Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chip has been getting quite some attention as of late. Besides being featured in a number of pocket-able handhelds, they’re now being slap onto nettops, totally bitchslapping Intel’s Atom processor right there.

Compulab has spin out a new fanless nettop featuring the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 and GeForce ULP chip, and since that chip is very much capable of 1080p content, this is a very logical move. This Compulab Trim Slice isn’t nearly as powerful as the AMD Fusion model we saw last week, but it sure is svelte, with a die-cast metal case just six-tenths of an inch thick yet packing in a SATA SSD, 1GB of RAM and I/O port that you’re all very familiar with.

Connectivity wise, there’s four USB 2.0 sockets, SD and microSD slots, HDMI, DVI, RS-232, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth, a pair of 3.5mm audio jacks and S/PDIF out for sound. But the supply of audio interface doesn’t stop there too, as there are support for JTAG, UART and SPI interfaces for extending the system on your own terms — and analog video-in, just in case you need it. That’s some serious features for a nettop.

The Trim Slice is expected to hit retail in April, priced “higher than a streamer, but lower than a tablet.” That doesn’t sound too bad at all eh?

SOURCE via Trim Slice