We’ve seen more and more netbooks with Intel’s latest Atom N450 Pine Trail in the last month. But what about their desktop equivalents, why is Asus, MSI, ASRock, Zotac and others still selling nettops using the rather old Intel Atom 230 and 330 processors, when they could also use the Atom N450?
The answer is obvious, everyone is waiting for Nvidia to released the next generation of ION platform at CeBIT 2010 in March (article was written on 4 February, published today). This is because after the CES in January and the release of Tegra 2, Nvidia said nothing yet about its new ION platform. Main reason may be that PC makers wanted to give existing ION netbooks and nettops a little more time on the market before bringing out something new.
It is too early to say how the new nettops will perform in terms of graphics capability, overall performance, and energy consumption. There are plenty of nettops available today for under $400 that would make excellent home theater PCs or inexpensive gaming machines, but it might worth to wait a few months for something much better.
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