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The battle for netbook supremacy has been heating up over the last few weeks between chip manufacturer’s  Intel and Nvidia. Intel recently announced the release of the new PineTrail chipset which updated the year old Atom N270/N280 Cpu’s and the tired GMA950 Graphics platform. Early tests show that the new Pinetrail platform still continues to struggle with HD video, and lacks the capabilities of multimedia encoding tasks and most games. With most mainstream companies already announcing their new line of netbooks running Pinetrail, Nvidia chimes in and claims a new ION processor is already in the works.

Nvidia released the ION earlier this year adding GeForce 9 mobile series graphics performance with an Atom CPU. Intel claims the ION to be “overkill” and that netbook users do not need the multimedia capabilities that a standard laptop or Desktop has. Especially for the cost of lower battery life.  The ION chip brings full HD capabilities, multimedia transcoding, gaming, and an overall better graphics experience. A second generation ION is just around the corner claiming less power consumption and more graphics horsepower.

Check out the new Pinetrail Netbook Lineup

Via Liliputing