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This device comes to market with many promises. First, it is a technology that AMD played all its chips in five years of losses. Second does not bring an unknown manufacturer, it will use Bhutan the largest assembly company in world. Third, its new team promises to be wonderful.

Lets split into parts. "9 hours of battery life? Yes and no. Watching videos, browsing with Wifi and playing some SC2, it lasted less than that. More like 6 hours and fraction. Still really awesome and is the first AMD product to show a comparable consumption to the Atom. That makes me think that a mono-core Fusion platform, with less frequency and lower voltage can be a lifesaver for the X86 tablets, but that's going to another topic.

Now, we should crucify them since it only lasts 6 hours and not 9. Not really, because those 9 hours, the test measured are with no wireless and no activity, in which case maybe it is true. I surfed for hours with Wi-Fi, watching videos and all. The battery charge decreased linearly to 10% per hour, but to approaching 10% I could not navigate. In reality if you can browse with QuickWeb, 9 hours or more should be possible.

The screen quality is another point to consider. For many glossy screens are a resounding NO. Before, I thought the same, but HP LED screens is not the first time that I am amazed by the life of their colors. They have, however, a problem with the angles. A viewer located outside of the 45% perpendicular cone to the screen, will see the degraded colors ... but the effect is more noticeable vertical than horizontal.

Continuing. Graphic section, the notebook is not the monsters gamer level of Alienware and Asus, but we are talking about another price. The fact is that mainly because of its compatibility with DX11 and good management of SM3, this notebook can play much more fluidly than any other model with integrated video we've tested. It is difficult to test this, but we can say that it is impossible to play Stalker: Call of Pirypat in 1366 x 768 so we did not include this test. Instead, we were able to play SC2 with low quality textures. With that earned my eternal love.

In other respects, sound, weight, temperature, noise, has a satisfactory performance. Maybe I would prefer a louder fan to change when it gets warmer, but that goes for everyone. AMD maintained its its head up and its motto: "The Future is Fusion."

It was true. The product is everything they promised it would be and more. It is an economical (it integrates 3 functions in one package) of low power consumption yet high computing power and outstanding graphics performance. AMD has a winner here in paper may look like the Atom Pine Trail (CPU, NB IGP and in the same package), but it works very differently. This AMD product really deserves to be called different because it works differently. The APU works better than a CPU and seperate IGP.

Its performance on tests that rely on intensive use of CPU show a slight disadvantage compared to the Turion II currently in the Pavilion dm1-2000, but we think that processors are different segments. The APU E305 has a consumption that makes it comparable to the Atom and computing power comparable to a Pentium Neo CULV or dual-core Athlon. At this point there is no product that can offer the same combination of power and consumption.

Technical Details

• AMD Dual-Core FUSION Processor E-350 (1.6GHz, 1MB L2 Cache) + AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6310M Discrete-Class Graphics
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 6-cell battery
• 3GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB 7200RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• 11.6" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366x768)
• Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone, 802.11b/g/n WLAN, Bluetooth

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