The AMD Neo processor is not AMD’s answer to Intel’s Atom processor. Instead, the AMD Neo processor targets the market of lightweight & thin affordable ultra-portables users. This is a new niche altogether; between netbooks & pricey ultra-portables. Intel Atom & the Neo processor both targets different builds of portable computers hence are not directly in competition with each other. The expected price for an ultra portable with an AMD Neo processor; namely the HPDV2 will be not much higher than netbooks - well below $1000.
The HPDV2 Laptop weighs 3.8 pounds (a measly 1.7 kg). This budget 12 inch laptop ultra-portable is good looking & can be equipped with 4GB of RAM. The setback of this product could well be that the consumer receives a netbook level of performance (albeit the best) at budget laptop prices. No internal optical drive is available which is ridiculous & battery life is not impressive. This is a decent start for AMD’s ‘compromise free mobile computing’ but I’m not buying it.
The HPDV2 Laptop weighs 3.8 pounds (a measly 1.7 kg). This budget 12 inch laptop ultra-portable is good looking & can be equipped with 4GB of RAM. The setback of this product could well be that the consumer receives a netbook level of performance (albeit the best) at budget laptop prices. No internal optical drive is available which is ridiculous & battery life is not impressive. This is a decent start for AMD’s ‘compromise free mobile computing’ but I’m not buying it.
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