News - Acer officially introduces AMD-powered Aspire One 522 netbook

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HD Netbook flaunts an AMD Fusion C-50 Ontario APU, heading to UK retail in Q2.

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Looks pretty good, been needing a replacement for my old aspire one for a while now. If it comes in at <£300 im sold!

"The DX11 GPU should make light work of outputting high-def media on the netbook's 10.1in 1,280x720 display"

Is it really a 1280x720 display, or is it a 720p display from which we may infer that its resolutions is in fact 1366x768?

Some c-50 tests put it close to the dual core N550 Atom in cpu synthetics (it's a mile ahead in graphics as you might have guessed). Remember though that in single core loads Brazos will handily beat atom due to it's OoO architecture.

http://translate.google.com/translat...hmarks&act=url

AMD also says the C-50 can loop 3dmark06 for 6 1/2 hours non stop, but I lost that link.

My FireFox bookmarks are becoming too big, but I had to save this page...

Crazytom, I agree with you about the price.

Jedibeeftrix, I hope this isn't that strange resolution, either! 1366 is 683 x 2, IE not a multiple of 16. Bit weird...

I think the reasoning goes:

• Not going below 768 "lines" is useful for older programs that need that resolution.
• 768 / 9 x 16 is 1365.3 (1dp), or 1366 rounded up.

Even so, why not just make it 1280 * 800 for a 16:10 ratio instead?

Whilst 16:9 films unfortunately get a few black lines, you do get that bit of extra scrolling height in your browser. I'd happily "sacrifice" the black bars for more FireFox. :)

(Same also goes for 24" monitors, manufacturers!!) :-|