AMD Will Be in 109 New Laptops This Summer

[Pei-chen]

Like SAAB, AMD has a very small but very loud user base.

I'll see benchmarks before forming an opinion on this new AMD laptop platform. I am not the AMD fanboy I once was and won't buy it just because it says AMD. (I have bought 6 AMD CPU and 5 ATI cards in the last 10 years)

 

[Guest]

Intel is shady!....aside from PC manufactures, if Apple is smart they will start building relations with AMD and consider their products to be fitted with both AMD graphic and processing power. this will create enough revenue for AMD to build much much more in their technology department...AMD is the light, and the way!

 

[lashton]

the problem is people need to be educated that and ATI CPU with Integrated GPU is better than intel a GMA, its faster cheaper and you get better value for money, but most laptop owners dont know this shit, we need to educate people on this

 

[overclockingrocks]

I've been a die hard AMD fan since the days of the Athlon XP when it was first released. I still have one of the first XP1600's to roll off the line as it was purchased direct from AMD Canada when the best on the retail market was the XP1500. Ever since then with a few exceptions (1 desktop and 1 laptop both of which I received in trades for stuff) have been nothing but AMD based usually with ATI graphics. My original XP1600 based desktop had an FX5200 in it that I overclocked. Only reason I didn't pick ATI back then was because I was on a low budget and simply wanted a 128MB card to play UT2004 at decent settings not to mention the Radeon 9200 didn't support DX9.0 in hardware back then. Oh how times have changed. The XP1600 rig that I sunk probably $600-700 into back in high school,granted it played Doom 3 and various other top end games of the time actually pretty well, is now a a relic that I have given new life using FreeNAS and a SATA RAID card. AMD is giving Intel a run for it's money when it comes to the low cost market or just plain people that know about hardware and can see the price/performance that is being offered by an AMD/ATI combo. Still floors me though that my $600 taxes in laptop is easily in terms of sheer processing power about 6x as powerful as that old Athlon system in terms of not only a 600Mhz speed advantage per core x2 but also of course 4GB of newer DDR2 and a heck of a lot better graphics technology. Moore's law never ceases to amaze me

 

[anamaniac]

I want a PIIx6 laptop...
They've made 35W x6 server chips, why can't they make a decent mobile chip already?
I'm getting a i7-720QM laptop soon, but I'd love a high end mobile AMD CPU offering to matched with the 5870m it has.

AMD, please don't disappoint. You have a lot of nice desktop offerings, but I feel your mobile segment is severely lacking. For this round, you have won my money for a mobile GPU, but Intel won the money for the CPU.

 

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]They've made 35W x6 server chips, why can't they make a decent mobile chip already?[/citation]

Server is going to out perform your desktop in core, L2/L3 cache and RAM. Same will be true when comparing desktop to laptop systems. The fact that the mobile CPU market is focusing on power consumption over most other factors will severely limit core count. If you really want a 6 core laptop you'll be waiting a very long time.

 

[kelemvor4]

I'd consider a laptop with an amd cpu and chip-set, but in my experience, amd (ATI) gpu's are terrible (HD 3400 in my HP Elitebook for example). Might as well just use a net-book or smart phone unless you don't need any video performance.

The nvidia gt230m's in my pavilion dv8q's work pretty well. I wouldn't mind seeing something with an amd cpu and this gpu(or similar).

 

[user 18]

ATI does have some good contenders in graphics, but so do Intel & Nvidia. I personally like ATI/AMD graphics, but I wouldn't buy a different computer based on a GPU alone.

For the best performance, although I am an AMD fan, I do have to say that Intel CPUs are better. Even so, in both the desktop and laptop market, AMD has managed to include some great CPUs at very competitive prices.