2300 notebook series: Averatec.

2300 notebook series: Averatec. www.averatec.com Hardware, $849.99 to $949.99 This new line of 12-inch widescreen notebooks includes dual-core processing and Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Education. Incorporating AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Turion A version of the Athlon 64 CPU from AMD designed for thin, lightweight laptops. The Turion 64 CPUs dissipate as little as 25 watts compared to 65 for the Athlon. Introduced in 2005, Turion enhanced AMD's line of mobile CPUs, which included the Mobile Athlon 64 for full-sized laptops and 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology, it can handle complex 3D simulations, streaming media files, large database management, video editing and sophisticated user interfaces. Other features include 1GB of high speed DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory 2 memory, a 100GB high speed SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. hard drive, a dual layer DVD burner, built-in 802.11 b/g wireless networking and an integrated 4-in-1 media reader that supports SD, MS, MMC and MS Pro media formats for easy transfer of digital photos. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]