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You have to admire NVIDIA, they are very confident about their new NVIDIA ION system and are not shy about showing it off. Over at Tweaktown there is a video of the NVIDIA ION doing all sorts of impressive things within Windows 7 Beta. The first part of the clip shows it multitasking between PowerPoint and a HD movie clip. Then for the next piece of magic at the same time as the movie is running the system is creating a compressed copy of the movie for use with a portable media player. All the time the clip runs smoothly with no noticeable glitches.
They then swap to demoing a game Left 4 Dead that's running at 720p, all looks good, lots of bad people get shot and no juddering of the video.

In separate news, NVIDIA have announced that the NVIDIA ION system has become certified by Microsoft to run Windows Vista Home Premium.

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