ASUS Also Preparing a Netbook, the AMD-Based Eee PC 1015T

Since Acer is going to soon start shipping a new netbook in Europe, it is not especially surprising to hear that ASUS will be doing something similar with its Eee PC 1015T, even if it is in the US and based on an AMD chip instead of Intel Atom.

As some end-users will no doubt know, the netbook segment, like most of the mobile market in fact, was dominated by Intel for quite a while.

Seeing how mobile PCs kept selling more and more, however, ADM decided to join in on the fun some months ago.

Unsurprisingly, the company offered, among other things, processors aimed at entry-level mobile PCs, netbooks as it were.

The AMD V105 is one of these chips and is the same that ASUS took and placed at the center of the Eee PC 1015T's configuration.

The chip has a clock speed of 1.2 GHz and is backed up by 1 GB of RAM, while the graphics side of things is handled by the Radeon HD 4200 integrated solution.

ASUS used a 10.1-inch liquid crystal display with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels in order to give said integrated graphics something to do.

There is, of course, also a hard disk drive, whose internal storage capacity is of 250 GB, as well as the obligatory I/O and connectivity options.

What this means is that the product comes with LAN, high-speed 802.11n WiFi wireless, a card reader and a 6-cell battery.

Needless to say, like most other netbooks, this machine is loaded with the Microsoft Windows 7 Starter operating system.

For now, pre-orders can be set through online stores in the US, which pair the device with a price tag of $349.

What remains to be seen is just how this product fares against Acer's Aspire One D225, which uses a dual-core Atom chip and sells for $399 (349 Euro in Europe).