NVIDIA Ion Demo: Call of Duty 4 Coming to Netbooks (CES 2009)

Call of Duty 4 is my favorite game and pretty soon I’ll be able to play it almost anywhere thanks to NVIDIA. The new Ion platforn, which combines an Intel Atom processor with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics, delivers up to 10x the graphics performance of current generation netbooks.

I stopped by the NVIDIA booth at CES 2009 to play Call of Duty 4 on the Ion reference design and was impressed by the demo.

The game was set to its lowest settings, so don’t expect jaw-dropping graphics on a netbook from graphics-intensive games like Call of Duty 4. But the good news is that you’ll be able to at least fire up COD4 on the road once Ion netbooks hit the market.

Tags: netbooks, NVIDIA

Comments

rick

This machine is the wave of the future.I'm just glad these tiny machines and netbooks are finally getting real graphics cards. The GMA 950 is the weakest link in netbooks and a great reason not to buy them. The GMA lacks shaders and other features to adequately play games from even 4 years ago.

Ryan Anstey

I only saw video lag on linux, but once I installed XP I never had any of that, except for big HD videos running locally of course.

Xavier

rick- my biggest gripe about netbooks (I've used several) is that they choke on web video. Average consumer doesn't understand why they can't watch a video from Hulu, Joost, etc on a netbook/notebook regardless of price.

Anže

Yea, I agree - I'd hate to have a netbook & then I wouldn't be able to watch videos on the web ... this is the future; even looking at the news pages; everyone has more and more videos on it

Huh, talking about it - I must say, that I hate pages with videos in flash (jp, like this one), because when going full screen, it doesn't run smoothly -> I'd really like to see how (current) netbooks can handle this.

I'm buying a netbook for a year now (well, I'm from a country where there are only following netbooks to choose from: EEEpc 701, 904, HP 2133, Wind, Toshiba and Acer) ... but nevertheless, I'll be buying something from Germany in the following months ...
... actually wanted to wait for HP 2140, but if there is really a better GPU coming before summer, I don't think this would make sense ('cos even 2140 won't come to Germany before March!)