Amazon Now Taking Pre-Orders For the Acer Aspire One 522 Netbook With AMD APU

Acer's latest AMD Ontario based netbook has just hit the online e-tailer known as Amazon. This netbook features a 10.1-inch display, AMD's new Zacate E-350 APU, Radeon HD 6250 graphics, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, a 4,400mAh battery which will reportedly last for 6 hours, an HDMI output, and Windows 7 Starter Edition. It's definitely one of the more powerful netbooks on paper, so you'll be able to put that HDMI output to good use if you ever need to. If you want to pre-order one right now for $329.99 then check it out on Amazon.

[Engadget]

Acer Aspire One 522 Netbook Leaks, Runs AMD "Ontario" CPU

A new Acer 10.1-inch notebook has just leaked. It'll be called the Aspire One 522 and it will reportedly feature an AMD C-50 "Ontario" APU which has dual 1GHz cores. Additionally, this notebook will also have Radeon 6250 graphics along with DirectX 11 support which is great. Other specs include a 1,280 x 720 resolution display, HDMI / VGA outputs, three USB ports, an integrated webcam, and a multicard reader. This one should be available soon and we'll likely see it officially revealed at CES 2011.

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