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NVIDIA ION 2 platform is making its way to the market in recently announced ASUS and Zotac computers. Companies will adopt different GPUs but most likely same Intel Atom D510 dual-core processor. The concepts are also going to be different. ASUS puts NVIDIA ION 2 into an all-in-one known as Eee Top ET2010PNT, while Zotac engineers, as we have it, call their creation MAG HD-ND01 and it's a PC, but probably something more nettop-like. Graphics chips in Eee Top ET2010PNT and MAG HD-ND01, despite being different, are quite similar to each other, so after all graphics will not make a big difference in price. GeForce 210-powered Zotac will cost about 250 dollars. GeForce 310 and all the rest in ASUS' all-in-one should not add up more than 100 or so dollars to that. The only issue that we should address to here is that ION 2 doesn't stack up with Intel's 1080p enabled Pine Trail very well. At least considering price. An all-in-one might easily get away with it, but I'm no so sure notebooks.

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A lot of activity around e-book readers at CES keeps going on after the end of the show. Announced readers, most of those at least, are coming out this winter. The new Amazon Kindle DX will be released tomorrow and Spring Design's Alex no sooner then February. In the meantime ASUS has spiced the dish a bit with an info leak about a mysterious DR-570. Well, maybe not so mysterious - it is also an e-book reader but unlike all the others we have, RD-570 has an OLED screen which is a thing you'd want in a reader, gives an unparalleled contrast ratio and improves hugely on battery life. The biggest part of ASUS DR-570 specs remains unannounced. However, some of the features and release date have been stated by ASUS. They say, DR-570 will feature 6" OLED display and ability to playback Flash content over Wi-Fi or 3G network for 122 hours on a single charge. Probably ASUS will add up all the rest of what modern e-reader needs - text-to-speech software, PDF reader, etc. A lot is going to be down to operating system.

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