HP ultraportable with AMD's new Neo CPU

HP introduces the Pavilion dv2, an ultraportable designed to fill the gap between notebooks and netbooks. The portable computer has a 12-inch screen and weighs approximately 1.7 kilograms. 

The device is based on AMD's new Neo platform (codenamed Yukon). The Athlon Neo MV-40 (codenamed Huron) processor is clocked at 1.66 GHz and has a TDP of 15W, which is comparable to Intel Core 2 Duo ULV models. The 65nm K8 single-core has only 512kB cache, while its Intel dualcore competitors have 6MB.

AMD reports that they have a dualcore Neo chip, codenamed Conesus planned for the second half of 2009. The matching Congo platform will feature the SB710 southbridge (Yukon utilizes SB600) and a better graphics chip.

The HP Pavilion dv2's visuals are powered by an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 with supported for 1080p HD video playback. The device also has a hard disk of up to 500 GB, WWAN, WiFi and Bluetooth. HP's new ultraportable supports up to 4 GB of ram.

HP's Pavilion dv2 is expected to become available around April, bearing a recommended price of between 500 and 700 euro.

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