Asus Announces AMD Geode-based Eee PC
Asus reveals that the 12-inch 1201K boasts AMD under the hood.
The EeePC is the netbook that started it all. Earliest models boasted an underclocked Intel Celeron M CPU, which eventually gave way to the Atom that seems to rule all ultra portable computers these days. But with ARM and AMD releasing competitive products, the Atom is no longer alone in the market and even Asus is branching out.
Engadget reports that the recently announced Asus EeePC 1201K will pack AMD's Geode NX 1750 processor along with a SiS 741GX/966L chipset. Other than the AMD's brains, everything else is pretty bog-standard for a netbook; with 1GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a .3-megapixel webcam, a built-in memory card reader, 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth2.1 + EDR, 2xUSB, VGA, a 12.1-inch display and Windows XP Home, there's nothing surprising here. Still, it's always nice to see a company other than Intel getting a look-in when it comes to the Eee line.

More importantly, does it have a matte screen or a mirror we men can use to shave with.
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?
Oh how wrong we pc men are Mr Apple God!
Here's an Eee netbook with a processor not Intel:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ls15lhnDPup9y6Uh&content=specifications
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/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220698