Asus has released a new notebook that pairs Intel Core series processor with Nvidia Optimus Technology. The result is a high-performance notebook that provides great battery life.

Recently Nvidia announced its next generation of Ion platform having dedicated graphics memory. The new Ion is based on Nvidia Optimus technology that delivers a 10 hour of superb graphics performance on a single charge. Acer Aspire One 532G and Asus Eee PC 1201PN are the first Ion 2 based netbooks.

NVIDIA Ion has been a success enabling healthy graphical support to low end devices such as netbook, nettops and All-in-One desktops. Among the netbook manufacturers, ASUS, Lenovo and HP were on the top of the list to market  netbooks based on NVIDIA Ion. Those netbooks were a great success and had quite an edge over [...]