Gold rush

We've been hearing about it for a while now and HEXUS brought you an exclusive insight into AMD's new ultrathin notebook platform last month, but now it's official: Yukon has been launched.

Yukon is based on the new Athlon Neo processor - a 65nm part with 1.6 GHz clock, 512 MB L2 cache and a power use of 15 W - and ATI Radeon x1250 integrated graphics with an option to upgrade to HD 3410 discrete graphics.

The platform makes its first appearance in the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC. This is a 12.1-inch screen notebook that's 0.93-inches (2.4cm) thick and weighs just under four pounds (~1.8kg).

The Macbook Air, by comparison, is a 13.3-inch display that's 0.76 inches (1.93cm) thick and weighs 3 pounds (1.36kg).

"Before today, there was a compromise associated with selecting a highly portable notebook, forcing consumers to choose either the full PC experience of an ultraportable at a high price or the limited PC experience of a mini notebook at a low price," said Chris Cloran, corporate VP of the client division at AMD.

We'll bring you more specs as we get them. HP has told us that the dv2 won't be available in Europe until 6th April and will cost around €600.

 

UPDATE - 10:00 7th Jan 2009: Here are some images we've just got from HP.

 

 

 

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