Stop the presses! AMD has
kept to its roadmap. Alright, start the presses up again. The Tigris laptop platform, announced today, is all set to become AMD's "mainstream" weapon of choice, with the centrally touted features being full 1080p, DirectX 10.1 support and offloading video encoding to the Radeon HD 4200 GPU. Add in the new 45nm dual core Caspian CPUs, with speeds ranging up to 2.6GHz, and the result is a substantial 42 percent improvement in multimedia performance to go along with 25 percent longer battery life. Alas, that'll still only net you an hour and 55 minutes of "active use" and just under five hours in idle, according to AMD. The
Congo, offering the same HD video and DX10.1 support, does a little better at two hours 26 minutes of utility, thanks to its HD 3200 and dual core Neo chips inside. That'll hardly trouble Intel's CULV range of
marathon runners, but then Intel's processors don't pack quite as much grunt. AMD's own Pat Moorehead got to test drive laptops based on the two new platforms and was enraptured by their raw, snarling power. Of course, he
would be. The majority of OEMs have signed up for this party, with models expected to arrive in time for the release of
Windows 7.
[Via
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posted Sep 10th 2009 5:04AM
amd always have better names than intel
I don't know, Atom is cool, and I prefer Nvidia's ION and Tegra. It is all a matter of opinion.
Uh... Nvidia puts out Tegra so AMD puts out Tigris?
We all know AMD is playing catch-up on... well, just about every possible level, but come on.
Ahh, it's a laptop with chairs on it... I see now...
That would be completely badass if that were real.
"Honey could Delete? I can't reach it to shut down our laptop"
Lol, made me do a double take cuz I missed that completely. Only glanced at the image initially.
DON'T STEP ON THE CAPSLOCK KEY
"In the futures, we'll ALL ride around on our laptops in a colorful vortex of HD multimedia, with no cares in the world! FTW!"
- Overexcited AMD spokesperson.
So while not netbook chips they look good as laptop chips. Will be interesting to see these in the wild
Looks like a pretty good step up!
After owning an Acer One 1.6GHz Atom, which wouldn't last 1.5hours and couldn't playback most YouTube videos, i'm not going anywhere near netbooks again. To be fair to it, it did run cool and was very cheap.
The biggest selling point of this new platform is ATI 4200, those IGP's are fantastic! Had the 3200 on my old motherboard, it handled everything with ease! Would probably go AMD over Intel just for that. Intel platforms get 9400M, but my experience with that chipset in the Macbook Pro has put me off Nvidia for life.
Anyway, if i ever bother with an ultra-portable again it will have to be CULV or Neo :)
Acer sucks. I have a HP Mini and the battery with WiFi on last for a solid 2 hours, with WiFi turned off it last just under 4 hours -- running Windows 7 and has 3 cell battery.
What is wrong with 9400M? everyone is praising it?
I always found it hilarious alot of the Netbooks failed to deliver the battery life they promised. It brings in sales, but like UMP's and Palm devices, it will eventually fall by the wayside.
I don't understand the Acer Aspire One hate. Mine can run youtube and stuff like that fine and usually has a 2 1/2 battery life with the standard battery, I did end up getting a 9 cell battery for it though and now I can get around 6 hours without needing to charge it.
My mom would have smacked me upside the head if I ever sat that close to the screen.
I hope AMD makes a comback. Their chips are always cheaper.
Integrated HD 4200's already eh? Things are getting out of control! We need to make better resolution monitors that are cost effective to keep up, ATI and Nvidia have beaten 1080p to death already!
Hooray for technology!
I LOL'ed when i read the disclaimer at the bottom of Pat Moorheaad's blog:
Pat Moorhead is Vice President of Advanced Marketing at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.
Standard corporate giberrish. Hilarity, fearsomeness and size varies from company to company.
Ok, then I'll wait before buying a new laptop. Just to avoid intel.
All we need are a few reviews and benchmarks.
So, I can watch 1080p, but the battery won't last through a whole movie?
That is awesome.
welcome to 3/4 cell batteries
Art hit the nail on the head.
Anyone know which microarchitecture the processors are based on?
I was wondering the same thing... Based on all the info I can find, these are FINALLY K10 (45nm) mobile parts. The processors are called "Turion II" / "Athlon II", and are codenamed "Caspian" with the "stars" core.
Let's hope that AMD can get some sales moving (especially with the integrated ATI GPU) before Intel's 32nm dual-core Nehalem parts come out in 4-5 months..
Let them play there catch on game at the end of the day consumers are always the winner in this game :)
hp has released a whole slew of laptops with amd's newest chips. best buy even has a few of them, one is the dv6 with a 2.2ghz turion ll, the other is the new dm3 with a 1.6ghz dual core neo. best buy also lists a toshiba with an m300(amd athlon ll 2.0ghz). looks like amd is finaly getting competitive with intel, just when i7 has started getting traction. current i7 chips are 45w so they aren't going into anything but the beefiest "mainstream" notebooks.