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AMD is scheduling to liberate its longed-for Puma laptop platform at Computex Taipei this month. The Puma platform will comprise a latest Griffin processor and AMDs 780M chipset. The Griffin central processing unit has 2 cores and is developed on elder Turion K8 processors. It has been purposely designed for laptop use with enhanced power management. Features comprise 2MB or more of L2 cache (1MB per core), and every core can sprint at a diverse frequency. The Puma platform will have Hyper-Transport 3 and DDR2-667/800 memory sustain. The 780M chipset will attribute DirectX 10 incorporated graphics. The incorporated graphics will labor in concurrence with an isolated graphics card (if available) to facilitate lower power burning up; the isolated GPU will merely be used when considered necessary.

MSI has launched a 12.1 inch notebook called MSI L2100-036US. The notebook has better specifications than a conventional netbook and comes with an affordable price point.

The new MSI L2100-036US runs on a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor with 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard disk drive. The graphics option is an ATI Radeon X1250 discrete GPU.

The 12.1 inch display features 1366 x 768 pixels resolution. There is an HDMI port for transferring video to an external monitor. Other features include WiFi 802.11b/g/n, 3 USB 2.0 ports, audio in/out, a multi-card reader and VGA. The machine weighs 3.2lbs. It currently sells for $459.99 with Windows 7.

The Turion Ultra is the 1st processor AMD has considered exclusively for the mobile market; former Turions were essentially Athlon 64s and Athlon 64 X2s with thermal characteristics superior enough to make it in notebooks. Yet the Turion Ultra, while its cores are essentially unaffected from desktop Athlon 64 X2s, has inherited a few architectural refinements from AMDs Phenom processors, together with Hyper Transport 3.0. Furthermore, the Turion Ultra proffers finer grained clock rate control as well as tolerating it to clock the cores separately of one another. Its also capable to animatedly scale the Hyper Transport as required, resulting in a processor that can act in response specifically as required to workloads.

More enhancements comprise an augment of processor cache from 1MB of L2 cache to 2MB (L2 cache is essentially RAM built onto a processor) and hold up for up to DDR2-800. By themselves, these may not affix up too much, but while memory velocity has historically been for the most part insignificant to Intels Core processors, it has had an additional quantifiable collision on AMDs dual cores. Regrettably, the TDP (Thermal Design Power) hasnt distorted from presented Turions: the Turion Ultras arrangement tops out at 35W, precisely the same wattage as its predecessors and accurately the same wattage as its Intel opposition, though it bears declaring Intel and AMD measure TDP in a different way. Given the enhanced power-saving characteristics, the Turion Ultra ought to offer at least slightly superior battery life to on hand Turion X2s, but it may not be competent to compete with Intels Core 2 Duos in recital or battery life. Still, its an enhancement in an era where CPU power is already at a coarse excess.

Hewlett Packard presented a mew model on basis of the new AMD Neo platform beside the HP mini 2140 with Intel an atom processor also. The counterpart to Intel is the atom clocks likewise with 1.6 GHz. Whether the new platform can maintain ground against Intel the atom,different analyzes will show soon.

The exact name of this processor is AMD Athlon Neo MV-40. Similar to Dell Inspiron mini 12, this one possesses the HP Pavilion dv2 12.1 tariff with a large screen and a dissolution amounts to usual 1,280 x of 800 pixels. Another big advantage is the dedicated diagram map. Here HP trusts in a ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410. The optimum configuration that consists 500 GB to four GB DDR2 RAM and a large non removable disk. WLAN in the N-standard, a Bluetooth connection and the mandatory Webcam are the only features missing at this one.

Also an external Blue ray drive assembly will be available for the start. Suitably for this HP Pavilion dv2 version is the HDMI exit. Further connections: Three of USB haven and ever a VGA and a LAN connection.

Battery life can last up to 3.5 hours,what can be said is a very good thing that a notebook should have. The weight reaches proud 1.9 kilograms.

Prices start at 520 Euros for the entry-level model. If you want to get all the best features of this notebook you will need to pay an extra 150 Euros.

AMD processors are known for delivering high performance, but they aren’t necessarily energy efficient. While they are ideal for powering huge desktop replacement laptops, they just can’t be used in netbooks and ultraportables which are expected to give excellent battery life. Needless to say AMD processors are seldom used in low cost notebooks and netbooks. But now 11 and 12 inch laptops with Intel CULV processors are getting popular and AMD has realized that it just can’t ignore this territory.

The company soon plans to release its next generation of chips aimed at thin and light computers. The new chips are part of AMD’s third-generation Nile platform. They are expected to start shipping in 2010 and 2011. AMD claims that the new chips could give 7 or more hours of battery life in ultraportables. AMD is also making new Bobcat chips for netbooks and ultrathin notebooks.