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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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Intriguing news from NVIDIA have appeared on their blog today. The brief announcement says NVIDIA is putting final touches on a mysterious Optimus technology. The manufacturers themselves say NVIDIA Optimus is notebook-orientated and works with platforms that carry an onboard NVIDIA graphic processor. NVIDIA Optimus technology will debut at CES 2010 and will be released in a short while afterwards in Q1. Optimus is designed to improve graphic experience on notebook platforms whilst keeping power management efficient. That is very pleasant to hear, but what was not yet pronounced by NVIDIA is the actual architecture of Optimus. The first thing that comes to my mind is making use of the latest Intel Atom Pineview processor, probably implementing it on top of the Ion platform. I'm really afraid to make suggestions here as Optimus could really be something completely new.

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