Tuesday, December 28th 2010
MSI Readies AMD Brazos-Powered Wind 12-inch Notebook
MSI jumped on the AMD Fusion "Brazos" bandwagon by showing off its first implementation based on the new platform. The company held a press-meet in Taipei well ahead of CES in hopes of giving its latest creation some exclusive exposure ahead of the mega event. The Wind U270 from MSI, is a 12-inch ultra-portable driven by AMD Fusion "Zacate" E-350 dual-core accelerated processing unit (APU), the x86-64 processor cores are clocked at 1.60 GHz, and feature the latest instruction sets. The APU embeds AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics that's DirectX 11 compliant, featuring UVD 3.0 video acceleration. The third key component is 4 GB of DDR3 memory.
The Wind U270 uses MSI's tried and tested 12-inch Wind chassis with Chiclet keyboard. Other hardware specifications include 320 GB (500 GB optional) hard drive based storage, WiFi b/g/n, gigabit Ethernet, display connectivity that includes D-Sub, and HDMI; two USB 3.0 ports, card reader, and VGA webcam. Although battery life isn't mentioned, the notebook features an Eco mode that conserves power.
Source:
Netbooknews
The Wind U270 uses MSI's tried and tested 12-inch Wind chassis with Chiclet keyboard. Other hardware specifications include 320 GB (500 GB optional) hard drive based storage, WiFi b/g/n, gigabit Ethernet, display connectivity that includes D-Sub, and HDMI; two USB 3.0 ports, card reader, and VGA webcam. Although battery life isn't mentioned, the notebook features an Eco mode that conserves power.
14 Comments on MSI Readies AMD Brazos-Powered Wind 12-inch Notebook
I am wondering if we will be able to play fps games on these gfx? I would like to see some benchmarks or have an idea how powerful they will be?
Great to see these starting to come out, looking forward to even more powerful ones in the future.
These will murder eee netbooks
AMD Fusion "Zacate" E-350 dual-core accelerated processing unit (APU), the x86-64 processor cores are clocked at 1.60 GHz, and feature the latest instruction sets. The APU embeds AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics that's DirectX 11 compliant, featuring UVD 3.0 video acceleration. The third key component is 4 GB of DDR3 memory.
just to point out something awesome for us tech geeks out there, that cant stand a netbook surfing speed (try surf and you will be flash'ed down with ads!)
Battery life should be a lot better than the latter, though.
you have to remember that amd cpus all since opteron from 2003 has no front slow bus
amd brazos plaform has DX11 GPU that has DirectCompute/OpenCL support, a out-of-order cpu, built in blu-ray hardware decoding
in the same size as intel atom, am pretty sure someone would forgive amd to be a little slower on gpu when there is not that many gaming on their netboks :P