AMD-Powered Acer Aspire 721 Ultra-Thin Gets Listed

After a long time of offering nothing for the mobile market, Advanced Micro Devices was able to finally bring forth a complete platform refresh based on the VISION platform. Immediately afterwards, PC suppliers begun taking turns unveiling plans, or already existing devices, based on the new processors. Acer was one of the more outspoken, revealing not just a netbook (first of its kind), but also a number of mainstream notebooks. Now, the PC maker seems poised to raise the stakes by a notch with the Aspire One 721.

The Acer Aspire One 721 is a sort of cross-over between a netbook and an ultra-thin laptop, measuring 11.6 inches (instead of the standard 10.1 inches) but being powered by the Athlon II Neo K125 single-core central processing unit.

Specs aren't those of a netbook, of course. Not only does the chip itself function at 1.7GHz, but it is backed up by 2GB of RAM and a hard disk drive with 250GB of storage space. Even the screen has a significant resolution (1,366 x 768), and is supplied with the necessary level of video capabilities by the Radeon HD 4225 integrated graphics.

Other specifications of the mobile PC include an HDMI output, a multi-gesture touchpad, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and a 6-cell battery, which can keep the device running for up to 5.5 hours. Unfortunately, there is, as of yet, no information on the operating system (though Windows 7 is likely). In fact, all the information disclosed thus far is available only because Amazon listed the Aspire One 721 as available for pre-order.

Acer has yet to formally introduce this ultra-thin PC, but the machine at least has a fairly attractive price of $429.99 Euro. This means that the official announcement should occur soon enough, perhaps at Computex, at the start of June.