And we thought Intel has completely dominated the 10-inch netbook market with the Atom processor — it looks like Acer has gotten its hand on an AMD K125 CPU running at 1.7GHz on their new Aspire One AO521.
Acer Aspire One AO521
10.1″ display screen @ 1024×600 pixels
AMD K125 @ 1.7GHz 1MB Cache
AMD M880G Chipset
ATI Radeon HD 4225 Graphics 384MB RAM
1GB DDR3
250GB Hard Disk Drive
Card Reader
0.3MP webcam
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0
The netbook also comes with a 6-cell battery and Windows 7 Starter. The 12-watt CPU is a little higher than Intel’s ULV (10-watts) CPUs but way higher than Atom’s 2.5-watt rating. Add the Radeon HD 4225 and the couple could guzzle up the battery quite fast, possibly cutting into half usual battery life when compared to other Atom-based netbooks.
I’m curious with the performance of this one though (I imagine something similar to Lenovo’s ThinkPad X100e). With a suggested retail price of Php21,900, the Aspire One AO521 could be a strong alternative in the Atom-dominated netbook market.
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I always consider horsepower over anything else when choosing a mobile PC. I guess the AOD521 fits my bill. Screw the battery life–I want horsepower.
What RAM is compatible with this netbook? I want to upgrade my 1GB DDR3 to 2GB DDR3…
Just to kill the lame argument,, AMD did dominate the graphics industry the past year till now.
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5hrs batt life huh.. other reviews posted around 4hrs. Really bad for a 10-inch netbook, but playing HD videos is a must for me..
mga sir, tanung ko lang kung may user dito ng 521 na nakapag undervolt. i believe the only downside of the 521 against its rival atoms is battery life.
Acer AO521 ginagamit ko ngayon and I must say masmabilis siya kaysa sa mga kahanay niyang lumabas na intel. Battery life mga 5 1/2 hours on average use
(wi-fi on). I checked some reviews online and sa benchmarking nila, okay ang performance…
haiz, naghahanap ako ng info about this new acer puro paangasan lna pla mababasa ko tao nga naman ayaw patalo.
@Manong – wow, intelligent! Haha!
I’d love to get my hands on that Acer AO521. Coming from an Asus 1000HE, it would be a bit refreshing. Won’t you agree, Manong??
Di po ako taga makati, I just work there part time.
We all have different perspective, I’m agnostic in first place. And I get your point, its just how you interact by the ways of your text is the initiative of people’s perspective to your reaction. To me I find it assertive but in a way that its rude.
Your last question…I dunno but in my perspective , Makati is a jungle but easy to manage your way in. Its too simple to find pirated softwares among the thousands of companies in makati since its just centralized. I guess OMB wants to set example that even big companies can get caught. Well thanks to that softwares are now a regular sight in computer stores, some softwares are even 3 users in one purchase.