Nvidia Ion and AMD yukon/congo gaming?

I have been hearing a lot of hype about these new platforms.
in all of the demonstrations on youtube they show some pretty good multitasking abilities, and not to shabby gaming. still there isn't much information about what kind of variations will be available and i haven't been able to find any benchmark graphics and gaming tests. I am concerned about the atom cpu though, it seams like it would be a real weak point. has anyone heard anything about these platforms being available with different cpu or performance options? or is there any gossip out there on plans to take this platform to a high performance gaming level?

If this tech goes in the right direction I may have to wait a while before I get a new lappy.

this review was pretty good: http://www.guru3d.com/article/nvidia-ion-platform-review-preview/

vid of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRTlqjkpxU&feature=related

 

They are meant to bridge the gap of netbooks and notebooks. HPs dv2z which is Yukon based has shown to be decent at lower level gaming since it has a Radeon 3410 GPU and 256 MB of dedicated memory.

 

I guess i should still spring for the g50vt-x5 then huh?

 

Yeah, if you want to game, you definetly need to go more mainstream. Sounds like a good plan on your part unless you just want to play older games.

 

For gaming, I have given up on Netbooks forever, there will always be too much of a compromise. For gaming, I won't accept less than an NP8662.

 

Netbooks and single core ULV processors will never be notebook replacements if you're interested in anything more tasking than web browsing, flash-based gaming, word processing, or movie watching (with Ion or Congo because even the GN40 supposedly sucks).

 

That's what most people thinks, but it's not the reality.

Netbooks are as fast as laptops from 2-3 years ago. Anything that computer from back then can do, you can do it on netbook.

A standard netbook can do photo editing, video editing, database, play 1080P HD videos at 5Mbit/s or 720P at 10Mbit/s, web browsing...etc

 

If you're looking to handle video or photo editing seriously then you're better off with a 13-15" laptop....as much for the screen resolution as for the processing power. A netbook will never do as well for those tasks as a full specc'd notebook and will never replace a notebook as a primary PC.


My ancient 200Mhz Quantex PC could do photo/video editing and gaming back in the day but there's no way I'd try to play Crysis on it.

 

I use my quadcore desktop for serious photo and video editing.

 

Netbooks are meant for their portability. They're not "meant" to replace larger laptops nor are they meant to become anything near the sort. Even if you "could" magically fit all the power of a laptop in a netbook, you'd have the issue of size to deal with and that's the whole POINT of a netbook.

There's only so much you can do anyways while on the road and with a 10-12" screen >.>

 

well in my dream world I have a 12inch lappy that that can play crysis on full settings for 8 hours unplugged. it weighs 1lb, stays room temp no matter what and can survive falling off a horse...
...in my dream world.

 

LOL weight has never been a concern for me, it's the physical dimensions I worry about. For a short while, I used to carry both a notebook tablet convertible and my Gateway M7515 around at the same time when I went to school so I'd have my school machine, and my entertainment machine with me