Asus Announces AMD Congo-powered Eee PC
We've always been of the opinion that anything over 10-inches is more of a low-powered notebook than it is a netbook -- so Asus' decision to call its 12.1-inch Eee 1201AH a netbook is already a bit of a stretch in our books. However, the addition of AMD's 1.6GHz Congo MV40 processor, along with the RS780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics, means that line between netbook and low-powered notebook is even blurrier.
As far as connectivity goes, there's VGA out, three USB 2.0, ethernet, a multi-format memory card reader, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. According to Slashgear, the whole thing weighs in at 1.46kg while measuring 296 x 208 x 27.3-33.3 mm including the standard 6-cell battery.
Pricing and release date have yet to be revealed, but we'll let you know!
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alafrikingluia... is my time for buying a "netbook" coming closser? =P if it has an HDMI port and i'd say it is xD
Requesting netbook benchmark from TH
+1Now that there are netbooks with GFX chips, we need HD content playback benches, and maybe even some gaming benches. I suggest you use older titles to bench, not Crysis... ;-)
Though ironically now, crysis is an older title!
I agree though, less demanding but commonly played titles, like WoW l4d and (for me personally) Eve online
Something in between...
Though don't expect to much from this equipment even if with a HD3200.