The Asus Eee PC 1015PN has a dual core Intel Atom processor and NVIDIA ION graphics. Specs-wise, it is one of the most powerful netbooks on the market at the moment. Agreed, netbooks are under powered machines and won’t come close to a notebook sporting a Core i-series processor. That said, the Eee PC 1015PN [...]
AMD is expected to launch its second-generation DX11 graphics cards next week. The new chipsets are refreshed models of the Radeon HD 5000 series. The Radeon HD 6xxx GPUs are expected to deliver a decent boost in performance. AMD says that the company will flood the market with ‘hundreds of thousands of units’ before the [...]
AMD has finally decided that it is time to kill off the ATI brand name. The chip maker acquired the graphics company ATI years ago, but continued to release new graphics cards under the ATI brand name. What this meant was that you could buy a computer with an AMD CPU and an ATI GPU. [...]
Intel HD integrated graphics solutions will start supporting 3D this summer which means that you will be able to watch Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D movies on your laptop powered by an Intel Core 2010 processor and integrated HD graphics. No discrete graphics card is necessary. It is still unclear whether the 3D support will come in [...]
Throwing a NVIDIA ION or some other graphics card inside a netbook will give it decent video playback capabilities. There is one problem, though. Not all netbooks ship with ION graphics or Broadcom’s Crystal HD video accelerator. Fortunately, adding an external graphics card will offer the same boost in performance. The upcoming MSI Graphics Upgrade [...]
