Digital Home Thoughts: Ion Netbook Roundup

"It's been more than a year since NVIDIA announced its Ion platform, promising to bring HD video and gaming to the underpowered Atom CPU. After all the hold ups, we started to wonder if we'd ever see the platform packed inside a netbook, so imagine our surprise when no less than four Ion-based machines launched in the past few months. With bigger screens, better specs, more graphics muscle and, of course, the resulting higher price tag, each of these Ion machines promises quite a bit, but which one lives up to the hype?"

Click through for Engadget's full comparison. But the short version is too little, too late and that most users won't like the trade off of cost and battery life for increased horsepower.