A mini-sub Gateway laptop AMD platform

Returning recently to the European market, the manufacturer Gateway announced today, across the Atlantic, a mini-notebook that has the particularity to be based on an AMD platform. The Gateway actually LT3100 has a processor low L110 AMD Athlon 64 clocked at 1.2 GHz and equipped with 512 KB of cache, AMD chipset RS690E and a graphics chip ATI Radeon X1270.

These components are supported by 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and a comfortable drive of 250 GB can be found in addition to the usual connectors, including 3 USB ports, VGA output, a memory card reader and WiFi G. 3G modem and digital video output, though increasingly common on this type of machine, by their absence.

The machine is built around a WXGA screen (1366 × 768 pixels) 11.6-inch backlit LED, topped with a webcam VGA (300 000 points), and measuring 286 × 203 × 26.4 mm to 1.78 kg with 6 cell battery.

The LT3100 Gateway will soon be available in the United States for about $ 400. It is not yet due on the old continent, but could land under the brand Packard Bell, another subsidiary of Acer.