*Update* We discovered a hands on Video with the Acer 1551, which is virtually identical apart from the CPU. Please click here to have a look.*
Acer has in Cannes not only revealed the new Acer Aspire One 521 shown but also the Acer Aspire One 721 based on an AMD-based CPU. Instead of the AMD V105 here comes the AMD Athlon II Neo K325, which has two cores. These work at 1.3 GHz and a TDP of 12 watts. Acer combines the new CPU with the ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics solution for smooth playback of full HD video.
Just looking the model you should notice its the same chassis as the Acer Aspire 1830 notebook with a CULV processors. The biggest difference besides the processor is that the AMD model says YES to HD and the 11.6 inch display offers the usual 1366 × 768 screen resolution.
The ATI Radeon HD 4225 facilitates HDMI output to a TV or to suitably equipped displays. As usual, there’s three USB 2.0 ports, a webcam, a card reader, Bluetooth and of course, an Ethernet port. Optionally, as always, a 3G module. The keyboard and the touchpad is equivalent to what we already know from the Aspire 1830 and the previous timeline notebooks from Acer.
Acer Aspire One 721 comes with a 5600-mAh battery that should provide a decent battery life thanks to the “fuel economy” of the AMD Athlon II Neo K325 Dual-Core processor. The manufacturer has yet made any official statements about what kind of expectancy we should realistically be expecting, so still waiting on that. Accordingly, we can make no statement at runtime. The event in Cannes told us that we should expect “6-7 hours” but until there are more firm numbers we’ll hold of on accepting them. The product images tell us that we have a few color options with Silver, Black, Red, and “Coffee”.
Via NetbookNews.de
