Asus is planning the new Eee PC 1201T slim netbook, which is based on AMD’s Congo, the 2nd Generation Ultrathin Notebook Platform, instead of Intel’s Atom platform. The 1201T gets an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 1.6GHz processor, AMD RS780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics for 1080p Full HD capability. The new Eee PC has 2GB of DDR2 RAM and a 320GB hard drive. It features a 12.1-inch 1366×768 LCD display and supports WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1. Though the device offers 1080p performance, it lacks HDMI connector but only VGA. The Eee PC 1201T measures 296mm (W) x 208mm (D) x27.3-33.3mm (H) and weighs 1.46kg.

The Asus Eee PC 1201T has been announced in China, along with the 1201N and 1201HA. All of them run Windows 7.

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Here are the fist pictures of Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5800 series offerings: Radeon HD 5870 1GB and Radeon HD 5850. The cards sport the usual sticker design of a CGI girl in a reddish background. With these cards having the cosmetic “red-streak” cleaving the cooler shroud in the center, the so is the sticker. This is also perhaps the first public picture of the Radeon HD 5850, and our size projections were right: While the Radeon HD 5870 maintains a long PCB, the HD 5850 is about as long as a Radeon HD 4870 (reference design). Both accelerators stick to the reference AMD design.

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