As Acer announces the AspireRevo, the first small-form-factor PC (nettop) based around NVIDIA's Ion platform which combines an NVIDIA GPU and Intel Atom microprocessor.
As Acer announces the AspireRevo, the first small-form-factor PC (nettop) based around NVIDIA's Ion platform which combines an NVIDIA GPU and Intel Atom microprocessor.
NVIDIA's product manager David Ragones is convinced that Ion-based nettops will shake up the market much in the way that netbooks did:
"We believe that fundamentally that this is going to disrupt the market, just like netbooks disrupted the notebook last year. We believe that 2009 is going to be the year of the small-form-factor PC."
All that crammed into a package measuring 7.1 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches - impressive.
Not only can the AspireRevo handle 1080p video (Blu-ray), but it's also powerful enough to handle games such as Spore, Call of Duty 4, and Sim City 5. That's pretty impressive (although I'll be interested in seeing just how well it can handle these games).
