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The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e and Asus Eee PC 1201T both have 1.6GHz AMD Neo MV-40 processor and ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics processors. So you’d think they’d perform pretty much the same on most benchmarks. But it’s not just the CPU and GPU that determines a computer’s performance, as the folks at YugaTech recently discovered.

For instance, the two computers have different memory clock speeds and different hard drives. And while they both have ATI Radeon HD3200 grpahics processors, the Eee PC 1201T has 256MB of video memory while the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e has 336MB of video memory.

And those differences seem to have affected each computer’s score in the PassMark benchmark, with the Eee PC 1201T coming out ahead in the 3D and 2D graphics benchmarks and the memory test, but straggling behind in the hard disk test.

For more details, check out YugaTech’s breakdown.

A few weeks ago Toshiba introduced a new version of its T115 thin and light 11.6 inch laptop. The new version is available with an AMD Neo processor and ATI Radeon 3200 graphics, while the earlier versions shipped with Intel CULV processors and graphics. Notebook Review forum member Aerows is one of the first people to receive a new Toshiba T115D and she’s posted some initial impressions.

Unfortunately, she had meant to get the dual core version and accidentally wound up with a single core model. But here’s what we know so far:

• The battery on the single core version is good for about 3.5 hours of moderate use (watching a movie, installing applications)
• The laptop gets a little warm, but the fan isn’t loud
• Some of keys (Tab, Alt, Win, and Fn) are smaller than you’d expect

Aerows plans to return the laptop and get the dual core version. If you’re interested in this laptop, you might want to keep following the thread to see how that model compares with the single core version.

via Netbooked