HP 3105m Dual-Core AMD Fusion Laptop Officially Unleashed

Some might have thought there weren't enough AMD-powered notebooks on sale these days, and HP seems determined to increase their number, having unleashed a new machine not too long ago.

AMD unleashed its Fusion APU platform back in early January and, since then, several notebooks and other systems have adopted it.

Granted, the consumer IT market is still very much dominated by Intel, but Advanced Micro Devices is steadily gaining ground.

HP was the first company to actually start selling a Fusion laptop, that machine being called Pavilion dmz1. This was probably the reason Fusion mobile processors even kicked off so well, albeit not strongly enough to cause concerns in Intel's camp.

Turns out that the notebook was actually quite popular, enough so that HP decided to unleash a sort of successor for it.

Said newcomer is dubbed 3105m and was listed on its maker's official website a short time ago (said listing can be found via this link).

The accelerated processing unit at the heart of the machine is the dual-core Zacate E-350, whose clock speed is of 1.6 GHz and which comes with the built-in Radeon HD 6310 graphics.

Said chip is backed up by up to 4 GB of RAM (2 GB in base configuration) and up to 320 GB of HDD storage.

These, along with all the expected connectivity and I/O options, are crammed inside a frame of 11.6 inches in diagonal.

All in all, the newcomer should be able to last for up to nine hours on a single battery charge, meaning that prospective buyers won't have to worry about it not lasting through a long plane flight or train ride.

According to the listing above, the starting price of the HP 3105m notebook PC is $449, about as much as what netbooks used to sell for before tablets forced their prices to under $200.