Acer Aspire One 522 falls from the clouds, sporting dual-core 1GHz Ontario APU?

Remember AMD’s fusion platform APU “Brazos” which is based on AMD’s “Bobcat” architecture? It’s supposed to take down Intel’s almighty Atom platform, which currently reins supremacy over the netbook market, but thus far people have been able to compare it with Intel’s Core i5 Mobile platform instead.

Apparently Acer will be the first to have “Brazos” at home, in the form of the company’s 10-inch Aspire One 522 model. The netbook will be using AMD Fusion C-50 “Ontario” dual-core processor clocked at 1.00 GHz, with TDP of under 9W, and AMD Radeon HD 6250 graphics embedded. The x86-64 processor cores are based on the “Bobcat” architecture; feature the latest instruction sets, while the graphics core supports DirectX 11 and UVD 3.0 video acceleration.

The 10.1-inch screen features a native resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, which can be extended onto a HDTV or a monitor using HDMI. Most other features including connectivity are similar to existing Aspire One netbooks. The battery can provide 6 hours of usage on full charge. Acer is expected to unveil this powerful netbook in early 2011.











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