Expect HP to come up with pleasant surprises at the most unexpected times. HP has announced the launch of the Mini 311 which is loaded with Nvidia’s Ion graphics processing unit which marks the entry of  HP into the Graphics enabled gaming netbooks following the Acer Revo and Samsung N510.

The inclusion of the Nvidia Ion means that this one could easily play a 1080p video and could make a decent attempt at gaming. A game of Batman: Arkham asylum could be played decently on this one, obviously with reduced details. According to the people at Nvidia the Ion enabled nettop balances power in a much better way as compared to the Ultra-Low Voltage segment  offered in the markets by the likes of MSI X-Slim and Samsung X-series.

According to Jeff Fisher head of the GPU department at Nvidia this move by HP is surely going to create huge waves in a market where just until the last month, netbooks were considered to be inappropriate for playing games.

Apart from the gaming features this one has a lot in store for every netbook fan and we would be coming up with a hands on review over it soon.

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