Nvidia ION LE hack adds Direct X10 support

[Chris]

Nvidia's Ion chipset comes in two flavors: Ion and Ion LE with the only difference of the two being that Ion offers Direct X10 and Ion LE only offers Direct X9 at a lower price. In an interesting turn of events it appears as though Nvidia intentionally crippled the Ion LE chipset artificially. MyHPMini forum [...]

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I have no use for Ion or DirectX 10 on a netbook. My netbook is limited to email, surfing and some personal software like language study. I'm not going to replace my 6 months old netbook for a new model nor am I going to buy Seven when I have a license to run XP.

The netbook does not seem to me to be a good platform for gaming and video but I can certainly understand the interest and development that some put into it.

Quote: "DirectX 10 features advanced 3-D graphics-rendering capabilities and helps improve your computer's performance in games and high-end 3-D applications.

Providing a standard 3D development platform for Windows-based PCs, it also provides software developers access to powerful hardware features without the need to write hardware-specific code. For gamers and video enthusiasts, this translates to reliable, higher-performance graphics when you're playing games on your PC."