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Emtec to launch Nvidia Ion nettop called the G Box

Emtec's G Box Nettop

*Update July 2nd: We have some new pictures of the Emtec G Box after the break

Emtec, the company behind the innovative but yet to be seen Gdium netbook are rumoured to be launching an Nvidia Ion powered nettop soon. The Gdium is somewhat out of the ordinary with a Loongson CPU, Mandriva Linux, and a removable USB flash drive that functions as the computer’s main storage device. We’re hoping the nettop will have similar interesting surprises.

So far, unfortunately, we have learned that the upcoming “G Box” nettoplooks a bit more standard. It will have a 160GB hard drive, and run Windows XP. It also has 6 USB ports, 4 on the back and 2 on th efront, an Ethernet adapter, mic and headphone jacks, and an Ethernet port and we’re assuming 802.11b/g capabilities although it wasn’t specifically mentioned.

An Emtec spokesperson confirmed that i will sell for about £179 in the UK (that’s about $293 US.) This model won’t have HDMI, but Pocket Lint reports that a pricier, HDMI-enabled version will be available as well.

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New Ion processors on their way from Nvidia in late 2009

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | Nettop processors with Comments

Nvidia Ion

Fudzilla has the inside track that Nvidia is hard at work on a successor to the already powerful Ion platform with significant improvements. Netbook Review UK reports that:

improvements are set to come in the form of decreased die size and much faster graphics coming with more than twice the shaders of the original Geforce 9400M /MCP79 chipset that the current Ion is based on (which uses 16 shaders).

That’s all the details we have for now, but NVIDIA is supposedly looking to launch Ion 2 by the end of this year.