Chip maker AMD acquired graphics company ATI a few years back but continued to produce graphics cards and processors under the ATI name. So while competitor Intel would pump out both CPU and GPU products with its own name on them, you could easily wind up buying a computer with an AMD CPU and ATI graphics card without necessarily realizing…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e is a thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch display. But unlike many of the laptops I’ve reviewed that meet that description, the ThinkPad X100e is aimed at business users. It has a professional look with a black, boxy case. And in addition to a multitouch trackpad, the ThinkPad X100e has a Lenovo TrackPoint pointing…

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The Dell Zino HD is a small form factor desktop that looks a bit like an oversized disc drive. But like the Mac Mini, the Dell Zino HD is a fully functional — if not exactly super-powerful computer. Dell has been offering the Zino HD with a relatively low power AMD chipset for a while, but Engadget spotted some documents…

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Dell UK has posted a product page for a new 11.6 inch laptop called the Dell Inspiron M101z. Unlike previous thin and light notebooks from Dell, this model packs an AMD processor and ATI graphics chip. In fact, the graphics and CPU components are quite similar to those of the Acer Aspire 521 which I recently reviewed. Both notebooks have…

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The Acer Aspire One 521 looks like a typical netbook. It has a 10 inch display, a slightly less than full sized keyboard, and it weighs just 2.8 pounds. But while virtually every netbook released over the past two years has shipped with a low power Intel Atom processor, the Acer Aspire One 521 is powered by a low power…

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[/caption] Let’s be honest. The Acer Aspire 521 doesn’t look all that different from most other 10 inch netbooks Acer has released so far this year. What’s different about this model is that it’s one of the first with an AMD processor and chipset instead of Intel components. But you wouldn’t really know that to look at the laptop. That…

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Intel, VIA, and ARM have been duking it out in the low power, low price laptop market for the past three years. And while Intel’s Atom chips are the reigning champs at the moment, Freescale, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and a number of other companies with ARM-based chips could put a serious dent in Intel’s lead if so-called “smartbooks” with integrated 3G…

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I’ve been seeing pictures of the Acer Ferrari One 11.6 inch laptop for so long that I almost didn’t notice that it wasn’t available in the US. But it turns out that it wasn’t… until today. The Ferrai One features a similar keyboard and form factor to Acer’s Timeline series of 11.6 inch laptops. But the Ferrari One has a…

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The Dell Zino HD is a small form factor PC. We’ve been tracking it for a couple of months, and now it’s finally available for pre-order in the US and order int he UK. I also got my first look at the computer at an event in New York last night. From the outside, the Dell Zino HD looks like…

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The HP Pavilion MS214 is a budget all-in-one desktop PC. You know, kind of like the Asus Eee Top ET2002, Lenovo C100, and a whole bunch of other machines I’ve mentioned over the past few months. But while many of those models help keep the price and power consumption low by using netbook-like Intel Atom processors, the HP Pavilion MS214…

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Up to now, AMD has spent more time bashing netbooks’ limitations as low power computing devices instead of pushing technology that can make them more powerful. But it looks like that could soon change. AMD is expected to announce a new chip this week aimed at low cost portable computers like netbooks and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). According to APC…

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