NVIDIA’s Ion is finally in an actual netbook, the (as we expected) Lenovo S12 netbook which will ship in August. The Ion chipset combines an Intel Atom CPU with NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400 GPU, creating a netbook that while still netbook-ish will provide enough CPU / GPU power to be reasonably multimedia-savvy and also capable of playing a decent number of video games.
There was some conjecture during December of last year, with a first, later denied by Intel, that stated that Intel would not unbundle the Atom CPU from its 945GSE and 945GC chipsets, thus killing the Ion platform. With both the Lenovo S12 and the earlier Asus Revo nettop, we see that’s definitely not the case.
With the NVIDIA Ion chipset, the Lenovo netbook is basically a midrange, 12.1″ netbook. Full specs and full story from technologyexpert.blogspot.com.