01 Feb 10 Shanzai Outs First Dual Core Athlon Neo Notebook
Shanzai of China has announced the launch of the first dual core Athlon Neo notebook which should get some branded manufacturers to take notice. Normally you would think they would be the first to come out with such a technology but Shanzai apparently beat them to it.
Among the features of these new dual core Athlon Neo notebooks include a 13.3” 1366×768 display, a dual-core Athlon Neo X2 L325 (1.5GHz) or single-core Sempron 210U processor and an integrated ATI Radeon X1270 graphics card with HDMI out. It weighs about 1.77kg. No word on pricing and international availability.
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29 Aug 09 MSI U210 now available for pre-order
MSI has yet to announce North American availability for their U210 netbook but that hasn’t stopped Amazon.com from putting it up for pre-order.
The above pictured device will feature a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor, a 1366×768 12.1 inch WXGA display, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive and 802.11n WiFi connectivity. All of this added to Vista Home Premium and a 6 cell battery rated good for 5 hours and you have yourself an above par notebook.
The only bad part? It’s priced at $429.99.
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06 Jan 09 HP Pavilion dv2 the First Notebook Running on AMD Athlon Neo Platform
The HP Pavilion dv2 is going to be talked about these following days. It’s the first notebook which is going to run on that AMD Athlon Neo platform we’ve discussed earlier today.
The Pavilion dv2 will boast a 12.1 inch LED-backlit display and it will weigh just under four pounds. We’ll find a 2.5 inch hard drive inside it and you can choose from the 160GB base model all the way up to the 500GB model. Optional Blu-ray is available and as for ports we’re going to find three USB ports, an HDMI port, a 5-in-1 memory card reader, a VGA and an Ethernet port.
The dv2 will arrive in espresso or moonlight, or black or white if you have to ask. What we need now is a launch day and an exact price although we suspect this laptop will cost anywhere from $500 to $1,000.
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06 Jan 09 AMD to Enter Netbook Business with Athlon Neo Platform
One of the big names still absent from the flourishing netbook business is AMD. The company has decided not to enter this niche yet but it’s definitely reconsidering its options. We’re not going to see AMD in our next netbooks just yet but AMD has decided to release the Athlon Neo platform for ultrathin notebooks.
AMD is thinking about notebooks which have bigger screens than netbooks but are still ultraportable and fairly cheap. AMD will use its new platform for notebooks in the 11 to 13 inches range.
The platform featuring the 1.6GHz Neo is said to handle better multiple applications better than Intel Atoms and it will be bundle with an ATI Radeon graphic card, either the X1250 or the HD3410.
One of the first laptops to use the new platform is a 12-inch Pavilion dv2 from HP which is thin and ultraportable and it will be priced under $1,000. Isn’t AMD a little bit too late to release a new notebook platform?
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