The other day the Asus Eee PC 1201K 12.1 inch laptop with an AMD Geode processor went on sale in Italy. For AMD fans who don’t want an Asus notebook with a 7 year old CPU, on the other hand, it looks like there may be a new option: The Asus Eee PC 1215T. This […]
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Acer Aspire One 721 review
At first glance, the Acer Aspire One 721 is little more than a larger version of the Aspire One 521 netbook I reviewed earlier this summer. Both models have the same AMD Athlon II Neo K125 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. They both have wide, flat keyboards and similar case designs. But while […]
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Toshiba Satellite T215D reviewed: AMD-powered mini-laptop
While AMD was largely absent from the netbook and thin-and-light laptop space for the past few years, the company is making pretty big inroads this summer. Dell, Acer, HP, Samsung, and other major PC makers have introduced models with AMD’s new Nile-based chips. And the folks at Laptop Magazine have published one of the first […]
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Dell Inspiron M101z review
This is usually the part of the review where I spell out the specs of a new laptop and explain how it fits in with other recent machines from the PC vendor. But I want to get something out of the way first: The Inspiron Mini M101z is the best budget thin and light laptop […]
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Acer Aspire One 521 review
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 […]
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Acer Aspire One 521, 721 reviewed: Decent performance, meh on battery life
For the past two years, virtually every netbook released has shipped with an Intel Atom processor and integrated graphics. A few mini-laptops with 12 inch displays shook things up a bit with NVIDIA ION graphics or Broadcom HD video accelerators, but the truth is that if you look at the performance section of most of […]
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HP Pavilion DM1z with AMD processor spotted in France
Acer and MSI aren’t the only companies showing off new mini-laptops with shiny new AMD chips this week. The folks at nDevil spotted an HP Pavilion DM1z on display at an AMD event in France this week. It looks like an updated version of the HP DM1 which was introduced last year. The new model […]