HP's AMD Zacate laptop costs $ 500

HP Pavilion dm1z equipped with AMD Zacate chip, 3GB RAM, 320GB hard drive or up to 750GB upgrade.

HP began ordering one of the first laptops to use AMD Zacate for only $ 449. Pavilion dm1z has an 11.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels, an included 6 cell battery, standard Wi-Fi and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit operating system.

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HP Pavilion dm1z.

At the starting level, the device is equipped with an AMD E-350 dual-core processor with a speed of 1.6 GHz, a 3GB DDR3 RAM memory, a 320GB hard drive with a speed of 7,200 rpm.

In addition, the Pavilion dm1z has many options such as 4GB or 8GB of RAM, 750GB hard drive or 128GB SSD, Windows 7 Professional operating system. With the most advanced options, the price for this model can be up to 1,000 USD.

Zacate processor is based on Fusion architecture platform with the integration of both ATI CPU and ATI GPU on one base to increase performance. In some of AnandTech 's early tests, AMD's APAC Zacate was even more capable of handling Intel's Core i5 chips thanks to the integrated graphics chip.