14 DAY TRIAL // With AMD Brazos platform officially out and away it seems like we are in for a new round of netbook wars as more and more manufacturers release Fusion-based laptops, HP just making official the Pavilion dm1 that packs an AMD E-350 APU and promises up to 9 and a half hours of battery life.
Compared to last year's dm1, the hardware specs have been beefed up considerably, HP deciding to use a dual-core 1.6GHz Vision E-350 APU that is accompanied by 3GB of memory (upgradable to 8GB if you so desire) and a 320GB hard drive.
The E-350 APU is one of the first AMD Fusion chips released, meaning that it packs an on-die GPU together with two Bobcat processing cores.
In this case, the GPU is called the Radeon HD 6310M, is clocked at 500MHz and features 80 stream processors and AMD's UVD3 video decoding engine that is fully capable of supporting accelerated 1080p video content playback.
The rest of the hardware configuration sports a LED-backlit 1366x768 BrightView display, an SD card reader as well as 3 USB ports, HDMI and VGA out, and an Ethernet port.
But the best part about the dm1 is its battery life, as HP suggests that the 55WHr power pack is capable of delivering "up to 9 hours and 30 minutes" of running time, although the company doesn't state what type of usage scenario they base their claim on.
In addition, the Pavilion dm1 weights only 3.52 pounds (about 1.59 kilos) and is listed at a rather low $449.
Together with Lenovo's X120e, this is one of the first Brazos-based laptops to officially make its appearance, but we expect more such products to follow soon.
Most of them will be announced the following days, since CES 2011 is scheduled to open its gates in just a few hours time. (via engadget)