Asus Announces AMD Geode-based Eee PC

Geode?...I swore they discontinued that like 5 years ago..no?

What is the speed of the processor?

How powerful IS the processor? I've never heard of Geode.

It's equivalent to Athlon XP 2600+. The CPU is significantly faster than Atom, but the SiS chipset sucks. I had this in my car computer and it ran Windows XP just fine, maybe a bit faster than an Atom system. However, my monitor had 800x480 resolution, so the dog-slow graphics chipset was not a big issue.

Ah, the Geode... long time since I've heard that... well, as long as it beats the Atom, which it does, then I'm happy. I'm always glad to hear AMD gaining market share where Intel previously ruled. Good for them.

Branching out... except when it comes to offering alternatives to Windows on the OS. *sigh*

What no 780g?

The 1201N has ION Graphics. To me, that is enough to steak with the Intel model. Once Fusion comes online, I'll revise my opinion.

Bog-standard? Is that a new term? I didn't know there was a type of bog that was considered standard. I'm still trying to imagine a deluxe bog.

More importantly, does it have a matte screen or a mirror we men can use to shave with.

When my wife got her Acer netbook last year, I was very underwhelmed with it's performance. I hope that AMD can gets some efficient performance that will work for a decent tablet. She just got an Ipad for her birthday, and I am just waiting until a decent PC tablet hits the market. The most important thing is battery life. I have been waiting, somewhat patiently for the Asus 121 tablet. I love my Asus G72, but I can't venture too far from a power outlet.

Actually seeing as how it has a clockspeed of 1.4Ghz and is built off the K7 architecture (even uses the 266 bus IIRC), it should really perform more like my old Athlon XP 1600+ machine.

The *real* benefit to the Geode NX and that SiS chipset is that they're DIRT CHEAP. Single core Atom (not ION) performance at a lower cost? If they price it right, it'll be OK for a netbook.

Yes, but the thing is a power hog, with low performance. It only gets 2 hours per charge according to Asus, so 1.5 hours in reality. It's pretty worthless. Slow, and very poor on power. Who'd want it?

I haven't tried AMD netbook before but I hope It preforms well - long battery life, cost less, satisfactorily web capable. . .This is what the consumer wants after all.

AMD and SIS... ahh those were the days.

sis still making chipset ? why not using AMD own chipset ? wonder will there be ION for Geode ......

... ir it SiS, then XP...

Another cheap ass low quality bad design pc none of these companies actually care about the design or tht the battery on these net books sticking out like tumor except apple .....pc are so low class

Oh how wrong we pc men are Mr Apple God!

Not SiS again! I got a hard time using SiS 630/730 in late 90's

Here's an Eee netbook with a processor not Intel:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P [...] ifications

It seems to be better endowed than the one in this article as well. It has an Athlon Neo (MV40) processor, a Radeon 3200 graphics chip (RS780MN chipset), and (most importantly) a screen resolution of 1366x768. The system is rated at 6 hours. I've used it for more than 4 hours light surfing and it still wasn't ready to quit. Outside of battery life, this system seems perfectly capable of matching Atom/ION based netbooks. It's been available at newegg for a while now:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834220698

This should be interesting. Reading up about the Geode NX series, they're basically relabelled Athlon XP processors. The NX 1750 runs 1.4GHz/133FSB, has 128KB L1 and 256KB L2 cache, and a TDP of 25W. That's a very high TDP for a netbook. This thing will probably run very hot, as well as not very long on the battery. Hopefully the price is nice and low to reflect the old parts it's using.

My god WHY did they go with a Sis Chipset when they could have used an AMD Chipset...

Perhaps the Sis takes less power but still... I would take a Radeon4200 over battery life.

Geode 1750 = 14 watt processor = SUPER FAIL for netbook.

Most Atom netbook processors like the n270 use 2.5 watts and I think the most go up to 6 or 7 watts.

If a 12.1" screen makes a "netbook", than my old WinBook Si with it's 12" screen was a netbook. AND, it had a built-in CD-ROM drive too.

"But with ARM and AMD releasing competitive products, the Atom is no longer alone in the market and even Asus is branching out."

Geode isnt ARM, Is x86.

I do the same for one restaurant in Mexico but is for palm 4 (like 7 years ago), the palm display the menu and you can order directly from the palm, the restaurant have 30 palms (sony clie) with wifi and send automatic to the kitchen and cashier the orders.

Read your own quote. He said with "arm and amd releasing comptetitive products". If you still can't understand, arm is releasing a competitive product also.

Hmmmm that Geode NX would be equivalent to an Athlon XP 1800+ I think, had a 2100+ for along time thats base clock was 1544 on the same bus speed. But yeah, why on earth go with the sis chipset, at the very least they could of used Nvidia or their own. And at 130nm die process node, just imagine the power savings if they ramped these things down to 60nm or the current 45nm node, not to mention if they did that they could probably ramp up the clock quite a bit...

Atom N2XX 2.5W + 945GC 22W

Atom N2XX 2.5W + 945GC 22W = SUPER FAIL

I like AMD but this is really a vintage netbook This tech level notebook you get used very-very cheap, and if you take desktops, then almost for free.