Gateway Turns to Atom for Their Second Netbook
Gateway Turns to Atom for Their Second Netbook
Posted 07/20/2009 at 3:56am
| by Paul Lilly
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Despite AMD's insistence that it has no interest in pursuing the netbook market, Gateway's first take on the segment resulted in the AMD Athlon Neo-based LT3100, an 11.6-inch netbook chugging along at 1.6GHz. This time around, Gateway takes the traditional route, building its newly introduced LT2000 netbook around the Intel Atom platform.
Sporting a smaller 10.1-inch LED-backlit LCD display, the LT2000 comes equipped with an Intel Atom N270 processor (1.6GHz, 533MHz frontside bus, 512KB L2 cache), 1GB of DDR2-533 memory, two 160GB hard drives, integrated Intel GMA950 graphics, WiFi, built-in webcam, three USB ports, a 3-cell battery, and Windows XP Home with SP3.
Other configurations will also be available in both black or 'Cherry Red.' As spec'd, Gateway lists an MSRP of $300.
Image Credit: Gateway via Engadget
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sk8nrck2
July 20, 2009 at 1:39pm
Sigh. It pains me to see AMD giving up on another aspect that they probably need to beat Intel.
I love AMD, but they make it quite hard to sometimes.
ez223
July 20, 2009 at 10:18pm
I love AMD also but if Gateway can put together a netbook like this with an Intel CPU, for $300, there's not really a good reason for AMD to focus any resources on this market. For what, so it can sell it for $295? AMD has almost always had an economic advantage over Intel. There just doesn't appear to be one in the netbook market. I think AMD's attention should be focused on getting their desktop CPUs to compete more with Core I7 instead of the Core 2 Duos and Core 2 Quads. Opteron server CPUs have less of a margin between them and Intel's Xeons but they still can't touch Nethalems.
EZ
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