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The Acer Aspire One 532g with the new Nvidia ION 2 is coming soon.. and while waiting for it’s arrival, let’s see how well it performs compared to the first generation of ION netbook.

Netbooknews.com has got a chance to spend sometime with the Aspire One 532g, and ran the 3DMark03 benchmark. The result? It scores 3049 which is much better than the Samsung N150 which scores 704 and running Intel GMA 3150 integrated graphics. THe Samsung N510 which runs on the first-generation ION graphics however score 3513 points which is surprisingly higher than the ION2 netbook. On the other hand, the addition of Optimus to dynamically switch between integrated Intel graphics and the ION chipset to save battery life is definitely a great feature to have for the ION2 platform.

Check out the benchmarking video from netbooknews.com below:

Acer is coming up with a new netbook model called the Aspire One 532g which will be running on Intel Atom N450 processor and Nvidia Ion 2 platform which features the new dynamic switching Optimus technology to switch between integrated GMA 3150 graphics and Nvidia ION graphics on the fly.

Here’s a video explaining the difference between switchable graphics and Nvidia Optimus Technology:

The detail specification for the Acer Aspire One 532g is as below:

• 10-Inch display (looks like 1024 x 600)
• Intel Atom N450 processor
• Intel GMA 3150 graphics + Nvidia ION graphics (switchable)
• 2GB RAM
• 320GB HDD
• HDMI out
• 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• optional 3G
• 10 hour battery life
• 1-inch thin
• 1kg weight

According to Laptop Magazine, the Acer Aspire One 532g will have 10 hours of battery life and is expected to be made available in the first quarter of the year. Below are the video overview of this netbook from netbooknews.com and notebook italia: