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MSI launches an AMD Fusion PC
TAIWANESE HARDWARE OUTFIT MSI has announced an AMD Fusion-based All-In-One (AIO) high end PC.
While Chipzilla's marketing team has been scrabbling around trying to fix dodgy Sandy Bridge chips that will cost it many millions, AMD's Fusion accelerated processing unit (APU) is getting all the right headlines at the moment. Lenovo just launched a C205 AIO PC with AMD's latest combo chip and MSI has also jumped straight in with its own hardware.
The Wind Top AE2050 AIO PC has a 20-inch multi-touch 1600x900 display. The UK offering comes in one flavour only, so you can't personalise from a range of configurations to suit your budget, but it doesn't look like MSI has skimped on much.
The company claims the PC will cope with multimedia content thanks to a massive 2GB or RAM on the AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU. It's not a discrete card, which would take up too much room in an AIO anyway, but it does offer DX11 for next generation games. There's also an embedded camera and some bespoke software apps to optimise touchscreen gestures for social notworking.
The AMD Fusion model is the Brazos based E-350 with a dual core AMD 1.6GHz CPU inside. That's combined with 500GB of storage capacity, support for two USB 3.0 ports and 802.11n WiFi. You'll also get a multi-card reader, an Ethernet port and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, but no Blu-ray.
MSI hasn't given us a price on the Wind Top AE2050 AIO PC yet, but it is out now. µ
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I think this must have been written up in as much time as this comment. 2GB ram is fine in a Netbook but on an all in one I would want more RAM than that. At least it will be better than my Atom couple with its 945 :)
who cares about "massive 2GB of RAM" in AIO desktop. it could be better than Netbook, for sure.
Based on a number of reviews the AMD E-350 seems to be a pretty capable APU for notebooks offering good performance and battery life. Low screen quality seems to be an issue on many of the notebooks however.
This isn't a sandy bridge replacement, its a higher performing desktop atom pc. The GPU benchmarks suggest it trades blows with NV ion, so it should play most games.
Should be a hit with universitys and schools though.
I personally am waiting on the msi x370, hoping they can get battery life above 10 hours, that will make a good buy.
How can they say there is a massive 2GB of RAM on the AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU?
Could it be a reference to total onboard memory of the Zacate chip?
While this may be "decent" for an AIO machine, the usage of "high end" is absurd. This wont even play most games that are 5 years old.