Intel’s pretty much had the netbook and thin and light laptop space to itself for the last few years. Sure, VIA and ARM have tried to make a dent, but neither has really had much success. And for the most part, AMD has been sitting back and watching. The company’s early forays into the low power, thin and light space…

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The Asus Eee PC 1201T is the first member of the Eee PC notebook family to feature an AMD processor. And now that it’s shipping in the US, it looks like it’s also the cheapest 12 inch notebook from Asus. Newegg is selling it for just $389.99 — although that’s partially due to the fact that this laptop ships without…

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[/caption] While Intel is without question the dominant chip-maker in the netbook space thanks to its low power Atom chips, the company has a little more competition in the budget thin and light laptop space. Basically these are laptops with 11 to 14 inch displays. They tend to weigh less than 4 pounds, and companies including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP,…

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The Eee PC 1201T is one of umpteen versions of the Asus Eee PC 1201-series of laptops. They all have 12.1 inch, 1366  x 768 pixel displays ans the same chassis and keyboard. But while the Eee PC 1201N, 1201HA, and 1201NL all have Intel Atom processors, the Eee PC 1201T has an AMD Neo MV-40 CPU and ATI Radeon…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e stands apart from other notebooks in the thin and light crowd in a couple of ways. First, it has an AMD Neo MV-40 processor and ATI Radeon 3200 HD graphics, which you don’t find in a lot of 11.6 inch laptops. Second, it has a distinctive keyboard design. Third, it’s got Lenovo’s signature TrackPoint system which…

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You know that rumor that was going around yesterday saying that Asus could ship an AMD powered Eee PC model as soon as February? It was wrong. The folks at Netbook News.de discovered that you can order an Asus Eee PC 1201T with an AMD Neo MV-40 CPU in Germany today. The Eee PC 1201T looks virtually identical to the…

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A few weeks ago Toshiba introduced a new version of its T115 thin and light 11.6 inch laptop. The new version is available with an AMD Neo processor and ATI Radeon 3200 graphics, while the earlier versions shipped with Intel CULV processors and graphics. Notebook Review forum member Aerows is one of the first people to receive a new Toshiba…

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The Toshiba Satellite T115 is an 11.6 inch thin and light laptop that’s been available for a few months with an Intel Consumer Ultra Low Voltage processor. The T135 is pretty much the same thing, but with a 13.3 inch display. Now both models are available with a choice of an Intel Pentium SU4100 processor or a shiny new AMD…

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Last month Asus showed off a previously unannounced variation of the Asus Eee PC 1201 at a trade show in China. Now the company has created an English language web site for the Eee PC 1201T. There’s no word on a price or launch date yet, but here’s what we do know: This will be the first Asus Eee PC…

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While AMD was in no rush to challenge Intel on smaller netbooks, it seems pretty clear that 11.6″ machines is where they’re drawing the line in the sand. Models like the Asus 1201T are starting to appear running the Neo processor, and now we’ve got two (possibly) from MSI set to land on U.S. soil. As spotted by Wireless Goodness,…

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In terms of performance and battery life, MSI’s new Wind U230 seems to fall somewhere between the other Wind netbooks and MSI’s line-up of larger, more traditional notebooks. It’s got a solid ATI GPU under the hood, and performed well in gaming tests – though the AMD Neo processor couldn’t keep up with Intel’s SU7300. Nevertheless, the thin-and-light U230 is…

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Asus will apparently be launching three different versions of the upcoming Eee PC 1201 12.1 inch notebook. We already knew about the Eee PC 1201N, which would feature an Intel Atom processor and NVIDIA ION graphics and the Eee PC 1201HA which will have an Atom Z520 processor and GMA 500 graphics. But now it looks like there will also…

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