By jumping ship to AMD Fusion guts for their Pavilion dm1 laptop, HP is in the vanguard of manufacturers turning out netbook-sized PCs with full notebook performance. That means 1080p video and DirectX 11 graphics on an 11.6-inch machine.
AMD has been trying to crack their Fusion technology – combining a CPU and a powerful GPU in the same chip – for years now. Today, they showed off working Fusion chips in a demo that got Intel and Nvidia’s attention:
