14 DAY TRIAL // There are few notebook design elements that really stand out on today's market, but it looks like Acer used one of them to enhance a certain laptop concept it has been toying with, based on the Fusion architecture from Advanced Micro Devices.
Ultraportable laptops have always been a bit less popular than netbooks and full-fledged laptops.
The main reason for this is that they are a bit expensive while featuring hardware specifications not much higher, if at all, than those of low-end mobile personal computers.
On the flip side, they are easy to carry around and, provided they have the necessary design elements, can be seen as fashion accessories of sorts.
As such, in order to make them more appealing, it makes sense that PC makers would build upon this fashionableness.
The latest product to receive this sort of treatment, at least as far as Acer is concerned, is one Acer Aspire One 722.
The fashion element is visible right off the bat, that being a very specific design on the molded plastic lid (it is made to look like ripples caused by a water droplet).
Of course, fashion enhancements would be wasted on just any machine, so Acer made sure to give it reasonable performance as well.
The center piece is the AMD Fusion C-50 Ontario APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) which has a clock speed of 1 GHz and the Radeon HD 6250 Integrated Graphics.
The display is an 11.6-inch HD panel (the resolution is of 1,366 x 768 pixels) while audio is provided by two speakers. HDMI, Ethernet and all other expected connectivity and I/O capabilities are present.
The machine should be able to run for up to seven hours on a single battery charge and has multiple hardware configuration options, though its price has not been disclosed, nor had its availability date.