Originally Posted by naokaji
I think nividia is stupid for not selling that tiny system as a retail product.

In an office environment this platform would be awesome. Problem with your machine, IT guy can just walk over with a spare and you'd be back up and running within a few minutes.

now this is really nice for HTPC use, for anything not at all, hmm like this I would say its worth buying.

There's a mistake on page 2:

Nvidia claims that the GeForce 9400M consumes just 1W more (3W idle, 9W load) than the current 945GC and ICH7 chipset combination (2W idle, 8W load) used in all Diamondville-based devices.

Even though this doesn’t sound like a lot, it does amount to 40 percent and 12 percent higher power consumption at idle and under load respectively at the wattages we’re talking about.

2w - > 3w is a 50% increase (3-2 / 2 * 100)
8w -> 9w is a 12.5% increase (9-8 / 8 * 100)

Looks like a simple typo on the 40% figure.

Thanks for picking up on the typo - welcome to bit-tech!

What do you think the likely time frame of such technology hitting the consumer is, will we have are paws on Nvidia's ITX 9400 chipset board this year or next?

I really hope they use a standard ITX plateform for consumer release, so we can slap a BD-ROM drive on it, flash based storage coupled with a fat NAS based storage via Gbit lan.

Also it would give us a spare PCI slot for a decent PCI audio card.

HD HTPC all for less than £150 build cost! (including PSU, RAM, etc) yes please!

If it has some form of digital output, you don't really need a good soundcard. A good reciever or DAC will do that deed for you.

Surely it should be down to customers to decide how the product should be used?

That is so true!

Re: Cuda applications and Badaboom, it does say that the GPU is capable of doing that - make sure you have the latest drivers! Thing is, this GPU has only 16 stream processors which is pretty weak. I believe the fps transcoding speed it can do is similar to its number of stream processors. I guess it would be good to designate badaboom to work on the job while being able to do other things - similar to having a multiple core CPU.

http://www.badaboomit.com/?q=node/122

LOL :)) I don't know how it may be using for a home use... All devices like HDD DVD..must be external... keyboard and mouse usb...

I think it may be useful only for a thin clients for terminal server

My apologies for resurrecting this thread more than a month after the last most but... if you are looking for something that looks the same as/similar to this, take a look at the VIA ARTiGO. It has a very similar case, layout and size, with a similar Pico ITX motherboard, though obviously it has a VIA processor on it.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/images/products/embedded/artigo/10e.jpg
and then how it all fits together:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/10j.html

Its a nice VIA setup, but it does not have the thing that makes ion so get able, and that is the raw video processing power it has

Originally Posted by naokaji
I think nividia is stupid for not selling that tiny system as a retail product.

yes, it really really is a shame they won't sell this product... it would've been so awesome for me! it's exactly what i've been looking for in a HTPC...

Originally Posted by Cupboard
VIA pico-itx

ooo shiney, but how does the VIA chipset perform against the ION? maybe Bit can do a review... maybe? :p

im just waiting for a decent pico-itx board to come out and then ill use it for my next HTPC (assuming the chipset is good enough for HD)