As we wrap up with ASUS’ IFA announcements for today, we shift from the tablet and smartphone sectors over to laptops. Launched back in May, Kabini is AMD’s alternative to Intel’s Atom; Temash is the lower power variant, with basically the same hardware but reduced clock speeds. Since May, we haven’t heard too much about Temash – there are a couple laptops out using the SoC/APU, like the HP TouchSmart 11 and Acer V5-122P, but that’s about it. ASUS is going to increase the number of Temash laptops in the wild by 50% (unless I missed some others?) with their upcoming X102BA ultraportable, otherwise known as a 10.1” touchscreen AMD netbook. This is definitely going to be a device for the budget minded, and while ASUS hasn’t released pricing information yet I suspect (hope) we’re looking at starting prices around $300, though the inclusion of Windows 8 and Office 2013 may push prices closer to $400+. In terms of the hardware, the X102BA comes with an A4-1200 APU, a dual-core Jaguar chip running at 1GHz with Radeon HD 8180 graphics. Neither one of those are going to set the performance world on fire, but the targeted power of the A4-1200 is 3.9W so battery life should be decent. ASUS rates the 33Wh battery at up to 5 hours of battery life with 720p HD video playback, and presumably it would do better under lighter loads like surfing the Internet or just typing. Read more here --> anandtech.com
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