Over the past few years, Sony's been one of Intel's most faithful partners, the Japanese company choosing only “Chipzilla”'s CPUs for its various VAIO portable computing systems and forgetting all about the other major player in this market, AMD. However, it seems that, probably on account on the current economic woes, Sony's decided that a collaboration with AMD might be a good idea once again, and it's now offering two entry-level notebook models powered by the company's mobile CPUs.

Probably prompted by AMD's very successful VISION 2010 platform for mobile systems, Sony has decided to adopt some of the company's fresh CPUs, although it's chosen a couple of entry-level systems for its renewed partnership. So, as Electronista informs us, we're only talking about a couple of entry-level products, namely the EE25FX and EF22FX, which, from the looks of it, are only available at certain US online-only retailers.

Apparently, both of these systems feature Athlon II X2 P320 CPUs running at 2.10GHz with 1MB of L2 cache, but that's really the only thing they have in common. The first portable system mentioned above, the EE25FX, packs a 15.5-inch display with 1366x768 resolution and integrated ATI graphics, as well as 4GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, and a 3500mAh battery in the basic configuration. Pricing for this model ain't exaggerated either, since it starts somewhere at US$650.

The second product released by Sony, the EE22FX, comes equipped with a 17.3-inch display with 1600x900 resolution and the same integrated graphics components as the EE25FX, plus 4GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. Pricing for this thing starts at around US$720.

That's all fine and dandy, but we're really looking forward to seeing some more AMD-based products being rolled out by Sony, and in some of its higher-end ranges as well.


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