When will we see AMD Nile 12" Netbooks?

[maniac5999]

So, I have a friend who's looking to buy my Wind U230, and I'd prefer to have something with better battery life, but I still want to be able to play light games like WoW, and SC2. This eliminates Intel's Core2 CULV (Not enough graphics with 4500gma) and ION (Not enough CPU) So I think I'm stuck with an AMD platform. AFAIK nobody makes a 12" notebook with a discrete GPU (And don't bring up the Alienware M11, it's bigger than most 13" laptops) So i'm wondering if anyone knows of any laptops that suit my needs well enough for me to sell on my U230? ( I think Nile is just starting to hit stores now)

 

[hans007]

you can buy this today.

http://www.jr.com/toshiba/pe/TOS_T215DS1150/

Its the nile platform, dual core with a radeon 42xx or whatever. I've played SC2 on a desktop with the same igp at 1920x1080 and it was playable at low settings. should be fine at 1366x768 i think.

 

[Bateluer]

the aspire 1551 should be on sale soon. I think a few places alreayd have preorders.

basically dual core version of this:]

Looks nice, but whats with this nugget on the specs?

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

* Processor: 1.7hertz

 

[hans007]

Looks nice, but whats with this nugget on the specs?

erm i edited my post since i found one that was actually in stock from toshiba.


basically its an 880G chispet, with a dual core athlon II K325 which is 1.3 ghz with 2 x 1mb cache.

 

[maniac5999]

you can buy this today.

http://www.jr.com/toshiba/pe/TOS_T215DS1150/

Its the nile platform, dual core with a radeon 42xx or whatever. I've played SC2 on a desktop with the same igp at 1920x1080 and it was playable at low settings. should be fine at 1366x768 i think.

Tempting, but I think that it'd be going in the wrong direction performance-wise. the 4225 has the same number of cores as the 3200, but they're clocked at 380mhz instead of 500. Also, Notebookcheck shows the K325 as less powerful than the L335 (2233 vs. 2565 in Cinebench R10 multi.) The additional battery life is tempting, however. My friend pretty much has the same goals as I do (WoW, possibly SC2 and internet surfing) would you guys rate this as better than the U230, about the same, or worse?

Are there any other options out there? A 1.7ghz Turion II Neo x2 with something like a 4200 (or 4270 if somebody actually makes one) would be ideal. My U230 is very close to being able to push out 1080p video from a MKV, a little extra power would put me over the top.

 

[hans007]

there is supposed to be a K625 also, which is 1.5 ghz instead of 1.3ghz. So maybe you could wait for a 12" one with that instead.