I’ve always found NVidia’s ION system fascinating, but it doesn’t get a lot of respect from most people because it’s so underwhelming compared to the GeForce & Quadro lines.  But I find this new motherboard design from Giada just impressive.

Giada MI-ION2 motherboard features Intel Atom D525 processors,Intel NM10 chipset,NVIDIA ION2 board-based graphics card,512MB DDR3 memory.There are two DDR2 SO-DIMM slots supportng up to DDR2-667 memory,with mamimun capacity of 4GB,and the card employs two SATA2 ports.

It’s basically an entire computer in a box, for only $221.  It’s not super-powerful, but add in some cheap memory and maybe a DVD player and an SSD, and you’ld have a pretty nice PCTV rig that has just enough horsepower to drive 1080p I bet.

via ION2 platform,Giada MI-ION2 motherboard,super-thin – Expreview.com.