Acer Aspire 5551G, 5553G and 7551G keep the Phenom II X3 and X4 leaks flowing

Ah, now we get it. Clearly AMD has a few mobile chips in the backroom that it has yet to inform us about, and unfortunately for the fine folks in Sunnyvale, it seems as if their partner firms aren't being quite so hush-hush. Just hours after discovering a quad-core Phenom II X4 within Dell's new Inspiron M501R, along comes a spate of Acer Aspire machines with -- you guessed it -- Phenom II X4 and X3 chips within. The 15.6-inch 5551G / 5553G and 17.3-inch 7551G are all listed now at Amazon's German portal, with the X3 N830 clocked at 2.1GHz and the X4 N930 chip humming along at an even 2GHz. The cheapest of the bunch is listed at right around €668 ($870), though you'll have to dig into that source link for specifics. Fret not -- we get the impression that each of these will be headed stateside just as soon as AMD sees fit to officially unveil its not-so-secret stash of new silicon.

[Thanks, TheLostSwede]

[thisisit Posted May 4th 2010 7:25PM]

I want my 10GHz laptop right now!!!

[Tothamax Posted May 4th 2010 10:28PM]

@thisisit
Then tell Intel to make 22 nm single core chips that run at 10 GHz.

[brrip Posted May 4th 2010 7:28PM]

Following Gadget Death week, it's Leak week again.

[TheAmazingWJV Posted May 4th 2010 7:41PM]

@brrip Still mourning the Courier. Farewell to a dear friendship that never was.

[TheAmazingWJV Posted May 4th 2010 7:38PM]

I don't get it. Is the only difference between the X3 and the x4 0.1 Ghz?

[silentrebel Posted May 4th 2010 7:42PM]

@TheAmazingWJV
AMD makes both quad core and tri core processors. i think the X3 might just be a quad with one core disabled. idk but i do know that AMD does advertise as having tricore processors. intel only makes single,dual and quad and six core.

[Jonny Posted May 4th 2010 7:42PM]

@TheAmazingWJV

X3 - 3 Cores.

X4 - 4 Cores.

[TheAmazingWJV Posted May 4th 2010 7:48PM]

@Jonny Thanks to both, that makes sense.

[Streetfights Posted May 4th 2010 7:52PM]

@TheAmazingWJV

The x3s are just X4s that aren't fully functional, usually they're on the edge of the wafer, or one core can't quite handle the voltage or whatnot. Then they disable it, and sell it for cheaper

[chandler Posted May 4th 2010 8:06PM]

As an owner of one of AMD's first dual-core laptops, I'm looking forward to this, particularly the 45 minutes of battery life and smoldering pile of ash where my pants used to be.

[The Shadow Posted May 4th 2010 9:14PM]

@chandler

[Johnny Rockets Posted May 5th 2010 1:38AM]

Please use a "laptop" tag on laptop articles! :)