href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/acerlogo.jpg"> class="alignright size-full wp-image-2529" title="acer logo" src="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/acerlogo.jpg" alt="acer logo" width="245" height="67" />Acer Inc. has begun shipping new AMD Llano powered laptops in Europe and some in the United States. The new models include the 15.6-inch Acer Aspire 5560 and the 17.3-inch Acer Aspire 7560. href="http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/hardware/40922/acer-launches-aspire-5560-and-7560-llano-powered-laptops" target="_blank">Reports from overseas indicate that Acer is actively shipping 5560 and 7560 models to Europe, but the 5560 appears to be the only one of the two that’s being shipped to the United States at this time. Acer has reported started pricing at 499 Euros in for both the 5560 and 7560, and in the US the MSRP starts at 9 USD for the 5560 according to Acer’s own website.

If you’re in the United States href="http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHJX_enUS418US418&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Aspire+5560#q=Aspire+5560&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHJX_enUS418US418&tbm=shop&source=lnt&tbs=cat:328&sa=X&ei=I7WDTruiKKL30gHM4cClAQ&ved=0CB8QpwU4Cg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=15a5cc0d465e2d71&biw=1304&bih=707" target="_blank">you can order one of two versions of the 5560 online at the moment, the Black AS5560-Sb609 and the Red AS5560-Sb835. Each of those models has the same specifications which include a 1.4GHz AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M APU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB 5400RPM hard drive, USB 3.0, a 15.6-inch 1366-by-768 HD LED back-lit LCD, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit mainly.

href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/AMD-A-Series-APU-equation-graphic.jpg"> class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8604" title="AMD A-Series APU equation graphic" src="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/AMD-A-Series-APU-equation-graphic.jpg" alt="AMD A-Series APU equation graphic" width="550" height="225" />These two notebooks are unlike most Acer sells at the moment because they feature AMD’s new Llano mobile APUs. The Llano family of AMD APUs or Accelerated Processing Units  are the latest in the AMD Fusion effort. The Llano APUs are broken down into the A-Series and come in dual-core A4 and quad-core A6/A8, and the Acer laptops just launched feature dual-core and quad-core options across the range.

By definition an APU is the combination of a CPU and a discrete-class DirectX 11 integrated GPU in one single chip. For the APUs inside the Acer offerings customers will have the option of getting a laptop that has just AMD Radeon HD integrated graphics or they can have AMD integrated and AMD Radeon HD dedicated graphics too. The match-up of integrated and discrete does cost more, such as the 9.99 (MSRP) Acer Aspire AS5560G-SB485 that comes with an integrated AMD Radeon HD 6620G and an AMD Radeon HD 6470M discrete GPU.

Below you can check out the main specifications for the Acer Aspire 7560 and beneath that are the four variants of the Acer Aspire 5560 that Acer has listed on their US website:

• AMD A4/A6/A8 dual-core and quad-core APUs
• 17.3-inch 1600 x 900 HD LED back-lit display
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• FineTip keyboard
• up to 8GB of RAM
• up to a 750GB hard drive
• DVD/CD SuperMulti or Blu-ray player optical drives
• 5-in-1 card reader
• 1.3-megapixel webcam
• Super Speed USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet (RJ-45)
• Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0

The US Acer website lists the following models and configurations for the Aspire 5560 laptop.

$ 499 Acer Aspire AS5560-Sb835