If you've been wishing for a laptop with netbook form factor but without the limp of Atom processors, the latest Acer Aspire 1551 might just be the one for you.
The Aspire 1551 is endowed with not Atoms, but AMD's Athlon II Neo processors, inside a petite form with an 11.6" LED-backlit display and crammed with up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11n WiFi, HDMI-out and a six-cell, five-hour battery. All this into a package that weight around 1.3Kg.
Two models will be made available. The pricier model (~US$550) will have a 1.5Ghz AMD Turion Neo K625 dual core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive, while the cheaper one (~US$480) will have a 1.3GHz AMD Athlon II Neo K325 CPU, 3GB of memory, and a 250GB hard drive.
