Asus Announces AMD Geode-based EeePC

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It's equivalent to Athlon XP 2600+. The CPU is significantly faster than Atom, but the SiS chipset sucks. I had this in my car computer and it ran Windows XP just fine, maybe a bit faster than an Atom system. However, my monitor had 800x480 resolution, so the dog-slow graphics chipset was not a big issue.
 
Ah, the Geode... long time since I've heard that... well, as long as it beats the Atom, which it does, then I'm happy. I'm always glad to hear AMD gaining market share where Intel previously ruled. Good for them. :)
 
Bog-standard? Is that a new term? I didn't know there was a type of bog that was considered standard. I'm still trying to imagine a deluxe bog.

More importantly, does it have a matte screen or a mirror we men can use to shave with.
 
When my wife got her Acer netbook last year, I was very underwhelmed with it's performance. I hope that AMD can gets some efficient performance that will work for a decent tablet. She just got an Ipad for her birthday, and I am just waiting until a decent PC tablet hits the market. The most important thing is battery life. I have been waiting, somewhat patiently for the Asus 121 tablet. I love my Asus G72, but I can't venture too far from a power outlet.
 
[citation][nom]rembo666[/nom]It's equivalent to Athlon XP 2600+. The CPU is significantly faster than Atom, but the SiS chipset sucks. I had this in my car computer and it ran Windows XP just fine, maybe a bit faster than an Atom system. However, my monitor had 800x480 resolution, so the dog-slow graphics chipset was not a big issue.[/citation]Actually seeing as how it has a clockspeed of 1.4Ghz and is built off the K7 architecture (even uses the 266 bus IIRC), it should really perform more like my old Athlon XP 1600+ machine.

The *real* benefit to the Geode NX and that SiS chipset is that they're DIRT CHEAP. Single core Atom (not ION) performance at a lower cost? If they price it right, it'll be OK for a netbook.
 
[citation][nom]AlexTheBlue[/nom]Actually seeing as how it has a clockspeed of 1.4Ghz and is built off the K7 architecture (even uses the 266 bus IIRC), it should really perform more like my old Athlon XP 1600+ machine.The *real* benefit to the Geode NX and that SiS chipset is that they're DIRT CHEAP. Single core Atom (not ION) performance at a lower cost? If they price it right, it'll be OK for a netbook.[/citation]

Yes, but the thing is a power hog, with low performance. It only gets 2 hours per charge according to Asus, so 1.5 hours in reality. It's pretty worthless. Slow, and very poor on power. Who'd want it?
 
I haven't tried AMD netbook before but I hope It preforms well - long battery life, cost less, satisfactorily web capable. . .This is what the consumer wants after all.
 
Another cheap ass low quality bad design pc none of these companies actually care about the design or tht the battery on these net books sticking out like tumor except apple .....pc are so low class
 
[citation][nom]rfstudio[/nom]Another cheap ass low quality bad design pc none of these companies actually care about the design or tht the battery on these net books sticking out like tumor except apple .....pc are so low class[/citation]

Oh how wrong we pc men are Mr Apple God!
 
Still, it's always nice to see a company other than Intel getting a look-in when it comes to the Eee line.
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Here's an Eee netbook with a processor not Intel:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ls15lhnDPup9y6Uh&content=specifications

It seems to be better endowed than the one in this article as well. It has an Athlon Neo (MV40) processor, a Radeon 3200 graphics chip (RS780MN chipset), and (most importantly) a screen resolution of 1366x768. The system is rated at 6 hours. I've used it for more than 4 hours light surfing and it still wasn't ready to quit. Outside of battery life, this system seems perfectly capable of matching Atom/ION based netbooks. It's been available at newegg for a while now:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220698
 
This should be interesting. Reading up about the Geode NX series, they're basically relabelled Athlon XP processors. The NX 1750 runs 1.4GHz/133FSB, has 128KB L1 and 256KB L2 cache, and a TDP of 25W. That's a very high TDP for a netbook. This thing will probably run very hot, as well as not very long on the battery. Hopefully the price is nice and low to reflect the old parts it's using.
 
My god WHY did they go with a Sis Chipset when they could have used an AMD Chipset...

Perhaps the Sis takes less power but still... I would take a Radeon4200 over battery life.
 
If a 12.1" screen makes a "netbook", than my old WinBook Si with it's 12" screen was a netbook. AND, it had a built-in CD-ROM drive too.
 
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