Following its recent partnership with AMD to put the latter's chip in its server product line, Dell Computer confirmed this week that it will launch AMD-based laptops as early as October. The move could deal another blow to rival Intel. Dell will release mobile computers running AMD's Sempron and Turion 64x2 processors in early October, representatives from both AMD and Dell, told CNET Taiwan. Initial plans will target consumer models equipped with 15.4-inch displays. 
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I like AMD in the desktop, sever, and workstation markets, but they've always had mediocre offerings in the mobile area. With Core and Core 2, I thought that Intel had widened the gap.
However, I wondered into a couple brick-and-mortar retailers in the US (BestBuy and Circuit City), and AMD-based laptops were all over the display shelves. They didn't vastly outnumber the Intel notebooks, but they represented somewhere around half of the retail space. I was quite surprised.
I haven't been reading my Anandtech much recently, and I wasn't aware that Turion 64 X2 was a big step for AMD. Maybe it isn't, but the market seems impressed, in any case.
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The Turion/TurionX2 is rather good - a quite good performance and consumptionlevel - it's only one small step after Intel. The one and true handicap is the lack of an Centrino-look-a-like program.
The centrino brand and certification are the monster weapons on the mobile market - on which AMD have been unable to respond, due to its open approach.
Now AMD are capable of creating that weapon, since ATI makes very-very good graphics and motherboard chipsets.
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