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 64×2 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.
Both logical and inevitable.MS gets struck by “business is business”.
Since when does MS compete with AMD?
They aren’t even mentioned in the article.
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.
Don’t feel bad, I don’t think any major sites have given AMD much press about the X2. It really was a nice step up, although I still don’t think I’d choose one over a Core Duo. It would depend on the price.
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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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Half measures. Too little too late.
They should be offering Linux and Windows in a VMWare window.
I’ll just wait for that Core Duo 2 MacBook Pro.
Then I can run two great OS’s and the other one.
Is a *nix next? Dells puchace of alienware is starting to have ripple effects.