14 DAY TRIAL // While CES 2011 approaches at light speed, we're starting to see more and more interesting products that will be officially unveiled on that occasion make their way online via the usual leaks, the latest we've come across being an Acer Aspire One 522 portable computing system that's powered by AMD's Fusion Brazos platform.
According to macles, who's also providing some very interesting photos of this future product, differentiating the AMD Brazos – based Aspire one from its predecessors might be a pretty difficult task, since the only major difference seems to be the textured touchpad (the color combination is also a new one, but not particularly impressive, if you ask us).
However, what really sets the Acer machine apart from all of its other counterparts can actually be found within the portable computing system, since the new Acer Aspire One 522 is built around an AMD C-50 "Ontario" APU, with two cores, clocked at 1GHz each, and a total TDP of 9W.
As expected, the APU solution also sports Radeon 6250 graphics, with support DX11 as well as UVD3 for accelerated video decoding.
What's really curious, though, is that, despite of the fact that the APU supports HD playback, Acer has decided to go for a 10.1 inch panel with 1280x720 screen resolution, which is not exactly fantastic, according to today's standards (however, a HDMI port will let you play HD content on a HDTV, if you really want to).
Another disappointment seems to be the battery, rated at just 6 hours of non-stop functioning, a lot less than we'd normally expect from a Brazos-based machine.
Naturally, talking about pricing and availability is a bit early, but we're pretty sure that we'll find out more on these topics once the new Brazos-based Acer Aspire One makes its official debut, probably during CES 2011.
