Thursday 8 December 2011

Hardware

There are three platforms that are primarily advised for nettops and netbooks:

Intel's Centrino Atom platform,[46]

Nvidia's Ion platform[47]

VIA's Trinity Platform.[48]

Some nettops accept additionally adopted system-on-a-chip designs. Although abounding above genitalia such as chipsets, video cards and accumulator accessories can additionally be begin on desktops, the CPUs that are put central nettops are the axiological basic that differentiate them from accustomed desktops. The account beneath contains a ambit of accouterments apparatus that a archetypal nettop may be accumulated from.

CPU

Intel Atom (x86)

VIA Nano and VIA C7 processors (x86)

AMD Fusion (x86)

AMD Geode (x86)

ARM Cortex-based CPU (ARM)

Loongson (MIPS)

GPU

Intel GMA 950

S3 Graphics Chrome

GeForce 9400M G (integrated into MCP79MX; Nvidia ION platform)

AMD Radeon HD 6310

ATI HD4530

PowerVR

Chipset

945GSE and 945GC Express chipsets

MCP79MX (integrated GeForce 9400M G GPU; Nvidia ION platform)

VIA VX800 IGP Chipset

RAM

about 512 MB to 2 GB SDRAM, DDR or DDR2 memory

Accumulator devices

at atomic 1 GB beam memory

2.5" adamantine deejay drive or solid-state drive (SSD)

Network

Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi

I/O ports

LAN, USB 2.0, video out, audio out

Intel's Atom processor has been adopted by several accouterments manufacturers, such as ASUS, MSI, and Sony, for nettops. Nvidia has additionally appear its aboriginal bearing ION platform, which puts GeForce 9400M Motherboard GPU alongside the Atom processor to accommodate more good aerial analogue video playback adeptness and lower ability consumption.[49] In addition, Nvidia has appear that its will abutment VIA's CPUs this year.[50] To added abate the accomplishment amount and advance ability efficiency, abounding manufacturers and start-up companies accept called to use CPUs that were originally targeted at anchored accretion accessories such as AMD's Geode and ARM Cortex-based CPUs

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