Netbook Review UK

Remember the M1000 and Q1000C netbooks Gigabyte launched at CeBIT 2010? Well it turns out the new M1000 is also going to be one of the first netbooks to get the next generation NVIDIA ION graphics.  Netbook News.de reports that there a new version of the M1000, called the Gigabyte M1000N and will feature a 1.83GHz Intel Atom N470 CPU, a 1366 x 768 pixel HD display, and of course, the next gen. Ion graphics.

Nvidia’s next generation Ion platform will come in two flavours – one designed for 10″ netbooks and another for 12″ netbooks.  The 10″ version of Ion has only half the  CUDA cores of the ION chip found in nettops and notebooks with 11.6 inch or larger displays. That means Gigabyte M1000N  won’t have the graphics processing power of larger netbooks like the Acer Aspire One 532G and Asus Eee PC 1201N, but there will also be fewer pixels to push on the smaller screens.