Toshiba NB550D netbook spills specs, including 1GHz AMD Ontario APU and Harman Kardon sound

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Looks like the AMD Fusion netbook strategy may be to supplant Intel's
Atom wholesale in the leadup to CES, as Toshiba has just become the
second manufacturer to swap out an Atom chip for a 1GHz AMD C-50
Ontario APU while leaving the rest of the design practically
untouched. Notebook Italia just spotted this 10-inch Toshiba NB550D
having a grand old time on the company's German website, leisurely
flexing its Harman Kardon speakers and newfound HDMI port, all the
while dreaming about ways to upgrade its scant 1GB of DDR3 memory and
250GB of magnetic storage. Interestingly, Toshiba's actually
forecasting only 9.5 hours of battery life for the AMD version
(compared to 10 hours with Intel's 1.5GHz Atom N550 CPU), but we
suppose that's the price you pay to have Radeon HD 6250M graphics on
board. We'll try to get pricing and availability when we inevitably
spot it at CES next week.