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Mar 6, 2010 10:28 GMT  ·  By

While NVIDIA may have not made any groundbreaking unveilings at CeBIT when it came to the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 cards, it did bring out a graphics solution aimed at netbooks and entry-level systems. This next-generation ION has already been incorporated in several PCs that will become available over the next months. Adding to the growing list of companies that are adopting the new graphics is Giada, which took advantage of CeBIT to officially reveal a nettop with media center capabilities.

It is already known that the new ION platform from NVIDIA has been designed in such a way as to enable HD and Blu-ray media content playback on entry-level systems, such as nettops and netbooks.

These capabilities, of course, grow or are complemented when the system configuration itself brings in extra performance power. Giada attempted to do just that and designed its Cube-N7DT as a compact nettop, which tries to provide multimedia capabilities alike those of an HTPC.

The Cube-N7DT is powered by an Intel Atom D510 dual-core central processing unit, has 2GB of DDR3 memory and a 2.5-inch hard drive. In addition, the PC comes with HDMI, DVI and SPDIF outputs, as well as 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth.

The machine is supposedly capable of playing Blu-ray content, although the model on display only had a DVD burner. Still, there exist USB-enabled Blu-ray players, so end-users will be able to employ one such device until Giada releases a version with one built in.

In order for the nettop to interface with a wider variety of display solutions, the company also gave its fresh compact desktop a TV Tuner. Unfortunately, as has been the case with the larger part of products shown at CeBIT, it is unknown when the Giada Cube-N7DT will become available, or what price it will sport.