The U.S. manufacturer Dell will use AMD’s new low-voltage CPUs. The Dell M301z is a 13.3 inch Sub-Notebook and is a completely new model with the AMD Nile platform. The customer has the choice between the two dual-core processors AMD Athlon II Neo K325 with 1.3 GHz AMD Turion II and Neo K625 with 1.5 Ghz.
The Dell M301z looks a lot like the ultra-thin notebooks from HP and some other manufacturers. Its got a great brushed metal finish which is great for covering up finger prints. Overall, the housing with a maximum height of only 24 millimeters thick. The weights is a mean 1.77 kilograms which is significantly higher than for a netbook, but then again the display is a lot larger.
Dell installed the AMD RS880M chipset in the M301z which has the AMD Radeon HD 4225 integrated graphics which is an integral part of “Nile”. The HD 4225 delivers your pictures to a glossy WLED display, which run 1366 x 768 screen resolution. Under the hood you can install up to four GB of DDR3 RAM and a 320-gigabyte hard drive that works min at 7200 rpm. The capacity of batteries are 44 watt-hours which should be enough for five hours of mobile computing.
The Dell M301z in now available in Singapore, but should appear shortly elsewhere in Dell’s online store. Price it starts at $ 999, for 100 dollars more get the device with the faster CPU.
Via NetbookNews.de
