It looks like laptops really are starting to get launched again, even those that don't use Intel's infamous Sandy Bridge CPUs, like MSI's X370, which is powered by the AMD Fusion Brazos platform and boasts the E-350 APU.
Advanced Micro Devices, back at the start of the year, finally made a strong case for itself on the laptop market by unleashing its first Fusion APUs.
Accelerated Processing Units, essentially are x86 processors with built-in Radeon HD 6000 graphics, meaning that they have DirectX 11 support.
Granted, this isn't all that relevant in absence of gaming-ready prowess, but graphics performance is still well above what Intel competing chips can do.
Sandy Bridge units have their own HD graphics, but they don't get in netbooks and ultrathin laptops, that being the territory of the Atom line.
Basically, AMD has succeeded in scoring some design wins, one of which was just revealed by Micro-Star International.
Going by the name of
X370, it uses the Brazos platform, in this case the dual-core 1.6 GHz E-350 APU (accelerated processing unit). It is the second such machine from the company (the first one is
this one).
The GPU inside it is the Radeon HD 6310, while 4 GB of RAM (random access memory) see to it that the chip has sufficient resources for anything the machine may be tasked with.
Additionally, the 13.4-inch display has a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels (HD) and uses LED backlights, for energy efficiency.
Other specifications include a HDD of 320 GB, 500 GB or 640 GB, a SD/MMC card reader, 1W speakers (two), HDMI, D-Sub, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and a 4-cell or 8-cell battery.
Finally, all the hardware is packed inside a frame with a thickness of just 22.8 mm and can keep running for up to 10 hours on just one battery charge. Unfortunately, while sales should start in a few weeks, no pricing details were given.
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