intel’s Atom processor.
Pegatron was also involved in the third system on display, ASRock’s ION 330 nettop. This model was designed by ASRock but is made by Pegatron. ION 330 sports the same trendy design as ASRock’s previous nettops, but this time it’s NVIDIA’s Ion platform found under the hood.
Unlike Acer, ASRock has chosen to use the dual-core Atom (Atom 330), which the way to go considering the benchmarks we’ve seen, where the Atom processor tends to bottleneck the system.
HotHardware shows the performance scaling with Ion and Intel’s dual-core Atom 330 processor
NVIDIA claims that around 40 different Ion-based systems will appear during the year, making this just the tip of the iceberg.
