In terms of performance, we could find no fault with the system. AMD's newer Congo platform does deliver much better performance compared to the older Yukon platform, while handily beating the Intel Atom yet again. While it still loses out to Intel's CULV processor based platform, it's still a pretty decent effort on AMD's part. Battery life wise, the Acer Ferrari One managed to secure a respectable uptime of 175 minutes, though power consumption at (much higher than either of Intel's solutions) remained somewhat of a weakness of the platform.

AMD believes that ultra thin notebooks to some extent cover the netbook category, but perhaps only a portion of it. The company thinks that the netbook comprises a small segment of the market and is basically used for web browsing and emails.

We already know the specs of the machine with an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU running at 1.6GHz, a maximum of 4GB of RAM, 160GB of storage and the little netbook runs Windows 7. I also like that whatever you have opened on the second screen goes back to the primary screen when the secondary display is put away. One big aspect of the machine we are still unsure about is battery life; it has to be impacted by the second LCD. The machine is expected to debut in 2010 at a price said to be under 100,000 yen ($AUD1231). Hit this link to see the video on YouTube.

• The Latest AMD Athlon™ Neo X2 Dual-Core Processor for Ultrathin Notebooks • Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
• 12.1” 16:9 LED Backlit Widescreen Display
• 1366*768 HD Ready Display for clearer and sharper images
• 1.3kg ultra lightweight and ultraportable design
• 4 hrs battery life
• HDMI Output
• Brand new msi Ergonomic De-stress Keyboard

Tigris will use a range of Turion, Athlon, and Sempron processors that sit on an RS880M chipset. The IGP contains the Mobility Radeon HD 4200-series graphics. The GPU portion is a minor improvement over incumbent Mobility Radeon HD 3200, as it now includes support for DX10.1 and UVD2. Basic performance should be similar to the MHD 3200, though, as both IGPs have 40 stream processors clocked in at 500MHz.