Gateway EC13N01i w/ dual core Athlon II Neo

We’re starting to see more netbooks running the newer AMD Athlon II Neo processors that can be considered in the ULV category. The Gateway EC13N01i is one of them, sporting a dual-core 1.3GHz CPU and a healthy 2MB cache.

Gateway EC13N01i
11.6″ display @ 1366×768 pixel resolution
AMD Athlon II Neo dual-core K325 @ 1.3GHz
2GB DDR3
ATI Radeon HD 4225 w/ 384MB VRAM
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Gigabit LAN
Bluetooth 3.0+HS
5-in-1 card reader
3 x USB 2.0 ports
HDMI port
Windows 7 Home Basic

The K325 has the same TDP (12 watts) as the K125 of the Aspire One 721 I reviewed earlier. I’m expecting the K325 to perform better while consuming the same amount of juice. Good thing Gateway put a 6-cell 5800mAh battery in it.

The unit is selling for Php27,900 in stores. It will be interesting to pit this against the Acer Timeline 1810tz running a dual-core Pentium 1.3GHz processor.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

20 Comments

dickson says:

12 years ago

can you send me the link where i can download gateway EC13N01i drivers..for windows 7 ultimate 32bit please
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HCG diet says:

13 years ago

Thanks for this great information! I really appreciate this. I actually let my husband have a look and he posted a link to it on his blog :)
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Arnold says:

13 years ago

AMD Phenom II x4,x6 na ngaun at un bagO na up and coming na pinagmamalaki ng AMD na Bulldozer processor is coming very soon!!!
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carlo says:

14 years ago

Pwede ba at kaya ba ang adobe creative suite collection sa GatewayÂ® EC13N01i?
please answer ASAP. :)
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Ian says:

14 years ago

yup, I have the CS3 one. I mainly use Photoshop and InDesign. Both works just fine :)

whel says:

14 years ago

[quote]http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/gateway-ec19c10i-11-inch-core-i5-notebook/

Thereâ€™s an Acer TimelineX equivalent of this one but itâ€™s not yet available in the Philippines (had to order one from Amazon)./[quote]

I’ve read from the above link that you’re ordering from Amazon; i’m interested to buy EC13N01i with TURION X2 version; based from your experience, may i know the tariff (in percent) that the BOC is charging for LAPTOP computers…

thanks…
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Ian says:

14 years ago

I saw one in Acer at SM North EDSA Annex. It’s really thin and light, and the keys are similar to those of Acer Timeline 1810TZ.

How long does the 6-cell 5800mAh battery last?
And which is still better overall: Gateway EC13N01i or Acer 1810TZ?
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Kheyan Alferez says:

14 years ago

oh I’m sorry, your correct, Yes it is not 2.6ghz overall. But the good thing is that it’s dual core and every core has 1.3Ghz which means that if you are running multiple application the 2 core can help each other by dividing the application in to 2. one for the other core and one for the main core.
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fafi says:

14 years ago

^err, 1.3Ghz dual core doesn’t mean it is 2.6Ghz overall.
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kheyan alferez says:

14 years ago

well i prefer the gateway EC13N01i because it has a powerful processor which is the AMD Athlon II Neo dual-core K325 @ 1.3GHz and besides it is dual core so the processor speed is 2.6Ghz than the asus 1201N or Acer Aspire One 721 who has a intel atom a very weak processor but energy efficient and the best thing about gateway EC13N01i is the grapic processor which is the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4225 graphics with 384MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD2), OpenGLÂ® 2.0, OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 4.1, MicrosoftÂ® DirectXÂ® 10.1 than the grapic processor of the asus and acer which is intel also,.so for me the best device is the
gateway EC13N01i
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malu c. says:

14 years ago

the specs of Acer AO721 is a single core with 250GB hard disk space and Gateway EC13N01i is dual core with 350GB hard disk space and the rest of the specs are all the same , my question is which of the two has the best performance?
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Noir says:

14 years ago

Ser do you have news on any other netbooks running on AMD Nile.

AFAIK Acer-Gateway are the only ones available right now.

Any news on HP and Toshiba???
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bokoi says:

14 years ago

@Nong

basa ulit…
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Nong says:

14 years ago

@ sir abe

bakit po may neo? d po ba competitor ng gateway ang neo?
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^_^ says:

14 years ago

ASUS UL20 parin, haha
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Jaq says:

14 years ago

sir yuga, i have 2 questions: which is a better choice in terms of specs: asus 1201N or Acer Aspire One 721?

And i don’t have any idea about computer processors and stuffs, we have Intel Pentium 4 1.7 ghz in our desktop, and when i play Cafe world here in FB, it lags (i don’t know if it’s the main reason why it lags), i would like to have an idea if the processors and graphics,game/video cards in the 2 ntbks. i’ve mentioned. above are good enough to play pc games?

Pls. reply, thanks so much!
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Jaq says:

14 years ago

sir yuga, i have 2 questions: which is a better choice in terms of specs: asus 1201N or Acer Aspire One 721?

And i don’t have any idea about computer processors, we have Intel Pentium 4 1.7 ghz in our desktop, and when i play Cafe world here in FB, it lags, i would like to have an idea if the processors in the 2 ntbks. i’ve mentioned. above are way better than this?

Pls. reply, thanks so much
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