![]() ![]() Even better, the soft-to-the-touch covering extends to the bottom of the system to give the entire thing a cohesive look. As you can see in the images above, HP's toned down the design quite a bit, and while the lid still has a trippy "interlink" imprint, the black, rubbery coating hides it fairly well if it isn't your thing. ![]() It's not that we didn't like the look of HP's previous glossy white dm1z, we just happen to like the new version a lot better. For $450, it sounds like a true no-sacrifice system, but is it? Has AMD finally delivered an Intel Atom- / ULV-killer and has HP put it in a no-fuss chassis? We've spent the last week putting this system through the paces - hit the break to find out if it has been worth the wait! According to HP and AMD, the system should last for over nine hours on a charge, play full 1080p content, and perhaps more importantly, not fry our laps as some previous AMD Neo-powered systems have done. well, everything AMD has promised for so long. HP's newest 11.6-inch not-quite-a-netbook (or a notbook as we like to call it) is the first Fusion system to hit the market, and with a dual-core 1.6GHz E350 Zacate processor and AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU on the same chip it promises. So, what the heck does Fusion and AMD's history of promises about the platform have to do with HP's new Pavilion dm1z? Almost everything. It seemed almost too good to be true - AMD looked ready to stick to its timing and deliver the first Fusion Brazos platform by early 2011. Predator, support DirectX 11, and use a lot less power than its previous platforms. ![]() (Just a read through the Engadget archives from that period pretty much illustrates that we had lost hope and started to think the chips would never see the light of day.) But then in June of 2010 the unthinkable happened - AMD finally demoed its first Fusion Bobcat cores, and proved, at least from afar, that the soon-to-arrive ultrathin laptop solution would chew through Aliens vs. Now, don't get us wrong, those charts and graphs made us pretty giddy about the superior graphics and improved battery life that AMD was promising to bring to affordable ultraportables, but then a year later, when AMD still had only PowerPoint slides to show for itself, we started to think "Fusion" was no more than a drunken fantasy.Īnd it only got worse - from 2009 to mid-2010 the company continued to talk up its never-before-seen and highly-delayed chips. The company promised to have the silicon ready in two years' time, but when 2008 rolled around, it was clear that all it was prepared to release was a series of roadmap slides. Believe it or not, it was back in 2006 that the chipmaker first started talking about its "new class of x86 processors" and the idea of an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) - a chip that would combine a CPU and a fairly powerful ATI GPU onto the same die. It's crazy to think we've been writing about and waiting for AMD's Fusion platform for close to five years now. ![]()
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