AMD has yet to announce their latest series of low-end Fusion Brazos fusion chips, namely the Ontario based C-60 for netbooks and the Zacate E-450 for devices a little more powerful. Despite that, they are already on sale in the 11.6-inch Dell Inspiron M102z in various countries, excluding the US. One of the next laptops to get the E-450, along with its Radeon HD 6320 graphics, will be the Asus Eee PC 1215B, which currently sports both of the aforementioned chips – the lower end model costs $350 while the higher end model goes for $450. This is all according to a spec update on the official Eee PC 1215b product page.
While there are lower end C-50 and (single-core) C-30 models available for the 1215B, there’s no update to the C-60, if the specs are the correct.
The AMD E-450 won’t have much of a CPU performance improvement over the current E-350, since it’s only clocked 0.05GHz higher, at 1.65GHz but on the graphics side, updated to Radeon HD 6320, will get some kind of turbo boost feature that’ll allow the GPU to be clocked up to 600MHz. It’s not clear if the CPU side has this Turbo Boost feature like the C-60 does, at least from the way I’ve been reading into this.
Given this news, I’d expect the 1215B and the 10-inch 1015B to get the AMD C-60 update as well, but product pages for both don’t mention it.
Source: Liliputing
