When Drew Henry was asked at today's press conference about the battery life and performance of the ION platform he said that the battery life should be as good as it is on the current crop of Intel chipset based netbooks, but with ten times the performance.

However, the performance figures are limited to the things where the Nvidia chipset offers advantages over the Intel 945GSE, such as in 3D graphics, HD video playback and video encoding/transcoding. It's unlikely that we'll see any performance gains outside of this, although anything is possible as they say.

Even when Intel gets the GN40 chipset out, Nvidia should still have a superior platform, as Rene Haas said that the Geforce 9400M offers five times the performance compared to the GN40 using a Core 2 based mobile processor. It seems like Nvidia is very proud over what it has accomplished and is not shy when it comes to saying how bad Intel's chipsets for the Atom platform are.

None the less, we can't really fault Nvidia in this case, as the 945GSE chipset is over four years old now and the Geforce 9400M should become a far more popular solution for people that want a multimedia focused "cheap" notebook/netbook.