Early last year, NVIDIA was about two things, its latest line of GeForce GT200 graphics cards and the new NVIDIA ION chipset, a product designed to marry Intel's successful Atom processor to NVIDIA's integrated GeForce graphics. Following the release, several system vendors rushed to adopt the company's solution in one of their latest products, including Acer, ASUS and others. Fortunately, we had the pleasure of testing out some of these devices, putting them through their paces and taking a look at what they can provide, in terms of performance.

One of the first NVIDIA ION-based systems that arrived at our doorstep was the Aspire Revo, from Acer, basically the first computer system to integrate NVIDIA's Atom-supporting solution. Following the Aspire Revo was the Pegatron 7, a design later adopted by Lenovo for its own NVIDIA ION-based product. On that note, late last year, we had a chance to play a bit with another ION-based product, this time coming in the form of a 10-inch netbook, designed by Point of View.

Point of View specializes in the development of NVIDIA-based graphics cards, but the outfit has recently started expanding its market reach, by entering the personal computing segment. This is where the Mobii ION mini notebook comes into place, as this is one of the company's products that integrate the aforementioned chip.



The Mobii ION mini notebook is essentially an ION-based netbook that marries the Intel Atom N230 processor to the NVIDIA GeForce integrated graphics solution. The design is available in different colors and is featured with a 10.2-inch display, similar to some of the many other Atom-only netbooks recently launched on the market. Unlike the other NVIDIA ION-based solutions we had the pleasure of reviewing, this small computer system has to integrate battery-pack, which would tell us something about the power efficiency of NVIDIA's low-power solution.



Point of View's ION-based mini notebook is the alternative to all the other Atom-only computer systems outed during these months. With that in mind, we proceeded to the testing part of your review and got to spend some quality time with the small-sized laptop.