that is what i want to see.

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You are going to have to wait, for several reasons

1) Ion was just announced a few weeks ago and is still in the prototype stage, thus any possible laptop would still be in the idea stage and unless Asus or similar brands were working extremely closely with nvidia they probably don't even have the blueprints for the motherboards.
2) The dual core atoms have double to triple (depending on which atotm to atom you are comparing it to) the watts required to run the laptop thus draining battery faster. Thus you may have to wait for the new 32nm atoms.
3) Finally it is in the netbook companies best interest to release a netbook with a windows os (due to more marketshare, for better or worse people are less likely to buy a netbook with a non windows os). Microsoft in its rules for XP on netbooks says no dualcore atoms or more ram than 1 gig. Thus unless a company puts windows vista basic on the nettop you are probably waiting for windows 7.

Thus we probably won't see atom/ion notebooks until at least q3 09 and maybe not until q4 09/q1 10

here are microsoft's rules in short on what a netbook has to have to have xp home on it.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio...p;task=view&id=11200&Itemid=38

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The saying goes, "You innovate your way out of a recession," and this is exactly what Asus is doing. The new products look amazing.

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It reminds me of the old Apple IIC; just connect a display and you're good to go.

I'm curious how much the wireless HDMI recievers cost. It would be neat if they were built into TVs, so I could just pull the keyboard out from under the coffee table and start using the computer.

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however I'm sorta still hyped up about that EEE Box w/ the HD3400 graphics... they made the announcement.. but since then... no release date or anything! Have definitely been waiting for them to release it.

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Love the new products, but I'm worried the article for builder's is going to get pushed because of CES.

Mr. Fink, you're not at CES are you? :)

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And more importantly Andriod!!! I hope it can do some damage, because win 7 is not that great... not much of a upgrade to vista.

Netbooks are looking more and more attractive.

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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13867

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So... maybe now Asus can afford better web hosting? Or maybe even have a server in USA??? So it would be actually possible to download drivers in some reasonable time. I might consider then buying their products again.

Z.

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I've had issues with ASUS' web pages in the past, but not recently. For at least a couple years, the pages generally load fast and without issue. I'm pretty sure http://usa.asus.com/index.aspx is located in the US, although the download pages (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us) might still be on a Taiwan server. Anyway, give it a shot and see if it's better that last you checked before making too many assumptions.

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