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Read more.This 10.1-inch netbook is expected to ship including an Office 2013 licence.
The price for this must be low for people to be interested.
Why a 1 GHz processor, with the level of ram I would have hoped to see a slightly better processor, I fear that for modern everyday tasks that this processor may fall short.
I hate to say it, but in this scenario I would buy intel not AMD and be up about £150
The price does seem too high. But that TDP of 3.9w? It almost doesn't need a fan. The saving grace of this laptop may be battery life and hopefully low price when it actually shows up.
Nice to see netbooks not dead. But. Needs to be £250, have a SSD drive (even a small one) and forget the bundled Office. Oh, and ideally fanless and no stupid shiny gloss screen.
awesome machine for the needs of 99% of your average facebook candy crush `gamer`. better than the tat intel put out for the money
We'll see, performance for the CPU part is expected to slot in just above atoms, but below current offerings such as the E-350 (though they do draw 18W so fair enough). They're also expected to be maybe a little over half the performance of a Celeron 867 from the Intel version, but again power draw is high for those chips. I don't know about you but on my old dual core atoms I struggled to play flash games at full speed. As for the GPU, it's somewhere on par with Intel HD 3000 graphics apparently so I get the feeling these chips will be limited to light web browsing duty, not even facebook games though.Originally Posted by HalloweenJack
At least they have battery life going for them... or would, but the battery capacity is pretty low especially considering way back when you could get 6 cell batteries for your netbooks whereas this at most has equal capacity to 3 cell batteries.
This I guess appeals to a weird market segment, it's not got a long battery life (hence imo portability isn't in its favour), it's not got much performance, but it will run MS Office which an android tablet at the same price won't. If those are your needs, might wanna look at using libre office and spending the extra money on a better device.
They could easily make it fanless, the fanless Temash Tablet shown at CES was based on this 3.9W APU, I've been hoping to see them go commercial, This netbook though, I wouldn't touch, it clearly uses a fan by the looks of the side of the chassis which reminds me of this Toshiba Netbook with an Atom CPU I bought, and thanks to the inept cooling design it manged to get hot and noisy, my guess is just as much work went into designing a 3.9W APU's cooler. Honestly Asus could use this APU along with the aluminum chassis as they use for their 13-14" Vivobooks, make it fanless, and get the battery time up to 10+ hours. Sure it wouldn't be super powerful, but as a laptop for taking notes and browsing, it would be pretty much perfect.
Alas being fan-less may not be an option as it may require good airflow over other components, such as the mechanical hard drive and around the RAM, especially with it being such a compact design the last thing you want if for something trivial to suffer thermal damage...
I presume the Temash apu is pin compatible with Kabini, in which case the chassis will have a cooling system common to both.
And I will wait for a price drop, and a Kabini version to come out. My old E350 netbook is years old now, and still faster and cheaper than this.
When I said I wanted an AMD APU I actually wanted one that could play some PC games, this is not capable of playing any game at a playable frame rate
There's no real airflow in my Asus Vivobook U38N where the memory and HDD is, and it supports significantly faster memory than Temash, as well as uses a faster Sata interface, afaik Temash has been limited to Sata II to save power. The device I suggest would have the functionality of a netbook, but with nice build quality, as well as offering an entire day of note taking.
E350 might be a bit quicker on the CPU but will be slower on the GPU. In fact, these low end temash APUs are a bit of a conundrum, as the 128 shader GCN part - even at very low clock speeds - is still quite an oomphy GPU, whereas the 1GHz dual core Jaguar is pretty performance-light. Be interesting to see a proper review of one though.
I suspect that if you whap an SSD in it this is actually quite a responsive little machine. $500 would be way over value for it though: Acer do a touchscreen 11.6" Temash (A4-1250; identical except for GPU clockspeed) laptop for about that price (£349 @ PC World)...
I was playing around in PC World with an HP sub-notebook with an A4-1450 which cost around £350. It was quite nippy indeed and no problems with 1080P YouTube playback. There was also an HP A4-5000M based laptop for a similar price in the same shop.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 19-08-2013 at 10:16 PM.
The quad core ones seem quite reasonable to me - it's the dual core that don't make a lot of sense at > £250. There's a decent range of options out there otherwise.
Personally I just wish I had the £800 spare for the ASUS U38N-C4010H
This is the sub-notebook:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/Laptops-PC...ons_16746.html
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