The AMD Fusion APU Ultraportable Line-up

I’m a little on the fence about labeling these laptops as netbooks but older models of the same form factor have been named as such. Only this time, they’re all powered by AMD Fusion APU and coming from various manufacturers such as HP, Lenovo, Asus and Acer.

I think there are many more in the line-up but these are the ones that immediately got my attention.

HP Pavilion DM1
11.6â€³ @ 1366Ã—768 display
AMD E-350 Dual-Core 1.6GHz
Radeon HD 6310 GPU
3GB RAM (8GB max)
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

Asus Eee PC 1215B
11.6â€³ @ 1366Ã—768 display
AMD E-350 Dual-Core 1.6GHz
Radeon HD 6310 GPU
2GB or 4GB RAM (8GB max)
250GB or 320GB HDD
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

Acer Aspire One 522
10.1″ display @ 1280×720 pixels
AMD C-50 1GHz Fusion processor
Radeon HD 6250 256MB
2GB RAM
160GB or 250GB HDD
Bluetooth 3.0
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

MSI U270
11.6″ display @ 1366×768
AMD E-350 Dual-Core 1.6GHz
Radeon HD 6310 GPU
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

Lenovo ThinkPad X120e
AMD E-350 Dual-Core 1.6GHz
Radeon HD 6310 GPU
4GB RAM
128GB SDD
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

The E-350 Dual-Core 1.6GHz has a power consumption of just 18watts (TDP) and that already includes the GPU. It’s a very close match to the ULV Core i3 with Intel HD.

Basic benchmarks like Windows Experience Index gives the CPU a 3.7 rating but the gaming graphics performance got a 5.6 rating which is pretty good already.

Abe Olandres

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45 Comments

dulfo says:

14 years ago

Here comes the fruit of the AMD-ATI Fusion. Seems like the marriage of the two is getting better and it’s also getting me excited. Hopefully, the price of the MSI U270 will be as affordable as the U230 that I currently have.
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lolipown says:

14 years ago

Now if only AMD could work on power management, they would be the perfect portable chipset.
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NemOry says:

14 years ago

yan pala ang AMD FUSION? ang sagad nila sa pag imbento ng APU na yan. .accelerated processing unit tama ba?hehe
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Willy Yu says:

14 years ago

meron na available in the market? can’t wait to get 1, less than 18k daw. better than a tablet
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Edward says:

14 years ago

Yung Acer 522 and 18k. yung emachines 644 ang 20k.

waiting for the price of HP ASUS MSI and Lenovo
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Edward says:

14 years ago

EDIT: “ang” not and
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Pusang Kulog says:

14 years ago

Isn’t Asus Eee 1215B supposed to be a 12″ incher model?
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Fleeb says:

14 years ago

@Nemory, Fusion was the reason why AMD bought ATi. People waited for this fruit for years now. Currently, the GPU and CPU are just on the same die.

Here is the roadmap AMD presented in 2007.

http://www.tgdaily.com/files/images/stories/article_images/amd/fusion_roadmap.jpg
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csseyah says:

14 years ago

Hazyt! lalo akong naguguluhan kung tablet o itong mga netbook spec na lang ang kukunin ko… kung pwede nga lang both bilhin bakit hindi :p hehehehee
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uberover says:

14 years ago

With AMD Fusion APU, there will be no more reason to call a small pc as a “netbook”. We shall call them now as “ultraportables”. These computers will mark the start of “ultraportable computing”. Hail AMD for creating such wonder!!!

@fleeb
You are totally right about what you said in AMD’s reason for buying ATI! This is the reason why AMD bought ATI…to build a processor that’s beyond imagination of Intel’s engineers; small, fast, and power efficient processor the AMD Fusion APU.
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