Asus Eee netbook with ATI graphics rumoured
A RATHER CURIOUS Asus Eee netbook has tipped up online sporting an integrated ATI graphics card.
Asus, which already has a raft of Eeeeees under its belt, seems to have wanted to make something a tEeeny bit different than every other netbook currently available and, if eeepc.it is to be believed, the firm has certainly managed to get a raised eyebrow from us.
Specs posted by an Italian E-tailer for the upcoming Eee PC 1000HV, claim the machine sports a standard Intel Atom N280 processor coupled with an ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics processor with 256MB of dedicated memory. Now, this could simply be a case of human error on the vendor's part, but it could also be an innovative move on Asus's part. Especially while Nvidia and Intel grapple over IGP vs Ion, it would make it that much more entertaining to see AMD sneak into the netbook market through the back door.
An advert for the 10 inch netbook notes features such as a 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, 1024x600 resolution display, in built card-reader, 1.3M webcam, WLAN 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.0. There is, of course, also a VGA port, plus three USB 2.0 ports, RJ-45 LAN and standard I/O ports, but no hint of HDMI.
Running Microsoft Windows XP as its OS, the Eee 1000HV appears to be of standard netbook size, with dimensions of 26.6 by 3.8 by 19.12 cm. The website also claims the system will run on a 6-cell battery with a rather disappointing maximum of just five hours of juice.
Most eye-opening, however, is the staggeringly steep 500 euro price tag slapped on the little lappie by its vendor, but with no official word yet from Asus, this may prove to be a tad over inflated. No doubt we'll find out soon enough. µ
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means shared memory. Not dedicaded
Could this be Intel Atom based answer to the recently released HP Pavilion DV2 which has the new Athlon Neo CPU in it?
I thought that Intel were going to use the CULV series of CPUs for that?
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What is it with these netbook manufacturers?
The whole reason people buy and use netbooks is because they are small, light and cheap. They don't want to support Vista Aero (Hell, they don't even want Vista) and don't want to play 3d games. They want something to do a light bit of web browsing, some emailing and maybe a bit of word processing/spread sheet work.
The only choice you really want is the size of screen, size/type of storage and battery life.
For me that was 10" (1024x600), 160gig and about 5 hours.
Perfect for throwing in my hand luggage, storing the pictures from my camera and maybe doing a little bit of office work.
For the kind of price these "netbooks" are starting to reach I would just go and buy a laptop... Except I already have one of those.
So stop using new technology to add more and more features, just use it to make them more "netbook"... Smaller, lighter and lower power!
I bought a very lightly used secondhand Thinkpad X61 for mildly over 500 quid. The difference between it and a netbook is night and day.
6 hours battery life. 1024x768 screen. 2GHz Core2Duo with VT enabled. 802.11n. Decent keyboard. Supports 8GB RAM..
Netbooks should be small, cheap, with excellent battery life.
The Asus N10J with nVidia 9300M is around the same price, so that price is really not that surprising or high.
Well, you could call it a rounding error, but in my book (and wallet) 449 EUR is a bit less than 499EUR.
Still you might call this overpriced but if you get it at -20% rebate (=360EUR) as is often the case with an e-tailer things look much better then...
I've got an ATI 780G board, and the HD3200 northbridge is gigantic! How on earth did they fit on into a netbook without adding 1 kilogram, putting out 1,000BTUs of heat and having a 6 minute battery life?