Posted on 02/12/2009 10:47:33 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another Netbook? No, not exactly. Hewlett-Packard's new Pavilion dv2 is an ultraportable, thank you. And the new Athlon Neo silicon inside from Advanced Micro Devices will try to prove that point.
AMD is introducing new chips at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that target the no-man's land between Netbooks and notebooks. Typically, these designs are referred to as ultraportables--the most salient examples being Apple's MacBook Air, the Toshiba Portege, and the Sony Vaio TT series.
So what makes AMD's platform different? In one word, price. Ultraportables fall into the boutique category of laptops: very stylish, very slim, very light--and very expensive. Usually ranging between $1,500 and $3,000. HP's notebook with Athlon Neo silicon cuts the price in half. The Pavilion dv2 will start at $699 and top out at $899 for standard configurations.
HP 12-inch Pavilion dv2 ultraportable starts at $699, at least half the price of traditional ultraportable notebooks like the MacBook Air, Toshiba Portege, and Sony Vaio TT series.(Credit: Hewlett-Packard)
The dv2, at 3.8 pounds, is slightly heavier than ultraportables that typically weigh between 2.5 and 3 pounds. It is 0.9-inches thick, slightly thicker than more expensive ultraportables like the MacBook Air.
But the Pavilion dv2 will pack features such as an AMD-ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 separate (discrete) graphics chip, a relatively large hard disk drive (HP lists drives up to 500GB), and a 12.1-inch LED screen. Features that differentiate it from Netbooks and put it squarely into ultraportable territory.
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1600 MHz clocked K8 Lima
AMD nowadays asks superheroes to try to save its roadmap and this is how AMDs marketing came with Neo name. AMD Athlon Neo processor for Ultrathin Notebooks is the official name of the “new” CPU that AMD plans to use in, as the name suggests, Ultra thin notebooks.
This CPU is nothing more than a single core Lima based Athlon K8 re-branded again for the needs of AMD, and this re-brand is a result of a lack of strategy from Hector's management to foresee the importance of mobile market.
Intel dominates mobile market and ever since Intel came up with Merom, Core 2 generation, AMD has some serious catching up to do. Atom introduction made things even worse as now AMD has nothing to compete with this very energy efficient CPU and that is why AMD management is trashing Netbooks so loudly.
I haven’t seen the beast, but in the end it’s all about price/performance.
Oh get over yourself.
Guess what the Intel Centrino platform was? It was a Pentium III core.
Companies use word games in their marketing all the time. It's hardly a ding against AMD.
It had better be cheap, because it’s going to be slow with a 1.6 GHz single-core.
About the same as Atom, but the graphics will probably beat Intel chipsets. Other than display intensive stuff, most computers are idling.
Who was in charge when AMD released the 1GHz Athlon and beat the crap out of Intel for 4 years? They were doing great then. Then Intel got the Core2.
I think Hector was...
Except the Atom is a much lower-power solution. The Atom CPU at a higher clock plus the entire chipset (including 950 graphics) takes less power than the Neo alone. They're not really in competitive classes.
AMD really missed the mobile bus.
I am happy to say I never owned a Pentium 4 based computer. After my 486 they were all AMD while that company kicked butt for years. Now I'm on Core 2 Duo. Those darned Israeli geniuses. I have no particular love for Intel, but they do make the best product now while AMD appears to be flying blind.
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