Acer's Aspire V5-122 notebook is one of the first laptops to ship with an AMD Temash low-power processor. Specifically, it features a 1 GHzAMD A6-1450 quad-core processor with a TDP of about 6 to 8 watts.
The notebook weighs about 3.3 pounds, has an 11.6 inch display, and it's expected to sell for around $450. That makes it a low cost alternative to an ultrabook.
While the laptop isn't yet available in the US, Chippy from Ultrabook News got his hands on a German model and ran a few performance tests.
Chippy reports that the laptop has 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and a 1366 x 768 pixel IPS display. It runs Windows 8 64-bit, and gets a Windows Experience Index score of 4.0.
He also ran a few benchmarks and concludes that the laptop offers about a third the CPU performance of an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor and about the same kind of graphics performance you'd expect from a Sandy Bridge chip.
Clearly, the key advantage to the AMD Temash processor isn't performance, but price. With a starting price of $450, the Acer Aspire V5-122 is a relatively inexpensive notebook that doesn't take up a lot of room, and which sells for about half the price of a top tier ultrabook.
It also has a few premium touches such as a backlit keyboard.
Still, at a time when ultrabook prices are getting lower and lower, it's not clear how large a market there will be for laptops like this which sit between netbooks and ultrabooks in terms of price and performance.
Acer Aspire V5 11.6 inch notebook with AMD Temash chip tested is a post from: Liliputing
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