AMD Launches Congo Ultrathin Mobile Platform

[Marcus Yam]

AMD's second generation ultrathin platform is here.

AMD Launches Congo Ultrathin Mobile Platform : Read more

 

[Kaiser_25]

Hmmm not a big AMD fan, but sounds pretty good, but no mention of price...i wonder...

 

[silversurfernhs]

they better do something, and break out big... which is what it looks like with the release of their 5 series and this notebook thing, are they ever going to recover in the top of the line processor market? I hope so, it would be nice if we could see a price drop due to competition again.

 

[mactruck]

If AMD can keep the prices down this sounds like a great alternative to the Atom/Ion platform. Hopefully we can get a comparison of Ion vs. Congo vs. Pinetrail soon as I'm looking for a cheap and light laptop in Spring of 2010.

 

[Guest]

Fantastic, I'm getting one. Atom is just too slow, but this looks perfect.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

Well, the previous yukon stuff was like $650. For that much just go to newegg, sort laptops by discrete graphics and get one at that price and you'll have something much better specs wise. Now if they manage to pull somewhere around $400-500 I think it will be worth getting.

 

[skine]

I doubt that this will be too cheap or released too soon; MSI just released a 12.1" Wind with the MV-40 and x1250, priced at $429.

 

[that_aznpride101]

AMD is breaking into a new market for more beefier "netbooks" just as Intel released their Atom mobile platform. i'm assuming AMD did their market research on consumers wanting something more speed than a netbook can offer. hopefully, AMD is correct that the economy will recover so most consumers will be able to purchase this "beefy netbook."

 

[mowston]

Hey, I thought they got rid of the "Congo" codename because of the rape, torture, and murder going on in that country for rare metals used in computers.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10267185-92.html

 

[Ciuy]

goood

 

[leafblower29]

It's great to see AMD do netbooks now.


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[skine]

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[xaira]

kmon amd show em how
its done

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

I've been waiting for Congo to launch for a while, but now that Intel is launching some cheaper consumer-level ULV Core2 notebooks I'm wonder how they stack up. Hate to say it, but AMD on notebooks has been the pits for a while now.

 

[ebattleon]

Glad to see that AMD is not dead. We really need to have choice here.

 

[Guest]

as long as the internal lcd screen gets fluid gameplay I would not object!
It would be a perfect candidate to run DX10.1 on a 1024x600 or 1280x720/800 or 1366x768 screen!

If it has enough juice to play most games on higher resolution monitors (external) that's fine, but as long as the internal LCD shows fluid gameplay, this might be interesting!

 

[Andraxxus]

You can game on it on low or medium settings nearly any game.