If you’re considering buying a netbook, PCWorld advise you to wait a while longer. Imagine a netbook can play a first person shooter game or play a HD video. All this has been possible for realization where nVidia has showed platform “Ion” which combines Intel Atom CPU with nVidia GeForce 9400M is also used in the Apple MacBook 2008 product lines.
Ion platform consists of a Pico ITX motherboard that can load an Atom CPU, GeForce 9400M GPU, an HDMI connector, SATA, USB 2.0 and Ethernet (most netbook just has VGA connector and 2 USB ports).
Nvidia man Drew Henry said even though Intel Atom has a ratio of performance / watts, in his opinion restriction to Intel Atom (only compatible for 945GSE and 945GC Intel chipset) will hamper its development in the future. Therefore, Nvidia expects to be able to work with the PC manufacturers to create a platform that combines MCP7A and MCP79 chipset to improve netbook performance in graphics drastically.