[citation][nom]poppasmurf[/nom]Wow lets do some justice here guys! What did you do hire Simmon from American idol? You know he is gone from there now, guess no one wants doom and gloom in such a negative way huh?Ok readers, the early APU's were never slated towards gamers first off! And I believe they are supposed to be between a netbook and a laptop it just so happens that it can play some light gaming like many other similar units albeit low res. bottom line question is does it do surfing and play back at a high res. at the same time with no glitches and light office work as well? The answer is hell yes!My beef with TH: Your question should be before writing a article did it do what they said it would do? And are they cheaper than Intels similar units that claim the same thing as stated above! Not the flippin GAMES performance! Write your article off the hardware manufactures claims not what a consumer wants it to do with it, they did not design it! Did AMD say, these units will be a gamers delight? um....no!Now the functionality or the appearance of a unit is not AMD's, Intels, ARM etc. fault so why start off an article with appearance? At times in some of your article's TH you directed your disapproval of the design towards the manufacture of the unit, I think your format should change. Are you not a tech/hardware site first? I agree design is important but...please it is like the job interview first impressions thing and man it was hard to read through all the negative remarks on appearance alone! Personally surface, color, texture and sparkle is for a dog and pony show in my own opinion that blind sides the true core value of anything beauty is only skin deep. How about you do a split review on all units starting with what is inside first than rip the manufacture on THERE design and cost? This will not give the tech inside a black eye unless it needs it !!!Sorry for the rant just gets under my skin when things get buried under a dog and pony show and misconceived as either a bad thing or good thing I guess I'm asking for unbiased and fair reviews with true blame pointed in the right direction. Not much to ask for is it.[/citation]
My name is Andrew. At least that's what my mother tells me. No Simon here.
In any case, I believe this is a blame that cuts 50-50. I can't fault AMD for poor notebook designs. However, I can fault the company for poor marketing. That's part of what went wrong here. Second of all, the fact that Brazos is used in 15.6" full-sized notebook is partly AMD's fault when they tell OEMs "oh yeah your customers will love this."
I don't think that unfair to AMD or the OEM. Second appearance, feel, uniformity, all these things are important for a notebook. I
never fault any of the notebooks here for those points alone. The idea that anyone buys a notebook solely on performance is kind of silly. Remember the Hypersonics? My god some of those were poorly constructed. Performance good. Notebook not so good.
I rip on both AMD and OEMs because its ultimately the fault of both. When you sell a chip to an OEM, you force them to have a price baseline. It's not different than if Intel had sold Atom to OEMs for 300 a piece and customers the had to pay 600 for a netbook. You can bet I would be the first to light a torch!
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