New Acer Aspire One 522 boasts Ontario APU instead of Atom

When it comes to netbooks, pretty much the only real CPU solution in town was Intel�s low-voltage Atom, with any non-Atom netbooks generally being pretty dismissible affairs� which makes Acer�s new Aspire One 522 so interesting. Not only does it not use an Atom core, it uses the relatively new 1GHz AMD C-50 Ontario APU, a chip rated at just nine watts, which means this is a netbook that should be able to boast some really heroic battery life.

Otherwise, this is a fairly standard netbook, although it does boast a glossy 10.1-inch display capable of 720p HD video,
which is certainly a spot better than the usual 1024 x 600 panel. Rounding out the specs we have three USB ports, a VGA-out, a webcam, ethernet, HDMI out and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, as well as a 500GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM.

To be fair, we�re mostly interested by the Aspire One 522�s Ontario APU. Otherwise, we�re not really sure why anyone�s bothering with 10-inch netbooks anyway: the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air pretty much obviated the lot of them.

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