“There are alternatives to the Atom platform and one of the major competitors is AMD’s Athlon 2 Neo range. Combined with a DirectX 10.1 GPU it forms a well-balanced platform, one which Dell has chosen to base their latest ultra-portable system on. For those who want something a little bigger than the standard 10″ netbook today we have the Inspiron M101z which is an AMD Vision based 11.6″ laptop.”Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
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Dell chooses AMD for their new ultra mobile
The new Inspiron from Dell is called the M101z and it is an AMD powered 11.6″ netbook. Powered by the Athlon 2 Neo K325 @ 1.3GHz a pair of 2GB DDR3-1333 DIMMs from Samsung that actually run at 800MHz and the graphics are provided by the 785GX chipset, so a Radeon 4200 Series. Hardware Heaven was impressed with the internals but what really got them excited was the style apparent in the casing of this netbook.