Next-generation AMD CPUs come to Toshiba's Satellite family

In case it wasn't completely obvious already that Toshiba had a thing for AMD's latest line of notebook processors, here's all the confirmation you need. Tosh has just made official that the next-generation of Athlon, Turion and Turion Ultra CPUs will be "available throughout" its Satellite lineup. If you're hunting specifics, we're talkin' about the P300D, A300D, M300D, U400D, L300D and L350D series -- all of which are scheduled to go on sale sometime this summer from a variety of fine retailers.

[Krush @ Jun 4th 2008 5:32PM]

Puma on HP TX convertibles anytime soon?

[Krush @ Jun 4th 2008 5:36PM]

btw ... Crysis/Blend/First/iPhone ... flame on

[atrain @ Jun 4th 2008 5:45PM]

Aha! So you think your impervious to flames do to your metal body!

Do not forget that solder melts at 183 °C. Flame on I shall. You are on your way to destruction! Mwah Ha ha!!!

[MeatPop @ Jun 4th 2008 5:56PM]

his body is partially constructed of dolemite, which cannot melt!

[Krush @ Jun 4th 2008 6:00PM]

I challenge you to a death match plastic-radio-smiley-head ... behold the awesomeness of my extenso-matic arms

[Arctic @ Jun 4th 2008 9:07PM]

Krush, im also interested in these on the HP Tx Tablets.

I wish they would release more info

[Spinnerbait @ Jun 4th 2008 6:12PM]

Much more info on the platform, here:
http://www.hothardware.com/News/AMD_Delivers_NextGen_Notebook_Platform/

[David @ Jun 4th 2008 8:44PM]

C'mon AMD... you can do it!

[loosely_coupled @ Jun 5th 2008 3:48PM]

Although Centrino is a dominant brand, and Core 2 Duo processors are going to be faster than these "Turion X2 Ultra" chips, this new AMD platform does have some advantages.

1) AMD's integrated graphics on this 'Puma' platform blow the doors off Intels lame attempt, including hardware support for HD video.

2) AMD's platform supports "hybrid graphics" or whatever it is called. This allows you to arbitrarily switch between integrated graphics and a full-power discrete GPU card, so your laptop gets both excellent battery life AND has powerful graphics when necessary.

3) Although K8 was never designed as a mobile chip, the power saving enhancements taken from Barcelona/Phenom *MAY* allow "Turion X2 Ultra" AKA "Griffin" to have a better power profile than the Core 2 Duo. That's a BIG MAYBE, I have yet to see any benchmarks.

[peter @ Aug 14th 2008 6:10PM]

i got my toshiba satellite at www.consumerdepot.com