Tuesday, September 27th 2011
Aspire One Powered by AMD C-60 Hits Shelves
Acer's first Aspire One 522 netbook powered by AMD's low-power C-60 accelerated processing unit hit shelves in Europe. The Aspire One 522 was released in January, powered by other AMD APUs that aren't as power-efficient as the C-60. The AMD C-60 features two x86-64 cores clocked at 1.00 GHz, which can jump up to 1.33 GHz with TurboCore, and a Radeon HD 6290 graphics core that runs at 276 MHz, that can run at 400 MHz with TurboCore.
The Aspire One 522 is a 10.1-inch netbook with all the essentials you'd expect from a netbook from this category, plus the performance advantage AMD's APUs bring to the table over Intel Atom. Its LED-backlit screen features 1280 x 720 pixels resolution, the APU is backed by 1 GB of DDR3 memory, and storage is care of a 320 GB hard drive. Connectivity includes a web-cam, 10/100 Ethernet, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and a 5-in-1 card reader. Display connectivity includes D-Sub and HDMI. A 6-cell battery powers the machine. It comes with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed. The new Aspire One 522 is priced at €279.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The Aspire One 522 is a 10.1-inch netbook with all the essentials you'd expect from a netbook from this category, plus the performance advantage AMD's APUs bring to the table over Intel Atom. Its LED-backlit screen features 1280 x 720 pixels resolution, the APU is backed by 1 GB of DDR3 memory, and storage is care of a 320 GB hard drive. Connectivity includes a web-cam, 10/100 Ethernet, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and a 5-in-1 card reader. Display connectivity includes D-Sub and HDMI. A 6-cell battery powers the machine. It comes with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed. The new Aspire One 522 is priced at €279.
18 Comments on Aspire One Powered by AMD C-60 Hits Shelves
sometimes we know nice product but nowhere to find
and at least we hear AMD join the battle
btw with 1ghz it aint sound interesting at all. smartphone now just have 1ghz onboard
the capabilities of different technologies are starting to blend but not necessarily all of the functions
can it run crysis???
AND Im not just saying because i already have one. but an E-350 has some serious benefits over the C-60
-More powerful GPU
-More Powerful CPU
-Supports more then 4Gb Ram
-Bigger screen resolution
-still small and very portable with most E-350 Ultraportables at around 11.6 compared to a original netbook at 10-10.1"
Only thing is it drinks more juice, but I doubt L4D is even playable on a C-50 or C-60 like it is on a E-350.
And yes - when i chose the E-350 I too was looking for more batterylife over raw performance
got my hands on 722, same C-60, only with bigger screen
When windows 8 and android x86 are released maybe we'll have some head to head benchmarks of the fastest CPU from ARM and lowest from AMD. Something tells me the several watt AMD is going to smoke a .5 watt ARM lolNow, people are starting whine about their netbooks running slow lol. No, really? You bought the slowest x86 CPU on the planet and thought that two years later you could do anything on it?
Cost should help AMD on this, though. People are getting frugal.
if the E-350 is anything to go by, the E-450 will be a lot better then even Intels latest series of atom processors.